: Lob Lie-By-The-Fire The Brownies and Other Tales by Ewing Juliana Horatia Baden Frances Henshaw Contributor - Conduct of life Juvenile fiction; Children Conduct of life Juvenile fiction

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Page LOB LIE-BY-THE-FIRE, OR THE LUCK OF 5 LINGBOROUGH TIMOTHY'S SHOES 61 OLD FATHER CHRISTMAS 85 BENJY IN BEASTLAND 98 THE PEACE-EGG 121 THE BROWNIES 142 THE LAND OF LOST TOYS 179 THREE CHRISTMAS-TREES 204 AN IDYL OF THE WOOD 213 CHRISTMAS CRACKERS 224 AMELIA AND THE DWARFS 244

Also included at the end of this book: SPOONS by Frances Henshaw Baden

LOB LIE-BY-THE-FIRE.

INTRODUCTORY.

Lob Lie-by-the-fire--the Lubber-fiend, as Milton calls him--is a rough kind of Brownie or House Elf, supposed to haunt some north-country homesteads, where he does the work of the farm laborers, for no grander wages than

"--to earn his cream-bowl duly set."

Not that he is insensible of the pleasures of rest, for

"--When, in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-laborers could not end, Then lies him down the Lubber-fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength."

It was said that a Lob Lie-by-the-fire once haunted the little old Hall at Lingborough. It was an old stone house on the Borders, and seemed to have got its tints from the gray skies that hung above it. It was cold-looking without, but cosy within, "like a north-country heart," said Miss Kitty, who was a woman of sentiment, and kept a common-place book.

It was long before Miss Kitty's time that Lob Lie-by-the-fire first came to Lingborough. Why and whence he came is not recorded, nor when and wherefore he withdrew his valuable help, which, as wages rose, and prices rose also, would have been more welcome than ever.

This tale professes not to record more of him than comes within the memory of man.

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