...But the Brownie, although, like Milton's lubbar fiend, he loves to stretch himself by the fire,1 does not drudge from the hope of recompense. On the contrary,...but particularly of food, infallibly occasions his disappear* ' how the drudging goblin swet, To earn the cream-bowl, duly set ; When, in one night, ere...

...thought might be acceptable to the family to whose service he had devoted himself. But the Brownie does not drudge from the hope of recompense. On the contrary,...food, infallibly occasions his disappearance for ever. It is told of a Brownie, who haunted a Border family now extinct, that the lady having fallen unexpectedly...