Excerpt from Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition: Folk and Hero Tales The following Folk Tales, forming a volume by themselves, have been included in the series Of Wazfi and Strays of Celtic Tradition, through the kindness Of my friend, the Reverend D. Macinnes, who has made over the entire collection for this purpose. Efforts were made to secure the first nine tales Of this collection for the late John F. Campbell, Of lslay, but they were unsuccessful. When these Tales were narrated, as they were, without a hesitation in their recital, the narrator was in his seventy-fourth year. Like many others possessing fairy-lore, he has passed away within the last few years; and it is probable that before long the land will be ransacked in vain for the legendary folk-lore or for the fairy lore pure and simple with which it once was teeming. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.