The Gold Of Fairnilee
By Andrew Lang
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Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang (March, 31, 1844 – July 20, 1912) was a Scottish writer and literary critic who is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. Lang’s academic interests extended beyond the literary and he was a noted contributor to the fields of anthropology, folklore, psychical research, history, and classic scholarship, as well as the inspiration for the University of St. Andrew’s Andrew Lang Lectures. A prolific author, Lang published more than 100 works during his career, including twelve fairy books, in which he compiled folk and fairy tales from around the world. Lang’s Lilac Fairy and Red Fairy books are credited with influencing J. R. R. Tolkien, who commented on the importance of fairy stories in the modern world in his 1939 Andrew Lang Lecture “On Fairy-Stories.”
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The Gold Of Fairnilee - Andrew Lang
THE GOLD OF FAIRNILEE
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Andrew Lang
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.—The Old House
CHAPTER II.—How Randal’s Father Came Home
CHAPTER III.—How Jean was brought to Fairnlee
CHAPTER IV.—Randal and Jean.
CHAPTER V.—The Good Folk
CHAPTER VI.—The Wishing Well
CHAPTER VII.—Where is Randal?
CHAPTER VIII.—The Ill Years
CHAPTER IX.—The White Roses
CHAPTER X.—Out of fairyland
CHAPTER XI.—The Fairy Bottle
CHAPTER XII.—At the Catrail
The Gold Of Fairnilee
By
Andrew Lang
The Gold Of Fairnilee
Published by Mythik Press
New York City, NY
First published circa 1912
Copyright © Mythik Press, 2015
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CHAPTER I.—THE OLD HOUSE
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YOU MAY STILL SEE THE old Scotch house where Randal was born, so long ago. Nobody lives there now. Most of the roof has fallen in, there is no glass in the windows, and all the doors are open. They were open in the days of Randal’s father—nearly four hundred years have passed since then—and everyone who came was welcome to his share of beef and broth and ale. But now the doors are not only open, they are quite gone, and there is nobody within to give you a welcome.
So there is nothing but emptiness in the old house where Randal lived with Jean, three hundred and sixty years or so before you were born. It is a high old house, and wide, with the broken slates still on the roof. At the corner there are little round towers, like pepperboxes, with sharp peaks. The stems of the ivy that covers the walls are as thick as trees. There are many trees crowding all round, and there are hills round it too; and far below you hear the Tweed whispering all day. The house is called Fairnilee, which means the Fairies’ Field;
for people believed in fairies, as you shall hear, when Randal was a boy, and even when my father was a boy.
Randal was all alone in the house when he was a little fellow—alone with his mother, and Nancy the old nurse, and Simon Grieve the butler, who wore a black velvet coat and a big silver chain. Then there were the maids, and the grooms, and the farm folk, who were all friends of Randal’s. He was not lonely, and he did not feel unhappy, even before Jean came, as you shall be told. But the grown-up people were sad and silent at Fairnilee. Randal had no father; his mother, Lady Ker, was a widow. She was still quite young, and Randal thought her the most beautiful person in the world. Children think these things about their mothers, and Randal had seen no ladies but his mother only. She had brown hair and brown eyes and red lips, and a grave kind face, which looked serious under her great white widow’s cap with the black hood over it. Randal never saw his mother cry; but when he was