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 256 An Evening in the SQUiRtf? Kitchets. " Of course, that must have been the brownie sure enough," said the smith ; " for he hasn't got any thumbs, and hes hairy on his fists—F ve never shaken hands with him, but I've heard say so ; and wc all know he minds the horses, and is about the best stable' boy you could have. There are a great many he is very useful to ; but it's not only he that may be useful to the farmers, for up in Ullensaker," he said, as he began a new story, " there was a man who once found the fairies just as useful to him as the brownie is to others. He li ved on Rogli farm, and knew well enough that the