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Strange Roads apparent good faith, talked of seeing fairies in their daily walks.

"Is it," I said, "some kind of symbolism? Or what do they mean?"

"What should they mean," said young Mr. Geraldine, "but the truth? Can't you see the fairies when you want to? I've only to wish, to see them; and I've often seen them sitting on the stone walls by the mountain roads in Galway."

And then again: Six years ago I was in Belfast. I was on a journalistic mission connected with the Ulster movement, which was perplexing and threatening in the