but lived in the summer on whortleberries, and in winter on nuts and apples, of which he had great store in the woods.  Finally, he invited his new acquaintance to accompany him home and partake his hospitality, an offer which the youth was on the point of accepting, and was just going to spring across the brook (which if he had done, says Elizabeth, the dwarf would certainly have torn him in pieces), when his foot was arrested by the voice of his companion, who thought he had tarried long, and on looking round again, “the wee brown man was fled.”  The story adds that he was imprudent enough to slight the admonition, and to sport over the moors on his way homewards, but soon after his return he fell into a lingering disorder, and died within the year’” (Scott).

302.  Our moonlight circle’s.  The Ms. has “Our fairy ringlet’s.”

306.  The fairies’ fatal green.  “As the Daoine Shi’, or Men of Peace, wore green habits, they were supposed to take offence when any mortals ventured to assume their favorite color.  Indeed, from some reason, which has been, perhaps originally a general superstition, green is held in Scotland to be unlucky to particular tribes and counties.  The Caithness men, who hold this belief, allege as a reason that their bands wore that color when they were cut off at the battle of Flodden; and for the same reason they avoid crossing the Ord on a Monday, being the day of the week on which their ill-omened array set forth.  Green is also disliked by those of the name of Ogilvy; but more especially it is held fatal to the whole clan of Grahame.  It is remembered of an aged gentleman of that name that when his horse fell in a fox-chase, he accounted for it at once by observing that the whipcord attached to his lash was of this unlucky color” (Scott).

308.  Wert christened man.  Scott says:  “The Elves were supposed greatly to envy the privileges acquired by Christian initiation, and they gave to those mortals who had fallen into their power a certain precedence, founded upon this advantageous distinction.  Tamlane, in the old ballad, describes his own rank in the fairy procession: 

    ’For I ride on a milk-white steed,
      And aye nearest the town;
    Because I was a christen’d knight,
      They give me that renown.’”

312.  The curse of the sleepless eye.  Cf.  Macbeth, i. 3. 19: 

   “Sleep shall neither night nor day
     Hang upon his pent-house lid,” etc.

313.  Part.  Depart.  See on ii. 94 above.

322.  Grisly.  See on i. 704 above.

330.  Kindly.  Kindred, natural.  See Wb., and cf.  Shakespeare, Much Ado, iv. 1. 75: 

     “that fatherly and kindly power
    That you have in her,” etc.