“Why be thee out this way?!” the cry came from round the bend and it came from a bantam, crook legged man with a party of three in his stead. The little man guffed and scolded her. Although loose kin, his folk and the tall people didst not mingle. The woods woman and her child scoured for tinder for their hearth and were greatly surprised. The bawbling man warned her of coming through these parts of the underwood alone and unaided. Since the dwindling of men in these parts, whe'r by their hands or not the Pooka folk had join and laid claim to these woods and a sharp and heed some eye was needed at all times.

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