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Excerpt from The Adventures of a Brownie, as Told to My Child
I said you were not likely to see him. I never did, certainly, and never knew any body that did but still, if you were to go into Devonshire, you would hear many funny stories about Brownies in general, and so I may as well tell you the adventures of this particular Brownie, who belonged to a family there; which family he had followed from house to house, most faithfully, for years and years.
A good many people had heard him - or supposed they had when there were extraordinary noises about the house; noises which must have come from a mouse or a rat - or a Brownie. But nobody had ever seen him except the children - the three little boys and three little girls - who declared he often came to play with them when they were alone, and was the nicest companion in the world, though he was such an old man - hundreds of years old! He was full of fun and mischief, and up to all sorts of tricks, but he never did any body any harm unless they deserved it.
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