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...further particulars respecting this subject, see Dr. Rees on Fairy Rings. By moonshine, do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms ." The following story is well known in Carmarthenshire : — a farmer going out one morning very early...

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