{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/prwe/prwe027.htm","path":"neu/celt/prwe/prwe027.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/prwe/prwe027.htm","text":"A NATIVE PIGSEY STORY.\n\" 'YE see that 'ere hoss there?\" said a Liskeard farmer to a West-Country miner.\n\"What ov it?\" asked the miner.\n\"Well, that 'ere hoss he 'n been ridden to death a'most by the pigsies again.\"\n\"Pigsies!\" said the miner; \"thee don't b'leve in they, do 'ee?\"\n\"Ees I do; but I specks you 're a West-Country bucca, ain't 'ee? It you 'd a had yourn hosses wrode to death every riite, you 'd tell another tayl, I reckon. But as sure as I 'se living the pigsies do ride on 'em whenever they 'ye a mind to.\"","title":"The Fairies: A Native Pigsey Story","type":"page"}