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Show - Irish Folklore A picturesque touch of Irish folklore folk-lore hubpn introduced by -Aline CaldweH. in "Top o' the Mornln'," when Grtrude Quintan, as the gov-erness, gov-erness, JDs -the -child In' her charge, "The lonrechawp will get you if jou don't gojto sleep." ' The 'ypprechawn," it seems, is an Irish ffry figure that is familiar to every Itnsh-born -boy or g-Irl. - They appear to) various guises in all tales of follclom and Hit daintily as thistledown thistle-down town songs and "granny tales" doar to the hearts of tho children, chil-dren, jj A lenMchawn- Is a tiny little "ma-nean" "ma-nean" ojfrut six or eight Inches tall, who Itf,A' fairy shoemaker, and who generally eanltti ,a "hammer -and last, or even $ an infinltessimal shoe, on which Hp, labors as he sings, half-soling half-soling pr heeling the fairy footgear for LhoJfeancors and gambols of the "littto pSbple." Sometimes he stops long enough to take a 'ghaugh" of his "dhddeen," or to whistle a wlerd, beautlfujHune to charm the passerby. passer-by. ' . , |