This charming ballad was composed a few years since, by Mr. Wiffen, a member of the Society of

Friends, and was published originally in one of the London Annuals. It is founded on a popular supers ition, and a family tradition. The Musgraves of Eden-Hall in Cumberland, preserve to this day an old drinking glass, enamelled in colours, said to have been seized by one of their ancestors from a company of fairies, who were sporting in a garden. After an ineffectual struggle to recover Lit, the fairies are said to have vanished into thin air, repeating the refrain,

" If that glass do break or fall,

Farewell the luck of Eden-Hall."