Fairies and things

Now most o' ye know that fairies mostly live in Ireland, but many of them live in other places. I would like to tell ye o' a fairy that lives in many places but is very little known...

They're a very small kind of fairy, about the size of a small book, but there are hundreds of thousands of them so it makes little difference, to them at least. They live in little boroughs in the ground, for even though they have wings, they cannot fly. (It is a common misconception that all fairies can fly, for, as I said, some can't.) They only come out when it's cold for they are a very warm blooded people. Every night, when it is cold enough to suit them, they come forth at midnight and dance. They will dance in groups or by themselves, but as they do so many, many little diamonds fall off of their clothes and out of their hair and land wherever they happen to be dancing. They will dance for hours without tiring, but a few minutes before the sun comes up, they hurry back to their boroughs to sleep all day.

And when the sun comes up and sees all the diamonds, he reaches out his golden fingers to take them, but as soon as he touches them, they turn to water.

However, if ye get up early enough before the sun is quite up, the world seems to sparkle and glitter, almost as if fairies had been while we slept and sprinkled magic diamonds on everything.