ジョン・ミリングトン・シング著姉崎正見訳「アラン島」（２０）

　「或る百姓が收穫は駄目になるし、牛は死んでしまふし、大へん困つてゐた。或る晩、妻に明日の朝までに小麥の新しい立派な袋を作つてくれと云つた。それが出來ると、それを持つて、夜明けを待たないで出發した。
　その頃、妖精に連れて行かれた紳士がゐて、妖精の中で大將になり、夜明けと夕方に、白馬に騎つて行くのを人人はよく見かけた。
　件の男は、いつも大將に逢ふ處に行き、かれが馬に乘つて通りかかつた時、大へん困つてゐるから、小麥粉を二百五十ほど貸してもらひたいと願つた。
　大將は妖精たちを小麥の藏つてある岩穴から呼び出し、望むだけをその男に與へるやうに命じた。そして一年經つたらまた此處へ來て、金を拂つてくれと云つて、馬に乘つて行つてしまつた。
　男は家に歸り、その期日を紙に書き留めた。そして翌年のその日に、又もとの所へ行つて、大將に支拂つた。」
　此の話を終つた時、爺さんは、妖精は國中の産物全體の十分の一を持つてゐて、それを岩の中に藏つておくのだと云つた。

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'A farmer was in great distress as his crops had failed, and his cow had died on him. One night he told his wife to make him a fine new sack for flour before the next morning; and when it was finished he started off with it before the dawn.
'At that time there was a gentleman who had been taken by the fairies, and made an officer among them, and it was often people would see him and him riding on a white horse at dawn and in the evening.
'The poor man went down to the place where they used to see the officer, and when he came by on his horse, he asked the loan of two hundred and a half of flour, for he was in great want.
'The officer called the fairies out of a hole in the rocks where they stored their wheat, and told them to give the poor man what he was asking. Then he told him to come back and pay him in a year, and rode away.
'When the poor man got home he wrote down the day on a piece of paper, and that day year he came back and paid the officer.'
When he had ended his story the old man told me that the fairies have a tenth of all the produce of the country, and make stores of it in the rocks.

［やぶちゃん注：老婆心ながら、「藏つて」は「しまつて」と訓じる。］