Note 1 — The Polite Coal Burner.1
Willard Henry Myers translation
From Norway we have a similar story, by Faye, Norske Folkesagn, which relates that a wood nymph one time attended a dance, where she had as partner a young man, who, when he observed the bushy appendage, said genteelly, “My beautiful lady, you are losing your garter,” which so pleased the nymph that she rewarded him bountifully with gold and other riches. ↑