Cornish Fairies

Margaret Ann Courtney relates this story:

Mr Cornish, the Town Clerk of Penzance, mentioned at an antiquarian meeting recently held in that town, 'that there was a brownie still existing in it; that a gentleman, whose opinion he would take on many matters, had told him that he had often seen it, sitting quietly at the fireside.'

Courtney, Cornish Feasts and Folk-lore, page 123.