Journey with Story - A Storytelling Podcast for Kids
Aug 20, 2026 · 17 min · 11 segments
When the lady of the house falls ill, all of her servants refuse to go and fetch the nurse because they are afraid of meeting the brownie (a type of Scottish fairy) who lives in the glen, and so the…
It was named for the glen which it stood on the edge of, and which anyone who wanted to visit the farm had to travel through.
This fairy never appeared to anyone in the daytime, but was sometimes glimpsed at night, stealing about like an ungainly shadow from tree to tree.
Like all brownies who are properly treated and let alone, he would do any kind of work around the farm in return for a bowl of milk for his supper.
The farmer often said that he did not know what he would do without the brownie, for if there was any work to be finished in a hurry at the farm, corn to thrash or winnow, turnips to cut, clothes to wash, or a garden to be weeded, all that the farmer and his wife had to do was to leave the door of the barn or the turnip shed or the milk house open when they went to bed, and put down a bowl of new milk on the doorstep.
And when they woke the next morning, the bowl would be empty and the job finished better than if it had been done by mortal hands.
In spite of all this, however, everyone about the farm was afraid of the brownie and would rather go a couple of miles roundabout in the dark than pass through the glen and run the risk of catching a glimpse of him.
Only one person on the farm didn't fear the brownie, and that was the farmer's wife.
So when the brownie's supper had to be left outside, she always filled his bowl with the richest milk and added a good spoonful of cream to it, for she said, "Ah, he works so hard for us and asks no wages, and he well deserves the very best meal that we can give him." One night, this gentle lady was taken very ill, and everyone was afraid she was going to die.
It was named for the glen which it stood on the edge of, and which anyone who wanted to visit the farm had to travel through.
This fairy never appeared to anyone in the daytime, but was sometimes glimpsed at night, stealing about like an ungainly shadow from tree to tree.
Like all brownies who are properly treated and let alone, he would do any kind of work around the farm in return for a bowl of milk for his supper.
The farmer often said that he did not know what he would do without the brownie, for if there was any work to be finished in a hurry at the farm, corn to thrash or winnow, turnips to cut, clothes to wash, or a garden to be weeded, all that the farmer and his wife had to do was to leave the door of the barn or the turnip shed or the milk house open when they went to bed, and put down a bowl of new milk on the doorstep.
And when they woke the next morning, the bowl would be empty and the job finished better than if it had been done by mortal hands.
In spite of all this, however, everyone about the farm was afraid of the brownie and would rather go a couple of miles roundabout in the dark than pass through the glen and run the risk of catching a glimpse of him.
Only one person on the farm didn't fear the brownie, and that was the farmer's wife.
So when the brownie's supper had to be left outside, she always filled his bowl with the richest milk and added a good spoonful of cream to it, for she said, "Ah, he works so hard for us and asks no wages, and he well deserves the very best meal that we can give him." One night, this gentle lady was taken very ill, and everyone was afraid she was going to die.
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