Page "Cottingley Fairies" Paragraph 25

By now Elsie and Frances were tired of the whole fairy business.

Years later Elsie looked at a photograph of herself and Frances taken with Hodson and said: " Look at that, fed up with fairies!

" Both Elsie and Frances later admitted that they " played along " with Hodson " out of mischief ", and that they considered him " a fake ".