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Title: In Apple-Blossom Time
A Fairy-Tale to Date

Author: Clara Louise Burnham

Release Date: March 25, 2007 [eBook #20901]

Language: English

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IN APPLE-BLOSSOM TIME

A Fairy-Tale to Date

by

CLARA LOUISE BURNHAM

With Illustrations

Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
The Riverside Press Cambridge
Copyright, 1919, by Clara Louise Burnham
All Rights Reserved

[Illustration: Lifted the Girl in after it]

CONTENTS

I. The Princess

II. The Ogre

III. The Prince

IV. The Good Fairy

V. The New Help

VI. The Dwarf

VII. A Midnight Message

VIII. The Meadow

IX. The Bird of Prey

X. The Palace

XI. Mother and Son

XII. The Transformation

XIII. The Goddess

XIV. The Mermaid Shop

XV. The Clouds Disperse

XVI. Apple Blossoms

ILLUSTRATIONS

_Drawn by B. Morgan Dennis_

Lifted the Girl in after it

Tingling with the Increasing Desire to knock down his Host
and catch this Girl up in his Arms

"Geraldine Melody belongs to me. Her father gave her to me"

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

In the Order of their Appearance

The Good Fairy _Mehitable Upton_

The Princess _Geraldine Melody_

The Ogre _Rufus Carder_

The Dwarf _Pete_

The Slave _Mrs. Carder_

The Prince _Benjamin Barry_

The Grouch _Charlotte Whipp_

The Que