The Legend of the Bleeding-heart

Author of The Little Colonel Series, Big Brother, Joel: A Boy of Galilee, Keeping Tryst, etc.
BOSTON L. C. PAGE & COMPANY 1907
Copyright, 1900 By L. C. Page & Company (INCORPORATED)
Copyright, 1907 By L. C. Page & Company (INCORPORATED)
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First Impression, July, 1907
COLONIAL PRESS Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. Boston, U. S. A.

In days of old, when all things in the Wood had speech, there lived within its depths a lone Flax-spinner. She was a bent old creature, and ill to look upon, but all the tongues of all the forest leaves were ever kept a-wagging with the story of her
kindly deeds. And even to this day they sometimes whisper low among themselves (because they fain would hold in mind so sweet a tale) the story of her kindness to the little orphan, Olga.
'Twas no slight task the old Flax-spinner took upon herself, the day she brought the helpless child to share the shelter of her thatch.
The Oak outside her door held up his arms in solemn protest.