From the Land of the Snow-Pearls: Tales from Puget Sound

FROM THE LAND OF THE SNOW-PEARLS
TALES FROM PUGET SOUND
By Ella Higginson.
NEW YORK The Macmillan Company London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. 1902
Copyright, 1896, by THE CALVERT COMPANY
Copyright, 1897, by THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
TO RUSSELL CARDEN HIGGINSON
Some of the stories in this book appeared originally in McClure’s , Lippincott’s , Leslie’s Weekly , Short Stories , The Black Cat and The New Peterson . I am indebted to the publishers of those periodicals for the kind permission to reprint them.
E. H.
This book was first published under the title of “The Flower that Grew in the Sand.” To the present edition, two stories have been added.
The Publishers.
Puget Sound lies in its emerald setting like a great blue sapphire, which at sunset, draws to its breast all the marvelous and splendid coloring of the fire-opal. Around it, shining through their rose-colored mists like pearls upon the soft blue or green of the sky, are linked the great snow-mountains, so beautiful and so dear, that those who love this land with a proud and passionate love, have come to think of it, fondly and poetically, as “the land of the snow-pearls.”