Fairy Tales from Gold Lands

BY MAY WENTWORTH.
List to these legends quaint and old,
Tales of the marvelous land of gold,
Rich in its mines of shining ore,
Rich in romance and mystic lore;
List to these tales, they come onto thee,
From over the waters—the boundless sea.
NEW YORK: A. ROMAN & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. SAN FRANCISCO: 417 & 419 MONTGOMERY STREET. 1868.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, BY A. ROMAN & COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
TO CHILDREN EVERYWHERE, A Merry Christmas TO YOU ALL, WITH MUCH LOVE, I DEDICATE THESE STORIES, ESPECIALLY TO MY LITTLE NIECE AND NEPHEW, Mamie and Wentworth. MAY WENTWORTH.

As a child, I was fond of stories, and well remember the dearth of the intermediate season, when Jack the Giant Killer, had ceased to please, and I was yet unprepared to enjoy works written for older and more cultivated minds. Children require stories ingeniously written, with a pleasant tinge of romance about them to fix their attention, and a touch of pathos that goes to the heart, to make them good and happy.