LIST OF COLOURED PLATES.

[The Farmer's Wife,]		Frontispiece.
	After a Drawing by Edmund Dulac.

[The Beehives,]		Page 19
	After a Drawing by Gilbert James.

[My Lady Spring,]		37
	After a Drawing by Margaret E. Thompson.

[The Evening Hour,]		55
	After a Drawing by Edmund Dulac.

[In the Early Days,]		73
	After a Drawing by John Hassall.

[The Dragon-fly and the Water-lily,]		91
	After a Drawing by Marie Webb.

[The Farmer and His Boys,]		97
	After a Drawing by Gilbert James.

[Preparing for Flight,]		107
	After a Drawing by Carton Moore Park.

	Illustrative Borders, Headpieces, Etc.

A DEDICATION.

(After CARL EWALD.)

We strayed, thy little hand in mine,
One summer morning fresh and fine,
In a wood where birches met;
A great sun-bonnet served as frame
To rounded childish cheeks aflame—
Thy voice is ringing yet!
Of birdies' songs, of flowers, of trees—
Whate'er thy tender mind could seize—
I wove thee tales, my pet:
Ah, thou canst not remember it,
And I can ne'er forget!

And now my locks are thin and gray,
For years since then have slipped away,
For gladness or regret!
And ah, the woods where now I roam,
And those wide chambers of my home,
Know thee no more, Ninette!
Since I shall never find thee then,
Oh, let this Book remind thee then
Of a wood where birches met:
For thou canst not remember it,
And I can ne'er forget!

EWALD'S DANISH NATURE STORIES.

Series I.