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LAYS AND LEGENDS
(SECOND SERIES)

BY
E. NESBIT
(Mrs. Hubert Bland)

AUTHOR OF "LAYS AND LEGENDS," "LEAVES OF LIFE,"
ETC.

WITH PORTRAIT

LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16th STREET
1892

[All Rights reserved]

My thanks are due to the Editors and Publishers who
have kindly allowed me to use here verses written
for them.

TO

ALICE HOATSON,

HELEN MACKLIN,

AND

CHARLOTTE WILSON,

In token of indebtment.

ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY PRESS