DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
In the Order of their Appearance
| The Good Fairy | Mehitable Upton |
| The Princess | Geraldine Melody |
| The Ogre | Rufus Carder |
| The Dwarf | Pete |
| The Slave | Mrs. Carder |
| The Prince | Benjamin Barry |
| The Grouch | Charlotte Whipp |
| The Queen | Mrs. Barry |
IN APPLE-BLOSSOM TIME
CHAPTER I
The Princess
Miss Mehitable Upton had come to the city to buy a stock of goods for the summer trade. She had a little shop at the fashionable resort of Keefeport as well as one in the village of Keefe, and June was approaching. It would soon be time to move.