NATALIE;
or,
A GEM AMONG THE SEA-WEEDS

By

FERNA VALE

1859

To thee, my darling Hattie, I dedicate the Sea-Flower would that this casket contained for such as thou, a purer gem.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

In writing the following pages the author has spent pleasant hours, which perhaps might have been less profitably employed: if anything of interest be found among them, it is well,--and, should any be led to take up their Cross in meekness and humility, searching out the path that leads the wanderer home, it is indeed well.