Just between the “Land o’ Dreams” and broad daylight is a beautiful world: where good wishes come true: where the poor and the lonely are rich in castles and friends: and where sorrowful folk are happy.
There you may hear the birds singing and children laughing, all day long. The trees are full of blossoms and fruit. The sky is always blue, the grass green and soft.
Under the trees dwell the fairies, and against the blue sky is sometimes seen the sheen of angels’ wings.
On the borders of this land the real and the unreal are so strangely blended that children are puzzled to know where the boundary lies.
Just across its borders blooms the little white ghost-flower.
It is for you, little girl.
J. P. M.
CONTENTS.
Page I. [The Ghost Flower, or the White Blackbird] 11 II. [The Little Yellow Moccasins] 31 III. [The Little Ghost who Laughed] 45 IV. [Titania’s Maid of Honor] 71 V. [Bran, the Wolf Dog] 89 VI. [The Corn Fairy] 111 VII. [At the Wayside Cross] 125 VIII. [In Quest of the Dark] 133 IX. [The King will hunt To-day] 149 X. [He was a Prince] 161 XI. [Where the River hides its Pearls] 187 XII. [The Mist Lady] 205