PREFACE.
Most of these stories were written at sixteen for my younger sisters and their playmates, the little Emersons and Channings, and appeared some years later under the name of "Flower Fables." With some additions they are now republished for the amusement of those children's children by their old friend,
L. M. ALCOTT.
June, 1887.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
I. The Frost King and how the Fairies conquered him [7]
II. Lilybell and Thistledown, or the Fairy Sleeping Beauty [25]
III. Ripple, the Water Sprite [50]
IV. Eva's Visit to Fairyland [68]
V. Sunshine, and her Brothers and Sisters [91]
VI. The Fairy Spring [101]
VII. Queen Aster [122]
VIII. The Brownie and the Princess [135]
IX. Mermaids [173]
X. Little Bud [203]
XI. The Flower's Story [243]
Instead of dying in her cell, the fairy had made it beautiful.—Page 13.