CONTENTS

CHAPTER I[Night and Morning]
CHAPTER II[Apples and Nuts]
CHAPTER III[It is Hildegarde]
CHAPTER IV[On the Way]
CHAPTER V['What's o'Clock?']
CHAPTER VI[Gnomeland]
CHAPTER VII[A Collation under Difficulties]
CHAPTER VIII[Tree-Top Land]
CHAPTER IX[A Concert]
CHAPTER X[The Blue-Silk Room]
CHAPTER XI['The Unselfish Mermaid']
CHAPTER XII['The Unselfish Mermaid' (continued)]

[ILLUSTRATIONS]

[Vignette]
[The Unselfish Mermaid]
["Take these," she said, "for good luck"]
[Portrait of Hildegarde]
["I must give you one or two warnings"]
[Manufacturing Lucky Pennies]
["Who sent you to kiss us, you breezes of May"]
[The Unselfish Mermaid]

[CHAPTER I]

NIGHT AND MORNING

The way was long.
Lay of the Last Minstrel.