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In Apple-Blossom Time
A Fairy-Tale to Date
By Clara Louise Burnham
With Illustrations
Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY CLARA LOUISE BURNHAM
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
"Lifted the Girl in after it"
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
CHAPTER I. The Princess
CHAPTER II. The Ogre
CHAPTER III. The Prince
CHAPTER IV. The Good Fairy
CHAPTER V. The New Help
CHAPTER VI. The Dwarf
CHAPTER VII. A Midnight Message
CHAPTER VIII. The Meadow
CHAPTER IX. The Bird of Prey
CHAPTER X. The Palace
CHAPTER XI. Mother and Son
CHAPTER XII. The Transformation
CHAPTER XIII. The Goddess
CHAPTER XIV. The Mermaid Shop
CHAPTER XV. The Clouds Disperse
CHAPTER XVI. Apple Blossoms
By Clara Louise Burnham
ILLUSTRATIONS
Drawn by B. Morgan Dennis
Tingling with the Increasing Desire to knock down his Host and catchthis Girl up in his Arms
"Geraldine Melody belongs to me. Her father gave her to me"
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 forthe summer trade. She had a little shop at the fashionable resort ofKeefeport as well as one in the village of Keefe, and June wasapproaching. It would soon be t