THE LAND OF FANCY

STORIES
OF
ENCHANTMENT

BY
JANE PENTZER MYERS

ILLUSTRATED BY
HARRIET ROOSEVELT RICHARDS

CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1901

Copyright
By A. C. McClurg & Co.
A.D. 1901

TO KATE WINIFRED.

Just between the “Land o’ Dreams” and broad daylight is a beautifulworld: where good wishes come true: where the poor and the lonely arerich in castles and friends: and where sorrowful folk are happy.

There you may hear the birds singing and children laughing, all daylong. 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 sometimesseen the sheen of angels’ wings.

On the borders of this land the real and the unreal are so strangelyblended 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.

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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

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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The pipe changed into a strange flower 21...