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 Flower Fables

 by

 Louisa May Alcott

            "Pondering shadows, colors, clouds
 Grass-buds, and caterpillar shrouds
 Boughs on which the wild bees settle,
 Tints that spot the violet's petal."
 EMERSON'S WOOD-NOTES.
 

 TO
 ELLEN EMERSON,
 FOR WHOM THEY WERE FANCIED,
 THESE FLOWER FABLES
 ARE INSCRIBED,
 BY HER FRIEND,

            THE AUTHOR.
 

            Boston, Dec. 9, 1854.

 Contents

            The Frost King: or, The Power of Love
 Eva's Visit to Fairy-Land
 The Flower's Lesson
 Lily-Bell and Thistledown
 Little Bud
 Clover-Blossom
 Little Annie's Dream: or, The Fairy Flower
 Ripple, the Water-Spirit
 Fairy Song