E-text prepared by Stephen Hope, Fox in the Stars, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date By Clara Louise Burnham 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 Lifted the Girl in after it Tingling with the Increasing Desire to knock down his Host and catch this Girl up in his Arms "Geraldine Melody belongs to me. Her father gave her to me" DRAMATIS PERSONÆ In the Order of their Appearance