Melchior's Dream and Other Tales

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Melchior's Dream and Other Tales by Juliana Horatia Ewing This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Melchior's Dream and Other Tales Author: Juliana Horatia Ewing Release Date: August 17, 2005 [EBook #16540] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MELCHIOR'S DREAM AND OTHER TALES *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Sankar Viswanathan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [1] MELCHIOR'S DREAM AND OTHER TALES. BY JULIANA HORATIA EWING. LONDON: SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE, Northumberland Avenue, W.C. NEW YORK: E. & J.B. YOUNG & CO. [Published under the direction of the General Literature Committee.] [5] Dedicated TO FOUR BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. [6] CONTENTS. PAGE Melchior's Dream 9 The Blackbird's Nest 51 Friedrich's Ballad 66 A Bit of Green 118 Monsieur the Viscount's Friend 134 The Yew-lane Ghosts 188 A Bad Habit 236 A Happy Family 261 [7] EDITOR'S PREFACE. It is always a memorable era in a mother's life when she first introduces a daughter into society.