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First Impression, July, 1907
Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, U. S. A.




IN MEMORY
OF THE ONES THAT GREW
SO LONG AGO,
IN OLD "Aunt Nancy's" GARDEN.




The Legend of the Bleeding-heart




In days of old, when all things in the Wood had speech, there lived
within its depths a lone Flax-spinner. She was a bent old creature, and
ill to look upon, but all the tongues of all the forest leaves were ever
kept a-wagging with the story of her kindly deeds. And even to this day
they sometimes whisper low among themselves (because they fain would
hold in mind so sweet a tale) the story of her kindness to the little
orphan, Olga.