Little Woods

May-Day, Old Style and New Style

In Memoriam, Margaret Gatty

Tales of the Khoja (_from the Turkish_)

The Snarling Princess (_adapted from the German_)

The Little Parsnip-Man (_adapted from the German_)

A Child's Wishes (_from the German of R. Reinick_)

War and the Dead (_from the French of Jean Macé_)




THE MYSTERY OF THE BLOODY HAND.


CHAPTER I.

A MEMORABLE NEW YEAR'S DAY.


_Dorothy to Eleanor_,