From MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE




Contents


The Birthmark
Young Goodman Brown
Rappaccini's Daughter
Mrs. Bullfrog
The Celestial Railroad
The Procession of Life
Feathertop: A Moralized Legend
Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent
Drowne's Wooden Image
Roger Malvin's Burial
The Artist of the Beautiful




FROM MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE


THE BIRTHMARK

In the latter part of the last century there lived a man of
science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural