"Mary's Meadow," centers on a family embroiled in a dispute over a tract of land separating their property from the neighbor's. Although the meadow is a worthless nuisance in the eyes of the adults, it's a fantastical wonderland in the imaginations of thirteen-year-old Mary and her troop of younger siblings.

Excerpt from Mary's Meadow and Other Tales of Fields and Flowers How fresh, 0 Lord, how sweet and clean Are Thy returns ev'n as the flowers in spring To which, besides their own demean, The late-past frosts tributes of pleasure bring. Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"Mary's Meadow, and Other Tales of Fields and Flowers" by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing is a collection of tales that take the drama and intrigue of everyday life and weave them into heartwarming stories for audiences of all ages. This volume contains: Mary's Meadow, Letters from a Little Garden, Garden Lore, Sunflowers and a Rushlight, Dandelion Clocks, The Trinity Flower, and Ladders to Heaven.