LULU'S LIBRARY.

BY

LOUISA M. ALCOTT,

AUTHOR OF "LITTLE WOMEN," "AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL," "LITTLE MEN," "EIGHT
COUSINS," "ROSE IN BLOOM," "UNDER THE LILACS," "JACK AND JILL," "JO'S
BOYS," "HOSPITAL SKETCHES," "WORK, A STORY OF EXPERIENCE," "MOODS, A
NOVEL," "PROVERB STORIES," "SILVER PITCHERS," "SPINNING-WHEEL STORIES,"
"AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG."

Vol. II.

BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY,
1901.

Copyright, 1887,
By Louisa M. Alcott.


University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

TO

ELLEN T. EMERSON,

ONE OF THE GOOD FAIRIES WHO STILL REMAIN TO US,
BELOVED BY POETS, LITTLE CHILDREN, AND
MANY GRATEFUL HEARTS,

This Book

IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED

BY HER OLD FRIEND,

L. M. ALCOTT.

June, 1887.

PREFACE.

Most of these stories were written at sixteen for my younger sisters andtheir playmates, the little Emersons and Channings, and appeared someyears later under the name of "Flower Fables." With some additions theyare now republished for the amusement of those children's children bytheir old friend,

L. M. ALCOTT.
June, 1887.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

I. The Frost King and how the Fairies conquered him 7

II. Lilybell and Thistledown, or the Fairy Sleeping Beauty 25

III. Ripple, the Water Sprite 50

IV. Eva's Visit to Fairyland 68

V. Sunshine, and her Brothers and Sisters 91

VI. The Fairy Spring 101

VII. Queen Aster 122

VIII. The Brownie and the Princess 135

IX. Mermaids ...