[Illustration: “The Toad Woman stopped fanning and looked at her.” _Frontispiece._ Page 125.] ADVENTURES IN SHADOW-LAND. CONTAINING EVA’S ADVENTURES IN SHADOW-LAND. BY MARY D. NAUMAN. AND THE MERMAN AND THE FIGURE-HEAD. BY CLARA F. GUERNSEY. TWO VOLUMES IN ONE. _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS._ PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. 1874. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. LIPPINCOTT’S PRESS, PHILADELPHIA. EVA’S ADVENTURES IN SHADOW-LAND. TO MY FRIEND E. W. [Illustration] CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE WHAT EVA SAW IN THE POND 9 CHAPTER II. EVA’S FIRST ADVENTURE 15 CHAPTER III. THE GIFT OF THE FOUNTAIN 23 CHAPTER IV. THE FIRST MOONRISE 30 CHAPTER V. WHAT ASTER WAS 36 CHAPTER VI. THE BEGINNING OF THE SEARCH 45 CHAPTER VII. ASTER’S MISFORTUNES 52 CHAPTER VIII. WHAT ASTER DID 63 CHAPTER IX. THE DOOR IN THE WALL 73 CHAPTER X. THE VALLEY OF REST 80 CHAPTER XI. THE MAGIC BOAT 92 CHAPTER XII. DOWN THE BROOK 104 CHAPTER XIII. THE ENCHANTED RIVER 119 CHAPTER XIV. THE GREEN FROG 130 CHAPTER XV. IN THE GROTTO 145 CHAPTER XVI. ASTER’S STORY 151 CHAPTER XVII. THE LAST OF SHADOW-LAND 162 [Illustration] [Illustration] EVA’S ADVENTURES IN SHADOW-LAND. CHAPTER I. _WHAT EVA SAW IN THE POND._ She had been reading fairy-tales, after her lessons were done, all the morning; and now that dinner was over, her father gone to his office, the baby asleep, and her mother sitting quietly sewing in the cool parlor, Eva thought that she would go down across the field to the old mill-pond; and sit in the grass, and make a fairy-tale for herself. There was nothing that Eva liked better than to go and sit in the tall grass; grass so tall that when the child, in her white dress, looped on her plump white shoulders with blue ribbons, her bright golden curls brushed back from her fair brow, and her blue eyes sparkling, sat down in it, you could not see her until you were near her, and then it was just as if you had found a picture of a little girl in a frame, or rather a nest of soft, green grass.