[Illustration: “_I will return soon, sweet mother._” (Page 18)] [Illustration: Title Page] The Moon Princess A FAIRY TALE BY EDITH OGDEN HARRISON Author of _PRINCE SILVERWINGS & THE STAR FAIRIES_ _With Illustrations in Color & Other Drawings by Lucy Fitch Perkins_ CHICAGO A. C. M^cClurg & Co. 1905 Copyright A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1905 Published October 7, 1905 The Lakeside Press R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY CHICAGO [Illustration: Fairy] _TO C. H. H._ MY MOST APPRECIATIVE READER CONTENTS [Illustration: (unlabelled)] PAGE CHAPTER I How the Moon Princess Came to the Earth 13 CHAPTER II How the Wedding Guests Visited the Caves of Ocean 23 CHAPTER III How the Fairies Were Changed into Mocking-birds 30 CHAPTER IV The Little Dwellers in the Marsh 45 CHAPTER V The Rainbow Sisters 51 CHAPTER VI How the Sun Princess Came to the Earth 74 CHAPTER VII The Story of the Jewelled Beach 91 CHAPTER VIII The Lost Ocean 112 CHAPTER IX The Story of Princess Sunset 128 CHAPTER X How the Moon Princess was Taken Captive by the Black Dwarf 147 CHAPTER XI How the Sun Prince Rescued the Moon Princess 154 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS [Illustration: (unlabelled)]