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                               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.




                               THE MERMAN
                                  AND
                            THE FIGURE-HEAD.




                               CONTENTS.


                               CHAPTER I.
                                                                    PAGE
  The Sea-Nymph                                                        7

                               CHAPTER II.
  The Sea Kingdom                                                     28

                               CHAPTER III.
  The Figure-head                                                     52

                               CHAPTER IV.
  The Bewitched Lover                                                 74

                                CHAPTER V.
  The Sea-Nymphs                                                      90

                               CHAPTER VI.
  Lucy Peabody’s Dream                                               103




                               THE MERMAN
                                  AND
                            THE FIGURE-HEAD.




                               CHAPTER I.
                            _THE SEA-NYMPH._


  “I may be wrong, but I think it a pity
  For a movable doll to