Excerpt from The Strange Adventures of Little Snowdrop: And Other Tales When the cold winter was changing into spring, and the primroses and violets were appearing in the fields and hedges, May Elton was born. 'What a tiny thing she is!' said her father, gazing at her in delight; 'my first little darling, my sweet spring snowdrop.' And as May grew older she was so fair and delicate that she kept the name her father had given her, and was known to her friends as little Snowdrop. Snowdrop was an only child, and was surrounded from her birth with every luxury that money could procure. But still she was often lonely, and pined for a brother or sister to share her games and pleasures. 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.