THE HAUNTED POOL (LA MARE AU DIABLE)

NOTICE.

WHEN I began, with "The Haunted Pool," a series of rustic tales which I purposed collecting under the title of "Tales of a Hemp-Dresser," I had no system, no design of revolutionizing literature. No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions, especially in the arts, which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand. But this is not applicable to the romance of rural manners: it has existed in all ages and in a...