Hawthorne recalls an old woman who sat by the kitchen fire of the house where he was born, telling stories that mixed a hundred years of village memory. Her tale is of David and Esther, who fall asleep by a spring and dream the same dream: the ghosts of the old townsfolk walking by moonlight, and a secret about hidden treasure.
One of Hawthorne’s earliest tales, a small, eerie seed of his later New England romances. Download the free EPUB.