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The Little Colonel's Holidays

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Johnston Annie F (Annie Fellows)

دار النشر: Project Gutenberg

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VI. Molly's Story 74 VII. A Feast of Sails 91 VIII. Eugenia Joins the Search 105 IX. Left Behind 116 X. Home-lessons and Jack-o'-lanterns 129 XI. A Hallowe'en Party 146 XII. The Home of a Hero 164 XIII. The Day after Thanksgiving 180 XIV. Lloyd Makes a Discovery 200 XV. A Happy Christmas 216 XVI. A Peep into the Future 231

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

	PAGE
"Aunt Cindy darted an angry look at her sworn enemy" (see page 25)	Frontispiece
"To their excited fancy she seemed a real witch"	57
"The picture passed around the circle"	103
"The plan worked like a charm"	130
"She began the old rhyme"	159
The Butterfly Carnival	183
"'Oh, what is your name?'"	208
"The little hand held hers"	226

THE LITTLE COLONEL'S
(Trade Mark)
HOLIDAYS.

CHAPTER I.

THE MAGIC KETTLE.

Once upon a time, so the story goes (you may read it for yourself in the dear old tales of Hans Christian Andersen), there was a prince who disguised himself as a swineherd. It was to gain admittance to a beautiful princess that he thus came in disguise to her father's palace, and to attract her attention he made a magic caldron, hung around with strings of silver bells. Whenever the water in the caldron boiled and bubbled, the bells rang a little tune to remind her of him.

"Oh, thou dear Augustine,
All is lost and gone,"

they sang. Such was the power of the magic kettle, that when the water bubbled hard enough to set the bells a-tinkling, any one holding his hand in the steam could smell what was cooking in every kitchen in the kingdom.

It has been many a year since the swineherd's kettle was set a-boiling and its string of bells a-jingling to satisfy the curiosity of a princess, but a time has come for it to be used again. Not that anybody nowadays cares to know what his neighbour is going to have for dinner, but all the little princes and princesses in the kingdom want to know what happened next.

"What happened after the Little Colonel's house party?" they demand, and they send letters to the Valley by the score, asking "Did Betty go blind?" "Did the two little Knights of Kentucky ever meet Joyce again or find the Gate of the Giant Scissors?" Did the Little Colonel ever have any more good times at Locust, or did Eugenia ever forget that she too had started out to build a Road of the Loving Heart?

It would be impossible to answer all these questions through the post-office, so that is why the