The Little Colonels House Party

The Little Colonel's House Party

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Title: The Little Colonel's House Party
Author: Annie Fellows Johnston
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THE LITTLE COLONEL'S HOUSE PARTY
by
ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON
Author of "The Little Colonel," "Two Little Knights of Kentucky," "The Story of Dago," etc.
Illustrated by Louis Meynell
Boston L. C. Page and Company Publishers Colonial Press Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. Boston. Mass., U.S.A.
1907

[Illustration]

* * * * *
Works of
Annie Fellows Johnston
The Little Colonel Series
Each one vol., large 12mo, cloth, illustrated
The Little Colonel Stories $1.50
(Containing in one volume the three stories, "The Little Colonel," "The Giant Scissors," and "Two Little Knights of Kentucky.")
The Little Colonel's House Party 1.50 The Little Colonel's Holidays 1.50 The Little Colonel's Hero 1.50 The Little Colonel at Boarding-School 1.50 The Little Colonel in Arizona 1.50 The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation 1.50 The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor 1.50 The above 8 vols., boxed 12.00
Illustrated Holiday Editions
Each one vol., small quarto, cloth, illustrated, and printed in color
The Little Colonel $1.25 The Giant Scissors 1.25 Two Little Knights of Kentucky 1.25 The above 3 vols., boxed 3.75
Cosy Corner Series
Each one vol., thin 12mo, cloth, illustrated
The Little Colonel $.50 The Giant Scissors .50 Two Little Knights of Kentucky .50 Big Brother .50 Ole Mammy's Torment .50 The Story of Dago .50 Cicely .50 Aunt 'Liza's Hero .50 The Quilt that Jack Built .50 Flip's "Islands of Providence" .50 Mildred's Inheritance .50
Other Books
Joel: A Boy of Galilee $1.50 In the Desert of Waiting .50 The Three Weavers .50 Keeping Tryst .50 Asa Holmes 1.00 Songs Ysame (Poems, with Albion Fellows Bacon) 1.00
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[Illustration: "MALCOLM WENT ON CUTTING."
(See
Chapter IX.
Her Sacred Promise)]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I. THE INVITATIONS ARE SENT
II. "ONE FLEW INTO THE CUCKOO'S NEST"
III. "ONE FLEW EAST"
IV. "ONE FLEW WEST"
V. BETTY REACHES THE "HOUSE BEAUTIFUL"
VI. THE ENCHANTED NECKLACE
VII. BITS FROM BETTY'S DIARY
VIII. THE GYPSY FORTUNE-TELLER
IX. HER SACRED PROMISE
X. FOUND OUT
XI. SOME STORIES AND A POEM
XII. A PILLOW-CASE PARTY
XIII. MORE MEASLES
XIV. A LONG NIGHT
XV. "THE ROAD OF THE LOVING HEART"
XVI. A FEAST OF LANTERNS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"MALCOLM WENT ON CUTTING" (Frontispiece)
"'OH, RUN AND GET IT, QUICK, DAVY,' SHE CRIED"
"SHE SORTED THE RIBBONS AND EXAMINED THE GLOVES"
"BETTY BEGAN THE STORY"
"'I'M GLAD THAT I DON'T HAVE TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY THE YEAR ROUND!'"
"THERE WAS ONE WILD SCREAM AFTER ANOTHER"
"'BUT WE CAUGHT THE CHICKENS AND BROUGHT THEM BACK!'"
"'LET'S ALL SIT DOWN ON THE STEPS'"

CHAPTER I.
THE INVITATIONS ARE SENT.
Down the long avenue that led from the house to the great entrance gate came the Little Colonel on her pony. It was a sweet, white way that morning, filled with the breath of the locusts; white overhead where the giant trees locked branches to make an arch of bloom nearly a quarter of a mile in length, and white underneath where the fallen blossoms lay like scattered snowflakes along the path.
Everybody, in Lloydsboro Valley knew Locust. "It is one of the prettiest places in all Kentucky," they were fond of saying, and every visitor to the Valley was taken past the great entrance gate to admire the long rows of stately old trees, and the great stone house at the end, whose pillars gleamed white through the Virginia creeper that nearly covered it.
Everybody knew old Colonel Lloyd, too, the owner of the place. He also was often pointed out to the summer visitors. Some people called attention to him because he was an old Confederate soldier who had given his good right arm to the cause he loved, some because they thought he resembled Napoleon, and others because they had some amusing tale to tell of the eccentric things he had said or done.
Nearly every one who pointed out the imposing figure, which was clad always in white duck or linen in the summer, and wrapped in a picturesque military cape in winter, added the remark: "And he is the Little Colonel's grandfather." To be the grandfather of such an attractive little bunch of mischief as Lloyd Sherman was when she first came to the Valley was a distinction of which any man might well be proud, and Colonel Lloyd was proud of it. He was proud of the fact that she had inherited his lordly manner, his hot temper,