The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor

(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 Little Colonel's Knight Comes Riding 1.50 The above 9 vols., boxed 13.50 In Preparation —A New Little Colonel Book 1.50 The Little Colonel Good Times Book 1.50 Illustrated Holiday Editions Each one vol., small quarto, cloth, illustrated, and printed in colour The Little Colonel $1.25 The Giant Scissors 1.25 Two Little Knights of Kentucky 1.25 Big Brother 1.25 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 The Legend of the Bleeding Heart .50 Asa Holmes 1.00 Songs Ysame (Poems, with Albion Fellows Bacon) 1.00 L. C. PAGE & COMPANY 200 Summer Street Boston, Mass. The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor By ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON Author of "The Little Colonel Series," "Big Brother," "Ole Mammy's Torment," "Joel: A Boy of Galilee," "Asa Holmes," etc. Illustrated by ETHELDRED B. BARRY BOSTON * L. C. PAGE & COMPANY * PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1906 By L. C. Page & Company (INCORPORATED) Entered at Stationers' Hall, London All rights reserved First Impression, October, 1906 Third Impression, August, 1907 Fourth Impression, April, 1908 Fifth Impression, March, 1909 Sixth Impression, February, 1910 CONTENTS I. At Warwick Hall 1 II. At Ware's Wigwam 19 III. In Beauty's Quest 31 IV. Mary's "Promised Land" 43 V. At "The Locusts" 58 VI. The Fox and the Stork 70 VII. The Coming of the Bride 88 VIII. At the Beeches 113 IX. "Something Blue" 136 X. "A Coon Hunt" 158 XI. The Four-leaved Clover 178 XII. The Wedding 198 XIII. Dreams and Warnings 216 XIV. A Second Maid of Honor 241 XV. The End of the House-party 258 XVI. The Golden Leaf of Honor 275 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS page "Lloyd ... took…