The Little Colonel's Knight Comes Riding

Works of ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON
L. C. PAGE & COMPANY 200 Summer Street Boston, Mass.

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
And sometimes in the mirror blue, The knights come riding, two by two. The Lady of Shalott.
BOSTON L. C. PAGE & COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1907 By L. C. Page & Company ———m—— (INCORPORATED) ———m—— Entered at Stationers' Hall, London All rights reserved First impression, October, 1907 Second impression, April, 1909 COLONIAL PRESS Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. Boston, U. S. A.

THE HANGING OF THE MIRROR
It was a June morning in Kentucky. The doctor's nephew coming at a gallop down the pike into Lloydsboro Valley, reined his horse to a walk as he reached the railroad crossing, and leaning forward in his saddle, hesitated a moment between the two roads.
The one along the railroad embankment was sweet with a tangle of wild honeysuckle, and led straight to the little post-office where his morning mail awaited him. The other would take him a mile out of his way, but it was through a thick beech woods, and the cool leafage of its green aisles tempted him. A red-bird darting on ahead suddenly decided his course, for following some quick impulse, as if the cardinal wings had beckoned him, he turned off the highway into the woods.
I might as well go around and have a look at that Lindsey Cabin, he said to himself, as an excuse for turning aside. If it's in as good shape as I think it is, maybe I can persuade the Van Allens to rent it for the summer. It's a pity to have a picturesque place like that standing empty when it has such possibilities for hospitality, and the Van Allen girls a positive genius for giving jolly house-parties. To get that family out to Lloydsboro for the summer would be paving the way to no end of good times.