LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| The Duck Hunt (See [page 168]) | [Frontispiece] |
| "She Proceeded with a joyful heart to paint the African lion" | [51] |
| "'We allee samee lak Chinamen,' he said" | [94] |
| "'I thought we'd nevah, nevah get heah!'" | [128] |
| "Enjoying every moment of the sunny afternoon" | [162] |
| "She leaned over to offer him the little basket" | [209] |
| "He was holding out both forefingers" | [244] |
| "Clattering down the road as fast as his feet could carry him" | [279] |
THE
LITTLE COLONEL IN ARIZONA
CHAPTER I.
MARY TELLS ALL SHE KNOWS
"Joyce," said Jack Ware, stopping beside his sister's seat in the long, Western-bound train, "I wish you'd go back into the observation-car, and make Mary stop talking. She's telling all she knows to a couple of strangers."
"Why don't you do it?" asked Joyce, looking up from her magazine with a teasing smile. "That dignified scowl of yours ought to frighten anything into silence."