LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| PAGE | |
| "Malcolm went on cutting" | [Frontispiece] |
| "'Oh, run and get it, quick, Davy,' she cried" | [35] |
| "She sorted the ribbons and examined the gloves" | [59] |
| "Betty began the story" | [83] |
| "'I'm glad that I don't have to live in the country the year round!'" | [110] |
| "There was one wild scream after another" | [167] |
| "'But we caught the chickens and brought them back!'" | [228] |
| "'Let's all sit down on the steps'" | [255] |
THE LITTLE COLONEL'S™; HOUSE
PARTY.
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.