Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE LITTLE COLONEL AT

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Works of

ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON

The Little Colonel Series
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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 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

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Big Brother 1.25

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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

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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
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L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
200 Summer Street Boston, Mass.

(_See page 300_)]

The Little Colonel at Boarding-School

By ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON Author of "The Little Colonel Series," "Big Brother," "Ole Mammy's Torment," "Asa Holmes," etc.

Illustrated by ETHELDRED B. BARRY

"_This learned I from the shadow of a tree,
Which to and fro did sway upon a wall,
Our shadow selves--our influence--may fall
Where we can never be._"

BOSTON * L. C. PAGE
& COMPANY * PUBLISHERS

_Copyright, 1903_
BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)

_All rights reserved_

Published, July, 1903

Thirteenth Impression, March, 1909

TO
All the Girls
WHO, LIKE THE LITTLE COLONEL,
ARE
"STANDING WITH RELUCTANT FEET
WHERE THE BROOK AND RIVER MEET,
WOMANHOOD AND CHILDHOOD SWEET."

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. OFF TO BOARDING-SCHOOL 11
II. A NEW FRIEND 27
III. IDA'S SECRET 48
IV. THE SHADOW CLUB 69
V. AT THE BEECHES 89
VI. UNINVITED GUESTS 101
VII. THE HALLOWE'EN MASQUERADE 123
VIII. THE PRINCESS OF THE PENDULUM 139
IX. ONE RAINY AFTERNOON 158
X. A PLOT 176
XI. A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING 190
XII. GHOST OR GIRL 213
XIII. THE SHADOW CLUB IN DISGRACE 228
XIV. THE THREE WEAVERS 246
XV. THANKSGIVING DAY 275
XVI. CHRISTMAS GREENS AND WATCH-NIGHT EMBERS 287

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
"SHE STOOD THERE ON THE PLATFORM, WAVING HER
HANDKERCHIEF" (_See page 300_) _Frontispiece_

"SHE TURNED HER WHITE FINGERS IN THE MOONLIGHT" 61

"'THIS LITTLE KNAVE MUST BE MY PARTNER'" 130

"SHE COULD HEAR EVERY WORD OF THE CONVERSATION" 167

"HE HELD IT ASIDE FOR THEM BOTH TO PASS THROUGH" 199

"MITTIE SAT UP IN BED, TOO STARTLED TO UTTER A
SOUND" 220

"'IT'S LIKE A BIT OF HOME TO SEE YOU AGAIN'" 283

"MALCOLM, LEANING ON HIS GUN, STOOD WATCHING
HER" 293

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