Chapter I: Front Matter

Works of

ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON

=The Little Colonel Series=

(_Trade Mark, Reg. U. S. Pat. Of._)

Each one vol., large 12mo, cloth, illustrated

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

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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

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=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)

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_Entered at Stationers' Hall, London_

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_All rights reserved_

First Impression, October, 1906
Third Impression, August, 1907
Fourth Impression, April, 1908
Fifth Impression, March, 1909
Sixth Impression, February, 1910

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

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 HER PLACE BESIDE THE HARP"
(_See page 68_) _Frontispiece_

"IT NEEDED NO SECOND GLANCE TO TELL HIM WHO SHE WAS" 20

"HE WAS LEANING FORWARD IN HIS CHAIR, TALKING TO JOYCE" 66

"A TALL, ATHLETIC FIGURE IN OUTING FLANNELS" 84

"A LONG-DRAWN 'O-O-OH' GREETED THE BEAUTIFUL TABLEAU" 132

"'ALL YOU GIRLS STANDING WITH YOUR HANDS STUCK THROUGH THE BARS'" 163

"'THEY STEPPED IN AND ROWED OFF DOWN THE SHINING WATERWAY'" 171

"'ONE, TWO, THREE--_THROW_!'" 253

THE LITTLE COLONEL,

MAID OF HONOR