The Little Colonel's Holidays (Classic Reprint)

ONCE upon a time, so the story goes (you may read it for yourself in the dear old tales of Hans Christian Andersen), there was a prince who disguised himself as a swineherd. It was to gain admittance to a beautiful princess that he thus came ,~ in disguise to her father's palace, and to attract her attention he made a magic caldron, hung around with strings of silver bells. "Whenever the water in the caldron boiled and bubbled, the bells rang a little tune to remind her of him. II Oh, thou dear Augustine, All is lost and gone, they sang. Such was the power of the magic kett1e, that when the water bubbled hard enough to set the

Table of Contents

I THE MAGIC KETTLE ? ? ? ? II; 11 THE ENn OF THE SUlfMER ? ? ? ? 17; I II BACK TO THE CUCKOO'S NEST ? ? ~ 3(; IV To BA~LnY· BRIGHT 46; v A TIME FOR P ATIl!~CE ? ? ? ? 60; VI MOLLY'S STORY ? ? ? ? ? 74; VII A FEAST OF SAILS ? ? ? ? 91; V'III EUGENIA JOINS Till! SEARCH ? · 105; IX LEFT BEHIl'D 1(6; x H OM~ - LESSONS AND JACK - 0' - LANTE ltNS 129; XI A HALLOWE'EN PANTY ? 146; XII THE HO;1~ OF A HERO ? ? · 164; XIII THE DAY AFTElt THAlI:KSGIVING ? ? · 180; XIV LLOYD MAK~S A DISCOVERY ? ? 200; XV A HAPPY CHRISTlfAS ? ? · 216; XVI A P~EP l~TO THE FUTURE ? ? ? ? 231

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