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  THE LITTLE COLONEL AT

  (Trade Mark)

  BOARDING-SCHOOL

  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

  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

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

  "SHE STOOD THERE ON THE PLATFORM, WAVING HERHANDKERCHIEF."

  (_See page 300_)]

  The Little Colonel at Boarding-School

  By ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON Author of "The Little Colonel Series," "BigBrother," "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."