Subject:  MSR Little Colonel at Boarding-S
Author:  Annie Fellows Johnston
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Date:  7/6/2003

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The Little Colonel at Boarding-School by Annie Fellows Johnston, 1903

"What's the matter, Alec?" asked Rob. "What has become of everybody?"
 
"Done had bad news from Ole Colonel las' night," answered the man. "Walkah telegraphed from Hot Springs that ole Marse's rheumatiz is wuss' and Mis' Sherman she's gwine down to stay with him awhile, an' the young ladies is gwine to bo'din'school. We all's fixin' to shet-up the place till Chris'mus."
 
Rob gave another long whistle, shrill and loud. "Boarding-school!" he exclaimed. "Well, this is the biggest surprise out!"
 
His whistle was answered from the upper hall by a clear high trill, which had been the Little Colonel's signal for him since the first summer they had played together. Giving the answering call he stepped inside the hall, and standing at the foot of the stairs peered up anxiously at the laughing face leaning over the banister-rail above him.
 
"Come down, Lloyd, and tell me all about it," he demanded.
 
"I can't now," she replied, in an important tone, smiling tantalizingly at the tall, broad-shouldered boy who shook his racket at her with a threatening gesture. "Mothah has gone to town, and Mom Beck is packing my trunk. I have to show her what things to put into it. Betty is down there somewhere. She'll take the edge off yoah curiosity.  Betty," she called, catching sight of a pink dress whisking through the lower hall, "don't tell Rob what school we are going to. Make him guess."

Annie Fellows Johnston (1863-1931), was an American writer of children's books. Her most popular books were in the thirteen-book series of a young and feisty girl named "The Little Colonel." The first book of that series was made into a movie of the same name starring Shirley Temple.

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