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I. THE INVITATIONS ARE SENT
II. "ONE FLEW INTO THE CUCKOO'S NEST"
III. "ONE FLEW EAST"
IV. "ONE FLEW WEST"
V. BETTY REACHES THE "HOUSE BEAUTIFUL"
VI. THE ENCHANTED NECKLACE
VII. BITS FROM BETTY'S DIARY
VIII. THE GYPSY FORTUNE-TELLER
IX. HER SACRED PROMISE
X. FOUND OUT
XI. SOME STORIES AND A POEM
XII. A PILLOW-CASE PARTY
XIII. MORE MEASLES
XIV. A LONG NIGHT
XV. "THE ROAD OF THE LOVING HEART"
XVI. A FEAST OF LANTERNS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"MALCOLM WENT ON CUTTING" (Frontispiece)
"'OH, RUN AND GET IT, QUICK, DAVY,' SHE CRIED"
"SHE SORTED THE RIBBONS AND EXAMINED THE GLOVES"
"BETTY BEGAN THE STORY"
"'I'M GLAD THAT I DON'T HAVE TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY THE YEAR ROUND!'"
"THERE WAS ONE WILD SCREAM AFTER ANOTHER"
"'BUT WE CAUGHT THE CHICKENS AND BROUGHT THEM BACK!'"
"'LET'S ALL SIT DOWN ON THE STEPS'"
CHAPTER I.
THE INVITATIONS ARE SENT.
Down the long avenue that led from the house to the great entrance gate
came the Little Colonel on her pony. It was a sweet, white way that
morning, filled with the breath of the locusts; white overhead where the
giant trees locked branches to make an arch of bloom nearly a quarter of
a mile in length, and white underneath where the fallen blossoms lay
like scattered snowflakes along the path.
Everybody, in Lloydsboro Valley knew Locust. "It is one of the prettiest
places in all Kentucky," they were fond of saying, and every visitor to
the Valley was taken past the great entrance gate to admire the long
rows of stately old trees, and the great stone house at the end, whose
pillars gleamed white through the Virginia creeper that nearly covered
it.
Everybody knew old Colonel Lloyd, too, the owner of the place. He also
was often pointed out to the summer visitors. Some people called
attention to him because he was an old Confederate soldier who had given
his good right arm to the cause he loved, some because they thought he
resembled Napoleon, and others because they had some amusing tale to
tell of the eccentric things he had said or done.
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