Books with author Annie F 1863-1931 Johnston

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From the author of The LittleColonel , immortalized in film by the adorable Shirley Temple,comes yet another enchanting story. Little Joyce is an American girl who hasbeen sent abroad to France to study. She is very homesick and lonely, until shemeets Jules, a sick boy who needs her help to get well. She soon discovers thateven a Christmas far from home can be joyful. But will she be able to helpJules?Annie Fellows Johnston succeeds in writing a timeless story of bravery andfriendship. Travel to the faraway land of The Giant Scissors, across from theRiver Loire, and share in Joyce's adventures there! Other books by Ms. Johnstoninclude: The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation ,The Little Colonel's Hero , The Little Colonel'sHouse Party , The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor , Mary Ware in Texas , Mary Ware's PromisedLand , and Two Little Knights of Kentucky . All of these are published by Pelican.

When the Ware family boarded the train in San Antonio that September morning for their long journey back to Lone-Rock, every passenger on the Pullman straightened up with an appearance of interest. Somehow their arrival had the effect of a breath of fresh air blowing through the stuffy car. Even before their entrance some curiosity had been awakened by remarks which floated in from the rear platform, where they were bidding farewell to some friends who had come to see them off.

"Joyce," said Jack Ware, stopping beside his sister's seat in the long, Western-bound train, "I wish you'd go back into the observation-car, and make Mary stop talking. She's telling all she knows to a couple of strangers." "Why don't you do it?" asked Joyce, looking up from her magazine with a teasing smile. "That dignified scowl of yours ought to frighten anything into silence."

"Johnny make a quilt!" repeated Rob Marshall, with a shout of laughter. "I'd as soon expect to see a wild buffalo knitting mittens!" "But you're not to speak of it outside the family, Rob," his mother hastened to say, "and you must not tease the little fellow. You older children have ways of earning pocket-money,—Rhoda with her painting, and you with your bent iron work, but Johnny hasn't had a cent of income all fall.

Excerpt from The Little Colonel at Boarding-SchoolThen he noticed that every hammock and garden chair had disappeared from the lawn. Not even the usual trail of magazines and palm-leaf fans was left on the grass, to Show that somebody had been Spending a comfortable hour in the shade. Usually at this time in the afternoon there was a flutter Of ribbons and white dresses somewhere back among the trees; but the place was deserted now. The wicker tea-table was gone from its corner on the piazza. The rugs and cushions which had filled the cosy corners behind the vines were packed away. The lace curtains were down in the long drawing room, and, peering through the windows which Opened to the floor, he saw a coloured man, busily shrouding the handsome old furniture in linen covers.What's the matter, Alec? Asked Rob. What has become of everybody?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

It was the coldest Saint Valentine's eve that Kentucky had known in twenty years. In Lloydsborough Valley a thin sprinkling of snow whitened the meadows, enough to show the footprints of every hungry rabbit that loped across them; but there were not many such tracks. It was so cold that the rabbits, for all their thick fur, were glad to run home and hide. Nobody cared to be out long in such weather, and except now and then, when an ice-cutter's wagon creaked up from some pond to the frozen pike, the wintry stillness was unbroken.

IT was market day in Capernaum. Country people were coming in from the little villages among the hills of Galilee, with fresh butter and eggs. Fishermen held out great strings of shining perch and carp, just dipped up from the lake beside the town. Vine-dressers piled their baskets with tempting grapes, and boys lazily brushed the flies from the dishes of wild honey, that they had gone into the country before day-break to find.

Frontispiece CAUSE IM so MUCH LIKE YOU, WAS THE STARTLING ANSWER .. .. .9 THE SAME TEMPER SEEMED TO BE BURNING IN THE EYES OF THE CHILD ..26 WITH THE PARROT PERCHED ON THE BROOM SHE WAS CARRYING .. .. -42 THE LITTLE COLONEL CLATTERED UP AND DOWN THE HALL ..... 48 SINGING AT THE TOP OF HER VOICE .. 55 TELL ME GOOD-BY, BABY DEAR, SAID MRS. SHERMAN 69 AMANTHIS, REPEATED THE CHILD DREAMILY 77 SHE CLIMBED UP IN FRONT OF THE MIRROR 9! THE SWEET LITTLE VOICE SANG IT TO THE END 97 THE GIANT SCISSORS JULES 10 WHERE JOYCE LIVED 17 HE IS STOPPING AT THE GATE .. .21 THE KINGS SONS 27 HE CUT IT LOOSE AND CARRIED IT HOME .39 THE PRINCESS 41 HE LAID HIS HEAD ON THE SILL .. .56 IT FELL TO THE FLOOR WITH A CRASH .6l OUT WITH MARIE ...... 67 HE CAME TOWARDS HKR WITH A DAZED EX- PRESSION ON HS FACE .... 75 INITIAL LETTER 80 A LESSON iv PATRIOTISM 89 TRYING TO READ ...... 95 On, IF JACK COULD ONLY SEE IT! .. 108 BROSSARD, BEWARE! BEWARE! .. .115 THE CHILD CREPT CLOSE TO THE CHEERFUL FIRE .(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at