Books with title Little Colonel’s Knight Comes Riding, The

The childish adventures of Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, come to an endin The Little Colonel�s Knight Comes Riding , the last in the LittleColonel series.After their return to Lloydsboro Valley, Kentucky, from Warwick Hall inWashington D.C., the Little Colonel and friends Kitty Walton and Betty Lewisfind that the young boys they have grown up with have matured into gracefulyoung men.The Little Colonel struggles between her desire to still be a child and herdesire to live the life of a sophisticated young woman. But childhood sweetheartRob Moore�s proposal of marriage makes the Little Colonel all the more awareof her developing adult emotions.

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Excerpt from The Little Colonel's Knight Comes RidingThe farther he rode into the cool woods the better the idea pleased him, and where the bridle path crossed a narrow creek he paused a moment before plunging down the bank. Somewhere up the ravine a spring was trickling out in a ceaseless flow. He could not See it, but he could hear the gurgle of the water, as cold and crystal clear it splashed down into its rocky basin.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 a June morning in Kentucky. The doctor's nephew coming at a gallop down the pike into Lloydsboro Valley, reined his horse to a walk as he reached the railroad crossing, and leaning forward in his saddle, hesitated a moment between the two roads. The one along the railroad embankment was sweet with a tangle of wild honeysuckle, and led straight to the little post-office where his morning mail awaited him. The other would take him a mile out of his way, but it was through a thick beech woods, and the cool leafage of its green aisles tempted him. A red-bird darting on ahead suddenly decided his course, for following some quick impulse, as if the cardinal wings had beckoned him, he turned off the highway into the woods.