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Grade 7-12

Annie Fellows Johnston

The Little Colonel's Hero

Paperback (HardPress Publishing Jan. 29, 2010)
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. LLOYD MEETS HERO It was July when they reached Switzerland. After three weeks of constant travel, it seemed good to leave boats and railroads for awhile, and stop to rest in the clean old town of Geneva. The windows of the big hotel dining-room looked out on the lake, and the Little Colonel, sitting at breakfast the morning after their arrival, could scarcely eat for watching the scene outside. Gay little pleasure boats flashed back and forth on the sparkling water. The quay and bridge were thronged with people. From open windows down the street came the tinkle of pianos, and out on the pier, where a party of tourists were crowding on to one of the excursion steamers, a band was playing its merriest holiday music. Far away in the distance she could see the shining snow crown of Mont Blanc, and it gave her an odd feeling, as if she were living in a geography lesson, to know that she was bounded on one side by thefamous Alpine mountain, and on the other by the River Rh6ne, whose source she had often traced on the map. The sunshine, the music, and the gay crowds made it seem to Lloyd as if the whole world were out for a holiday, and she ate her melon and listened to the plans for the day with the sensation that something very delightful was about to happen. We'll go shopping this morning, said Mrs. Sherman. I want Lloyd to see some of those wonderful music boxes they make here; the dancing bears, and the musical hand-mirrors; the chairs that play when you sit down in them, and the beer-mugs that begin a tune when you lift them up. Lloyd's face dimpled with pleasure, and she began to ask eager questions. Couldn't we take one to Mom Beck, mothah ? A lookin'-glass that would play ' Kingdom Comin', when she picked it up ? It would surprise her so sh...
ISBN
1407613820 / 9781407613826
Pages
156
Weight
7.7 oz.
Dimensions
5.98 x 0.33 in.

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