|
|
Mary Ware (published 1908)
|
|
|
Mary Ware (published 1908)
|
Preface
Dear Boys and Girls Who Are Old Friends of the Little Colonel:
When I finished the eighth volume of the Little Colonel Stories, The Maid of Honour, I thought I had reached the end of the series, but such a flood of letters came pouring in demanding to know what happened next, that I could not ignore such a plea, and in consequence The Little Colonel's Knight came riding by.
But even with Lloyd married and "living happily ever after" her friends were not satisfied. "You skipped" they complained by the hundreds. "You never told what happened between the time of her engagement and the wedding, and you never told what happened to Betty and Joyce and Mary and Phil and all the rest of them. Even if you haven't time for another book, couldn't you just please write one a little letter and satisfy my curiosity about each character."
Of course I couldn't begin granting all those requests, and finally I was persuaded it would be easier to answer your questions with a new book. So here is Mary Ware, taking up the thread of the story at the first of the skipped places. The time is September, the same September that Betty went away to Warwick Hall to teach and Lloyd began to prepare for her debut in Louisville.
Now this volume covers only one short year, so of course it can not tell you all you want to know. But if you are disappointed because it does not take you to the final milestone, remember that had we gone that far it would have been the end of all our journeying together. And we have it from our Tusitala himself, that best beloved of travellers, for whom in afar island of the sea was dug "a Road to last for ever," that "to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive." A. F. J.
< Title Page Chapter 1 >
MARY WARE
THE LITTLE COLONEL'S CHUM
by
Annie Fellows Johnston
(1863-1931)
Published 1908
Illustrated by Etheldred B. Barry
"To M. G. J."
|
Preface |
"HER KEEN GRAY EYES SWEPT HIM ONE
QUICK LOOK"
Frontispiece
This Site:
Home Page What's New? Biography of Annie Fellows Johnston,
Books on Line (Complete Original Little Colonel Book Series)
The Little Colonel (link to U. Penn))
The Giant Scissors
Two Little Knights of Kentucky
The Little Colonel's House Party
The Little Colonel's Holidays
The Little Colonel's Hero
The Little Colonel at Boarding-School
The Little Colonel in Arizona
The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation
The Little Colonel, Maid of Honor
The Little Colonel's Knight Comes Riding
Mary Ware, The Little Colonel's Chum
Mary Ware in Texas
Mary Ware's Promised Land
Check our home page for more titles by AFJ on other sites
The People & Characters: The Little Colonel, Papa Jack and Mrs. Sherman, The Old Colonel, Two Little Knights of Kentucky, Two Little Knights of Kentucky(2), Uncle Sidney & Aunt Elise, parents of the Two Little Knights of Kentucky, Grandmother McIntyre, Aunt Allison, The Waltons, Rob and Anna Moore, Betty, Joyce Ware, Jack Ware, Mom Beck, Walker, Katherine Marks, Gay Melville, The Lees of Arizona, Small Parts
Their Final Resting Places
The Places: in Pewee (Lloydsboro) Valley: Map, Map 2, Where it all began, The Locust, The Beeches Edgewood, The Little Colonel's Cottage, The Railroad Station, "Lloydsboro Seminary", Clovercroft, The Post Office, Churches, The Haunted House at Hartwell Hollow, Confederate Home Rollington, Minor Places In Old Louisville: The Culbertson Mansion, "Home of a Hero" Elsewhere: The Cuckoo's Nest (Indiana), Lee's Ranch, Camelback Mountain & Hole-in-Rock (Arizona), San Antonio and The Little Town of Bauer (Boerne), Texas, The Gate of the Giant Scissors (France)
Letters from Annie Fellows Johnston and "Mrs Walton"
Scrapbook
Links
Cooking with The Little Colonel
Guest BookEmail us about this site We always appreciate your suggestions and insights, and will do our best to answer your questions.. Much of the material included on this site comes from devoted Little Colonel Fans like you.
Visit historic Old Louisville on the web at the:
Old Louisville Guide
(Old Louisville and Literature)
original material & research © 1998-2007 LittleColonel.com
