Produced by David Edwards, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: THE DUCK HUNT (_See page 168_)] The Little Colonel in Arizona By ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON Author of "The Little Colonel Series," "Big Brother," "Ole Mammy's Torment," "Joel: A Boy of Galilee," "Asa Holmes," etc. Illustrated by ETHELDRED B. BARRY [Illustration] BOSTON * L. C. PAGE & COMPANY * PUBLISHERS _Copyright, 1904_ BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY (INCORPORATED) _All rights reserved_ Published September, 1904 _Ninth Impression, March, 1908_ CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. MARY TELLS ALL SHE KNOWS 1 II. A ROBINSON CRUSOE OF THE DESERT 19 III. A DAY AT SCHOOL 38 IV. WARE'S WIGWAM 56 V. WHAT A LETTER BROUGHT ABOUT 78 VI. WASH-DAY AND WASHINGTON 94 VII. A SURPRISE 116 VIII. IN THE DESERT OF WAITING 137 IX. LLOYD'S DUCK HUNT 162 X. THE SCHOOL OF THE BEES 179 XI. THE NEW BOARDER AT LEE'S RANCH 193 XII. PHIL HAS A FINGER IN THE PIE 212 XIII. A CHANGE OF FORTUNE 231 XIV. THE LOST TURQUOISES 253 XV. LOST ON THE DESERT 272 XVI. BACK TO DIXIE 293 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE THE DUCK HUNT (_See page 168_) _Frontispiece_ "SHE PROCEEDED WITH A JOYFUL HEART TO PAINT THE AFRICAN LION" 51 "'WE ALLEE SAMEE LAK CHINAMEN,' HE SAID" 94 "'I THOUGHT WE'D NEVAH, NEVAH GET HEAH!'" 128 "ENJOYING EVERY MOMENT OF THE SUNNY AFTERNOON" 162 "SHE LEANED OVER TO OFFER HIM THE LITTLE BASKET" 209 "HE WAS HOLDING OUT BOTH FOREFINGERS" 244 "CLATTERING DOWN THE ROAD AS FAST AS HIS FEET COULD CARRY HIM" 279 THE LITTLE COLONEL IN ARIZONA CHAPTER I. MARY TELLS ALL SHE KNOWS "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."