The engine was steaming on the track when they drove up to the station. Waffles, the coloured man whom Mr. Robeson had brought with him as cook, hung over the railing of the rear platform, whistling "Going Back to Dixie."
"How good that sounds!" exclaimed Lloyd, as her father helped her up the steps. "Now that we are really headed for home, I can hardly wait to get back to the Valley and tell mothah and Betty about my visit. I don't believe anybody in the whole world has as many good times to remembah as I have. Or as many good times to look forward to," she added, later, when, with a mighty snorting and puffing, the engine steamed slowly out of the station, and started on its long homeward journey.
As they rumbled on, she began picturing her arrival, the welcome at the station, and her meeting with her mother and Betty and the Walton girls. How much she had to tell them all, and how many delightful meetings she would have with the club! Her birthday was only two months away. Then the locusts would be white with bloom, and after that vacation. With the coming of summer-time to the Valley would come Rob to measure with her at the measuring-tree, to play tennis, and to share whatever the long summer days held in store.
With a vague sense that all sorts of pleasantness awaited her there, her thoughts turned eagerly toward Kentucky. Even the car-wheels seemed to creak in pleased anticipation, and keep time to the tune she hummed half under her breath:
"My heart turns back to Dixie, And I--must--go!"
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=The Little Colonel Stories.= (Trade Mark)
Being three "Little Colonel" stories in the Cosy Corner Series, "The Little Colonel," "Two Little Knights of Kentucky," and "The Giant Scissors," put into a single volume.
=The Little Colonel's House Party.= (Trade Mark)
=The Little Colonel's Holidays.= (Trade Mark)
=The Little Colonel's Hero.= (Trade Mark)
=The Little Colonel at Boarding School.= (Trade Mark)
=The Little Colonel in Arizona.= (Trade Mark)
=The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation.= (Trade Mark)
=The Little Colonel, Maid of Honour.= (Trade Mark)
Each one volume, cloth decorative, small quarto, $1.25.
New plates, handsomely illustrated, with eight full-page drawings in color.