This volume is the result of an avalanche of letters that, reached the author, Annie Fellows Johnston, complaining that she skipped in the Little Colonel series. To entreaties she has responded with this charming, wholesome volume, in which she fills in the skipped places. Mary Ware is a lovable little girl, not a very little one either, because she is old enough to go to boarding-school, and her ingenuity is evidenced by her sleeping calmly under a raised umbrella because a troublesome roommate adjusted the electric light so it shone on her pillow. Likewise it proves that she is unsuperstitious. The volume as a whole is delightful, and any girl may be proud to number its heroine among her book friends. This is the ninth volume in the "Little Colonel Series". (Summary from an original 1908 review)
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Preface
02:07 - Chapter 2
Mary Enters Warwick
19:02 - Chapter 3
'The King's Call'
21:45 - Chapter 4
Room-Mates
18:35 - Chapter 5
'Aye, There's the Rub!'
36:40 - Chapter 6
A Fad and a Christmas Fund
42:03 - Chapter 7
Jack's Watch Fob
23:39 - Chapter 8
In Joyce's Studio
17:25 - Chapter 9
Christmas Day at Eugenia's
24:28 - Chapter 10
The Bride-Cake Shilling Comes to Light
50:01 - Chapter 11
Her Seventeenth Birthday
27:41 - Chapter 12
Trouble for Everybody
22:55 - Chapter 13
The Good-Bye Gate
19:02 - Chapter 14
The Jester's Sword
35:30 - Chapter 15
Back at Lone-Rock
33:47 - Chapter 16
Keeping Tryst
30:15