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Georgina of the Rainbows By: Annie F. Johnston (1863-1931) |
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GEORGIANA OF THE RAINBOWS BY ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON
AUTHOR OF TWO LITTLE KNIGHTS OF KENTUCKY, THE GIANT SCISSORS,
THE DESERT OF WAITING, ETC.
"... Still bear up and steer
right onward. " MILTON To
My Little God daughter
"ANNE ELIZABETH" [Illustration: "At the Tip of Old Cape Cod."]
Contents I. Her Earlier Memories
II. Georgina's Playmate Mother
III. The Towncrier Has His Say
IV. New Friends and the Green Stairs
V. In the Footsteps of Pirates
VI. Spend the Day Guests
VII. "The Tishbite"
VIII. The Telegram that Took Barby Away
IX. The Birthday Prism
X. Moving Pictures
XI. The Old Rifle Gives Up Its Secret
XII. A Hard Promise
XIII. Lost and Found at the Liniment Wagon
XIV. Buried Treasure
XV. A Narrow Escape
XVI. What the Storm Did
XVII. In the Keeping of the Dunes
XVIII. Found Out
XIX. Tracing the Liniment Wagon
XX. Dance of the Rainbow Fairies
XXI. On the Trail of the Wild Cat Woman
XXII. The Rainbow Game
XXIII. Light Dawns for Uncle Darcy
XXIV. A Contrast in Fathers
XXV. A Letter to Hong Kong
XXVI. Peggy Joins the Rainbow Makers
XXVII. A Modern "St. George and the Dragon"
XXVIII. The Doctor's Discovery
XXIX. While They Waited
XXX. Nearing the End
XXXI. Comings and Goings
[Illustration: "As Long as a Man Keeps Hope at the Prow He Keeps Afloat."] [Illustration: "Put a Rainbow 'Round Your Troubles." Georgina.]
Chapter I Her Earlier Memories If old Jeremy Clapp had not sneezed his teeth into the fire that winter
day this story might have had a more seemly beginning; but, being a true
record, it must start with that sneeze, because it was the first
happening in Georgina Huntingdon's life which she could remember
distinctly. She was in her high chair by a window overlooking a gray sea, and with a
bib under her chin, was being fed dripping spoonfuls of bread and milk
from the silver porringer which rested on the sill. The bowl was almost
on a level with her little blue shoes which she kept kicking up and down
on the step of her high chair, wherefore the restraining hand which
seized her ankles at intervals. It was Mrs. Triplett's firm hand which
clutched her, and Mrs. Triplett's firm hand which fed her, so there was
not the usual dilly dallying over Georgina's breakfast as when her mother
held the spoon. She always made a game of it, chanting nursery rhymes in
a gay, silver bell cockle shell sort of way, as if she were one of the
"pretty maids all in a row," just stepped out of a picture book. Mrs. Triplett was an elderly widow, a distant relative of the family, who
lived with them. "Tippy" the child called her before she could speak
plainly a foolish name for such a severe and dignified person, but Mrs.
Triplett rather seemed to like it. Being the working housekeeper,
companion and everything else which occasion required, she had no time to
make a game of Georgina's breakfast, even if she had known how. Not once
did she stop to say, "Curly locks, Curly locks, wilt thou be mine?" or to
press her face suddenly against Georgina's dimpled rose leaf cheek as if
it were somthing too temptingly dear and sweet to be resisted. She merely
said, "Here!" each time she thrust the spoon towards her. Mrs. Triplett was in an especial hurry this morning, and did not even
look up when old Jeremy came into the room to put more wood on the fire.
In winter, when there was no garden work, Jeremy did everything about the
house which required a man's hand. Although he must have been nearly
eighty years old, he came in, tall and unbending, with a big log across
his shoulder. He walked stiffly, but his back was as straight as the long
poker with which he mended the fire. Georgina had seen him coming and going about the place every day since
she had been brought to live in this old gray house beside the sea, but
this was the first time he had made any lasting impression upon her
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