Other Fiction Johnston, Annie F: The Little Colonel in Arizona. v1. 12 Feb 2014

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Annie Fellows Johnston (1863–1931) was an American author of children's fiction who wrote the popular "Little Colonel" series, which was the basis for the 1935 Shirley Temple film The Little Colonel. She was born and grew up in McCutchanville, Indiana, a small unincorporated town near Evansville, Indiana.

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“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.”

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