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GEORGINA OF THE RAINBOWS



    "As Long as a Man Keeps Hope
    at the Prow He Keeps Afloat."

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[Illustration: Georgina Of The Rainbows]




    GEORGINA
    OF THE RAINBOWS

    BY

    ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON

    _Author of
    "Two Little Knights of Kentucky," "The Giant Scissors,"
    "The Desert of Waiting," etc._

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      "_... Still bear up and steer
    right onward._"     MILTON

    New York
    Britton Publishing Company


    Copyright, 1916
    BRITTON PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC.

    All Rights Reserved




    To
    My Little God-daughter
    "ANNE ELIZABETH"

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[Illustration: "At the Tip of Old Cape Cod."]




CONTENTS


  CHAPTER                                      PAGE
       I. HER EARLIER MEMORIES                   11
      II. GEORGINA'S PLAYMATE MOTHER             22
     III. THE TOWNCRIER HAS HIS SAY              30
      IV. NEW FRIENDS AND THE GREEN STAIRS       40
       V. IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF PIRATES            51
      VI. SPEND-THE-DAY GUESTS                   63
     VII. "THE TISHBITE"                         77
    VIII. THE TELEGRAM THAT TOOK BARBY AWAY      86
      IX. THE BIRTHDAY PRISM                     96
       X. MOVING PICTURES                       111
      XI. THE OLD RIFLE GIVES UP ITS SECRET     124
     XII. A HARD PROMISE                        135
    XIII. LOST AND FOUND AT THE LINIMENT WAGON  141
     XIV. BURIED TREASURE                       154
      XV. A NARROW ESCAPE                       161
     XVI. WHAT THE STORM DID                    169
    XVII. IN THE KEEPING OF THE DUNES           178
   XVIII. FOUND OUT                             187
     XIX. TRACING THE LINIMENT WAGON            198
      XX. DANCE OF THE RAINBOW FAIRIES          209
     XXI. ON THE TRAIL OF THE WILD-CAT WOMAN    218
    XXII. THE RAINBOW GAME                      230
   XXIII. LIGHT DAWNS FOR UNCLE DARCY           244
    XXIV. A CONTRAST IN FATHERS                 258
     XXV. A LETTER TO HONG-KONG                 272
    XXVI. PEGGY JOINS THE RAINBOW-MAKERS        283
   XXVII. A MODERN "ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON"  291
  XXVIII. THE DOCTOR'S DISCOVERY                304
    XXIX. WHILE THEY WAITED                     317
     XXX. NEARING THE END                       329
    XXXI. COMINGS AND GOINGS                    336




ILLUSTRATIONS

BY RAY N. JACKSON


  THE REAL GEORGINA (in life colors)      _Frontispiece_
                                             FACING PAGE
  THEY TOOK THEIR WAY IN "THE BETSEY"            54
  COMING ACROSS A SEA OF DREAMS                 240
  THE TOWNCRIER AND HIS LASS                    310

[Illustration: "Put a Rainbow 'Round Your Troubles."--GEORGINA.]




Georgina of the Rainbows




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