CHAPTER XVI.
A PEEP INTO THE FUTURE.
"AND what happened next?"
Ah, that I cannot tell you, for the rest of the story is yet to belived. Only the swineherd's magic caldron can give you a glimpse intothe future.
Gather around it, all you curious little princes and princesses, andthrust your fingers into the steam as the water bubbles and the bellsbegin again. I cannot tell what it will show you. Glimpses of collegelife, perhaps, and gay vacation times, as Rob and the captain and thetwo little knights leave their boyhood days behind them and grow up intomanly young fellows, ready to take the places waiting for them in theworld.
Perhaps there will be college days and gay vacation times for the girls,too, with white commencement gowns and diplomas and June roses. And awayoff in the distance there may be the sound of wedding bells ringing forthem all, but if it is too far for the kettle to catch the echo oftheir chiming, surely _I_ have no right to tell.
But no matter what the kettle may show, or what it fails to disclose,you may be sure of this, that none who ever played under the Locustswith the Little Colonel forgot the pleasure of those merry playtimes.And all who shared her joy in finding little Dot were better and morehelpful ever after, because of what happened that Christmas-tide, thehappiest of all the Little Colonel's holidays.
THE END.
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Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
Page 146, "knee-keep" changed to "knee-deep" (lay knee-deep in some)
Page 194, word "to" added to the text (call Milly to help her)
Final ad pages, sometimes the printer forgot to make an author orsub-heading in a listing set in small-capitals, such as on The Wreck ofthe Ocean Queen. In such instances as these, small-capitals were addedto make the title or author match the rest of the listings.
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