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The Adventures of Elizabeth Ann by Josephine Lawrence
Illustrated by Thelma Gooch
NEW YORK: GROSSET & DUNLAP
(c) 1923 by Barse & Co.
The Adventures of Elizabeth Ann
CHAPTER I
A LITTLE GIRL ON A LONG JOURNEY
"Do you live on the train?" asked Elizabeth Ann.
The young colored woman, who was just slipping a clean blue frock over the head of the little girl, laughed.
"Bless you, no, honey," she said in her pleasant voice. "I live in Chicago and go home after every trip. There, you're buttoned up and your hair-ribbon's tied. Is that the way your ma fixes it?"
Elizabeth Ann stood on tiptoe to see her hair-ribbon in the glass over the wash-bowl.
"My mother makes it stand up higher," she answered.
Then so suddenly that no one was more surprised than Elizabeth Ann, great tears came into her blue eyes. They would have run down her face and splashed on the clean dress, if someone had not knocked at the door of the dressing-room.
"Is my little girl ready for breakfast?" asked a deep voice.
Elizabeth Ann dried her eyes hastily. It would never do to have the conductor think she was crying.
"She's all ready, Mr. Hobart," said the colored woman, straightening her own white apron and the little girl's hair-ribbon, and opening the door apparently all at once. "Here she is!"
The big, gray-haired man in the blue uniform of a train conductor held out his hand.
"Well, Sister, you look as fresh as a daisy," he told her, smiling down at her. "How did you like