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Title: Five Little Peppers And How They Grew

Author: Margaret Sidney

Posting Date: December 3, 2008 [EBook #2770]
Release Date: January, 2001

Language: English

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FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AND HOW THEY GREW

By Margaret Sidney

To the Memory of MY MOTHER;
wise in counsel--tender in judgment, and in all charity
--strengthful in Christian faith and purpose
--I dedicate, with reverence, this simple book.

CONTENTS

A HOME VIEW

MAKING HAPPINESS FOR MAMSIE

MAMSIE'S BIRTHDAY

TROUBLE FOR THE LITTLE BROWN HOUSE

MORE TROUBLE

HARD DAYS FOR POLLY

THE CLOUD OVER THE LITTLE BROWN HOUSE

JOEL'S TURN

SUNSHINE AGAIN

A THREATENED BLOW

SAFE

NEW FRIENDS

PHRONSIE PAYS A DEBT OF GRATITUDE

A LETTER TO JASPER

JOLLY DAYS

GETTING A CHRISTMAS FOR THE LITTLE ONES

CHRISTMAS BELLS!

EDUCATION AHEAD

BRAVE WORK AND THE REWARD

POLLY IS COMFORTED

PHRONSIE

GETTING READY FOR MAMSIE AND THE BOYS

WHICH TREATS OF A GOOD MANY MATTERS

POLLY'S DISMAL MORNING

POLLY'S BIG BUNDLE

FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS

A HOME VIEW

The little old kitchen had quieted down from the bustle and confusion
of mid-day; and now, with its afternoon manners on, presented a holiday
aspect, that as the principal room in the brown house, it was eminently
proper it should have. It was just on the edge of the twilight; and the
little Peppers, all except Ben, the oldest of the flock, were enjoying
a "breathing spell," as their mother called it, which meant some
quiet work suitable for the hour. All the "breathing spell" they could
remember however, poor things; for times were always hard with them
nowadays; and since the father died, when Phronsie was a baby, Mrs.
Pepper had had hard work to scrape together money enough to put bread
into her children's mouths, and to pay the rent of the little