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Title: Five Little Friends

Author: Sherred Willcox Adams
Maud and Miska Petersham

Release Date: May 17, 2008 [EBook #25497]

Language: English

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FIVE LITTLE FRIENDS

[Illustration]

BY
SHERRED WILLCOX ADAMS

_ILLUSTRATED BY_
MAUD AND MISKA PETERSHAM

=New York=
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1922

_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1922,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

* * * * *

Set up and electrotyped. Published December, 1922.

Printed in the United States of America.

CONTENTS

PAGE

THE FIVE LITTLE FRIENDS AT SCHOOL 1

THE FIVE LITTLE FRIENDS IN VACATION 53

[Illustration: THE GOLDFISH]

THE FIVE LITTLE FRIENDS AT SCHOOL

Bob and Betty, Paul and Peggy and little Dot are five little friends.
They go to the same school. Many other children go to the school too,
but these five little friends are the ones this story is about.

Bob is the tall boy in the brown suit. Betty is the girl in the checked
dress. Paul is the boy with the white blouse. Peggy is the girl with
curls. Little Dot is the tiny child with bobbed hair.

Bob and Betty, Paul and Peggy and little Dot have a very fine teacher.
She is called Miss West. Many other children are in Miss West's room
too. But the five little friends are the ones this story is about.

One morning when the children came to school Miss West had a surprise
for them. On her desk was something large and round. It was all covered
with paper.

"Guess what this is, children," said Miss West.

"It is a balloon," said Bob.

"I think it is a football," said Paul.

"No, no, you are both wrong," said Miss West. She took the paper off.
What do you think it was?

It was a big glass bowl. In it were six goldfish. They were swimmin