Five little Peppers in the Little Brown House

by Margaret Sidney

BY
MARGARET SIDNEY
Author of “Five Little Peppers and How they Grew,”
“Five Little Peppers Midway,” “Five Little Peppers
Grown Up,” “Ben Pepper,” “A Little Maid of
Concord Town,” “Two Little Friends in
Norway,” etc.

ILLUSTRATED BY HERMANN HEYER

BOSTON
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

PEPPER
TRADE MARK
Registered in U. S. Patent Office.

Copyright, 1907, by Harriett M. Lothrop.
Published, August, 1907.
All Rights Reserved.
Five Little Peppers
in the Little Brown House.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

PREFACE

“What ever became of Polly Pepper’s famous Chicken Pie, and also Phronsie’s red-topped shoes?” the friends of the “Five Little Peppers” keep asking. “We have searched through all the Pepper Books, and cannot find them. Please give us those two stories again.”

At last all these requests are granted in this book, containing, first of all, those two stories that make the very beginning of all the records of the Pepper Family. Indeed, there wasn’t any Pepper Family before they were written; nor any Little Brown House, not a sign of one; nor any Badgertown even, till Margaret Sidney one day wrote “Polly Pepper’s Chicken Pie” and sent it to the Wide Awake Magazine.