THE STORIES POLLY PEPPER TOLD

TO THE

FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS IN THE LITTLE BROWN HOUSE

BY

MARGARET SIDNEY

AUTHOR OF “FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AND HOW THEY GREW,” “A LITTLE MAID OF CONCORD TOWN,” ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED BY JESSIE McDERMOTT and ETHELDRED B. BARRY

BOSTON LOTHROP, LEE AND SHEPARD CO.

Registered in U. S. Patent Office.

Copyright, 1899, BY Lothrop Publishing Company

All rights reserved.

Forty-fourth Thousand.

TYPOGRAPHY BY C. J. PETERS & SON, BOSTON.

PRESSWORK BY BERWICK & SMITH.

TO

MARGARET MULFORD LOTHROP

WHO REPRESENTS TO THOSE WHO KNOW HER, BOTH THE

“POLLY” and the “PHRONSIE”

OF THE

Five Little Peppers

THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED.