ABOUT THE BOOK

This book, a part of 12-volume series of The Five Little Peppers, covers the lives of the five children of Mamsie and the late Mister Pepper who are born into poverty in a rural “little brown house”. The series begins with the Peppers in their native state and develops with their rescue by a wealthy gentleman who takes an interest in the family.
It tells how the Peppers live, learn, and play in their little brown house. In spite of living in poverty, they bear bad times as best they can and make the most of the good times. But when Phronsie is kidnapped, she is rescued by young Jasper King who soon becomes fast friends with the Peppers and invite the whole family to live with him in the city. Though the Peppers live with an upper-class father and son, the older children are aware they’ll someday work for their livings. The stories continue with the Peppers’ adventures in school, abroad, and even back in the little brown house.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Margaret Sidney, the pseudonym of American writer Harriett Milford Stone Lothrop, was a popular writer of children’s stories. She was an early member of the Massachusetts Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and the founder of the Children of the American Revolution. Her important literary works include So as by Fire, Half Year at Brockton, The Pettibone Name, What the Seven Did, Who Told it to Me, Ballad of the Lost Hare, The Golden West, How they Went to Europe, Hester, and other New England Stories, The Minute-Man, Two Modern Little Princes, Dilly and the Captain, St. George and the Dragon, The Judges’ Cave; Being a Romance of the New Haven Colony in the Days of the Regicides, 1661, A Little Maid of Concord Town, and A Little Maid of Boston Town.

CONTENTS

1. POLLY GIVES MUSIC LESSONS.9
2. GETTING READY FOR CHRISTMAS.19
3. CHRISTMAS AT DUNRAVEN.29
4. THE FESTIVITIES.41
5. BAD NEWS. 51
6. OF MANY THINGS.61
7. PHRONSIE.71
8. POLLY LOOKS OUT FOR CHARLOTTE. 81
9. POLLY’S RECITAL. 91
10. PHRONSIE HAS A PLAN.103
11. THINGS ARE GETTING MIXED. 111
12. POLLY TRIES TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT .121
13. THE ACCIDENT.129
14. JOEL.139
15. THE FARMHOUSE HOSPITAL.147
16. ON THE BORDERLAND.157
17. JASPER.165
18. MR. KING ATTENDS TO MATTERS.175
19. MOTHER FISHER AND CHARLOTTE.183
20. STRAIGHTENING OUT AFFAIRS.193
21. POLLY TRIES TO HELP JASPER .201
22. MR KING AND POLLY. 211
23. THAT SETTLES MANY THINGS. 221
24. HOME. 231