THE FAMOUS PEPPER BOOKS BY MARGARET SIDNEY FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AND HOW THEY GREW Illustrated by HERMANN HEYER 12mo Cloth $1.50 FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS MIDWAY Illustrated by W. L. TAYLOR 12mo Cloth $1.50 FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS GROWN UP Illustrated by L. MENTE 12mo Cloth $1.50 PHRONSIE PEPPER Illustrated by JESSIE MCDERMOTT 12mo Cloth $1.50 THE STORIES POLLY PEPPER TOLD Illustrated by E. B. BARRY and JESSIE MCDERMOTT 12mo Cloth $1.50 THE ADVENTURES OF JOEL PEPPER Illustrated by SEARS GALLAGHER 12mo Cloth $1.50 FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS ABROAD Illustrated by FANNY CORY 12mo Cloth $1.50 FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AT SCHOOL Illustrated by HERMANN HEYER 12mo Cloth $1.50 FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AND THEIR FRIENDS Illustrated by EUGENIE M. WIREMAN 12mo Cloth $1.50 BEN PEPPER Illustrated by EUGENIE M. WIREMAN 12mo Cloth $1.50 LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO. BOSTON [Illustration: BEN AND POLLY HELD THEIR BREATH. WHAT IF THEY SHOULDN’T FIT!--_Page 43._] FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS IN THE LITTLE BROWN HOUSE 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_ [Illustration] 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_. And no one could be more astonished than was she--for the record was so simple--when the editor wrote for another one just like it. So “Phronsie Pepper’s New Shoes” was written.