BOOKS BY MARGARET SIDNEY A LITTLE MAID OF CONCORD TOWN _Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill_ _Price, $1.50_ A LITTLE MAID OF BOSTON TOWN _Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill_ _Price, $1.50_ THE FAMOUS PEPPER BOOKS IN ORDER OF PUBLICATION _Eleven Volumes_ _Illustrated_ _Price per volume, $1.50_ FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AND HOW THEY GREW FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS MIDWAY FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS GROWN UP PHRONSIE PEPPER THE STORIES POLLY PEPPER TOLD THE ADVENTURES OF JOEL PEPPER FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS ABROAD FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AT SCHOOL FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AND THEIR FRIENDS BEN PEPPER FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS IN THE LITTLE BROWN HOUSE LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON [Illustration: Polly telling her stories. “_So one of Mamsie’s bed-slippers was tied on Phronsie’s little sore foot, and Polly began_”--] 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. [Illustration: PEPPER TRADE-MARK] 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. PREFATORY NOTE. The author has received from mothers and other persons interested in the Pepper Family, so many requests for the Stories told by Polly Pepper (to which frequent allusion has been made in the Series called the “Five Little Peppers’” Books), that this initial volume of Polly’s earlier stories has been prepared in obedience to these requests. WAYSIDE, CONCORD, MASS. _March, 1899._ CONTENTS