: Five little Peppers in the Little Brown House by Sidney Margaret Heyer Hermann Illustrator - Siblings Juvenile fiction; Families Juvenile fiction; Fatherless families Juvenile fiction; Five Little Peppers (Fictitious characters) Juvenile fiction

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SO POLLY HAD HER FLOWERS AFTER ALL, AND SHE DRESSED THE PIE GAYLY WITH THEM 20

EVERY ONE OF THE FOUR PAIRS OF HANDS WAS GATHERING UP THE PIECES, OH, SO FAST! 74

"O DEAR, THAT'S MY FAULT!" CRIED BEN, IN GREAT DISTRESS 124

"LET ME SEE--I WANT TO SEE 'FROM A FRIEND'!" SCREAMED JOEL 198

AND THERE WAS PHRONSIE FAST ASLEEP 254

"YOU MUST TELL ME ALL ABOUT IT, JOEY" 306

"OH!" SCREAMED SOMEBODY 394

POLLY PEPPER'S CHICKEN PIE

To begin with, it was the most remarkable chicken that was to have made the famous pie for Thanksgiving. But alas! A sad mishap befell the Pepper family.

In the first place none of the family ever knew where it came from. Ebenezer, or Ben, as he was usually called, found it one day in a swamp, down by the meadow as he was digging sweet-flag to sell, in order to get some money to buy a pair of boots for the coming winter. It was not hurt, only it couldn't get out. The wonder is, how it ever got there. However, Ben didn't stop to think of that; he must set to work to get Master Chick out. So, forgetting flag-root in his eagerness, he took an old fence rail, and by dint of poking and urging it, and tumbling around in the bog till he was pretty wet himself, he at last had the satisfaction of obtaining his prize.

It proved to be a fine black chicken, a shanghai, and grasping it tightly under one arm, its eyes protruding with fright, Ben flew home, and bursting into the door of the Little Brown House, astonished them all by thrusting the long-legged black fowl before their faces, nearly upsetting Polly as he did so, who was helping her mother pull out the basting-threads of the coat Mrs. Pepper had just finished on the edge of the twilight.

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