FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS ABROAD

by

MARGARET SIDNEY


Illustrated by
FANNY Y. CORY




PREFACE

When the friends of the Pepper family found that the author was firm in
her decision to continue their history no further, they brought their
appeals for the details of some of those good times that made the
"little brown house" an object-lesson.

In these appeals, the parents were as vigorous as the young people for
a volume of the stories that Polly told, to keep the children happy in
those hard days when her story-telling had to be a large factor in
their home-life; and also for a book of their plays and exploits,
impossible to be embodied in the continued series of their history, so
that all who loved the "Five Little Peppers" might the better study the
influences that shaped their lives.

Those requests were complied with; the author realising that the
detailed account held values, by which stronger light might be thrown