Books with title Five Little Peppers Grown Up

"Dear me," said Polly, "I don't see wherever she can be, Jasper. I've searched just everywhere for her." And she gave a little sigh, and pushed up the brown rings of hair under her sailor cap. "Don't worry, Polly," said Jasper, with a reassuring smile. "She's with Matilda, of course. Come, Polly, let's you and I have a try at the shuffle-board by ourselves, down on the lower deck." "No, we can't," said Polly, with a dreadful longing at her heart for the charms of a game; "that is, until we've found Phronsie." And she ran down the deck. "Perhaps she is in one of the library corners, though I thought I looked over them all." "How do you know she isn't with Matilda, Polly?" cried Jasper, racing after, to see Polly's little blue jacket whisking ahead of him up the companion-way. "Because"—Polly stopped at the top and looked over her shoulder at him—"Matilda's in her berth. She's awfully seasick. I was to stay with Phronsie, and now I've lost her!" And the brown head drooped, and Polly clasped her hands tightly together. "Oh, no, she can't be lost, Polly," said Jasper, cheerfully, as he bounded up the stairs and gained her side; "why, she couldn't be!"

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Later edition, published 1918, in unclipped color illustrated dust jacket. Clean turquoise cloth boards with black lettering on cover and spine. Fading at top of spine, tiny closed tears at top spine edge. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. All pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers (neatly penned brief previous owner inscription dated Xmas 1939). Illustrated by Hermann Heyer. 426 pages. Dust jacket is not price clipped (1.00 on front inside flap), small portrait of author on front inside flap, chipping at top and bottom spine edges, some short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.

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