Ben Pepper
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About This Book
Margaret Sidney was the pseudonym of American author Harriett Mulford Stone Lothrop. In addition to writing popular children's stories, she ran her husband Daniel Lothrop's publishing company after his death. After they bought The Wayside country house together, they worked hard to make it a center of literary life.The success of Harriett's short stories prompted her to write the now-famous “Five Little Peppers” series. This series was first published in 1881, the year that Stone married Daniel Lothrop. Daniel had founded the D. Lothrop Company of Boston, who published Harriett's books under h...
Chapters (87)
- BEN PEPPER
- AUTHOR OF "FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AND THEIR FRIENDS," "A LITTLE MAID OF CONCORD TOWN," "OLD CONCORD," "HESTER, AND OTHER NEW ENGLAND STORIES," ETC. ILLUSTRATED BY EUGENIE M. WIREMAN BOSTON: LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO. PEPPER TRADE MARK Registered in U. S. Patent Office. Copyright, 1905, BY Harriett M. Lothrop. Published, August, 1905. Twentieth Thousand Norwood Press: Berwick & Smith Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
- Then she hopped away from Polly and made a little cheese right on the sidewalk.
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- Ben Pepper
- I
- THE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING EXPEDITION
- "O dear me," wailed Polly, burrowing deeper within the folds of the black alpaca apron.
- II
- BEN'S PLAN
- III
- HAPS AND MISHAPS
- IV
- "IT'S JOEL'S OLD LADY"
- V
- "THE PRESENTS ALL GO FROM SANTA CLAUS"
- VI
- BEN GOES SHOPPING WITH MADAM VAN RUYPEN
- VII
- "WHERE'S PIP?" AND JASPER TURNED BACK
- VIII
- "ANY ONE WHO WANTS TO PLEASE JASPER," SAID BEN, "HAD BETTER TAKE UP THIS CHAP"
- And the first person he ran up against was a small boy, his hands full of little wads of paper bundles.
- IX
- WHAT A HOME-COMING
- X
- "I'LL LOVE HER JUST FOREVER!"
- XI
- AN AFTERNOON CALL
- XII
- VAN
- "See what you've done; that's castor oil."
- XIII
- THE BIG BOX
- There was an awful pause, every one staring at the smooth layer of brown paper.
- XIV
- THE CHILDREN IN THE MOUNTAIN CABIN
- XV
- THE MINISTER LOOKS AFTER HIS PARISHIONERS
- XVI
- WHO WILL HELP?
- XVII
- "NOW WE CAN HAVE OUR CHRISTMAS!"
- XVIII
- TELLING ALL THE NEWS
- XIX
- JOCKO
- "Did you ever see such sweet little fingers?" said Polly.
- XX
- REPAIRING DAMAGES
- XXI
- THE POSTPONED CHRISTMAS MORNING
- XXII
- AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE
- XXIII
- THE SLEIGHING PARTY
- XXIV
- JASPER AND BEN
- XXV
- IT WAS POLLY WHO HEARD IT FIRST
- XXVI
- "COULD YOU TAKE HIM, BEN?"
- XXVII
- "MR. KING, WHO IS THAT PIP YOU HAVE HERE?"
- XXVIII
- BEN DECIDES THE MATTER FOR HIMSELF
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- THE FAMOUS PEPPER BOOKS 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.
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