FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS ABROAD

CONTENTS


CHAPTER

I. OVER THE OCEAN
II. TWO ENGLISH FRIENDS
III. PHRONSIE GOES VISITING
IV. STEAMER LIFE
V. A FISH STORY AND OTHER THINGS
VI. A LITTLE SURPRISE
VII. OFF FOR HOLLAND
VIII. "WE WILL COME AGAIN AND STAY A WEEK"
IX. A BOX FOR THE PEPPER BOYS
X. DANGER
XI. THE TWO BIRTHDAYS IN OLD HOLLAND
XII. THE HENDERSON BOX
XIII. "THE CLEANEST PLACE IN ALL HOLLAND"
XIV. THE ISLAND OF MARKEN
XV. MR. KING DOES HIS DUTY
XVI. "LET US FLY AT THOSE BOOKS"
XVII. POLLY WROTE A NICE LITTLE NOTE
XVIII. BAYREUTH AND OLD FRIENDS
XIX. MR. KING HAS A LITTLE PLAN FOR POLLY
XX. "I SHOULD MAKE HIM HAPPY," SAID PHRONSIE
XXI. ON THE RIGI-KULM
XXII. POLLY TRIES TO HELP
XXIII. IN THE SHADOW OF THE MATTERHORN
XXIV. THE ROUND ROBIN
XXV. ON THE _MER DE GLACE_
XXVI. "WELL, HERE WE ARE IN PARIS!"
XXVII. "I'VE FOUND HIM!" EXCLAIMED JASPER
XXVIII. "WELL, I GOT HIM HERE," SAID THE LITTLE EARL




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"Now don't you want to get off?"

He clung to his pear with both hands and ate away with great
satisfaction

"Fan-ny!--the Earl of Cavendish!" She could go no further

Phronsie sat opposite him

"Mamsie's got her two bothers," said Polly

"Look at that girl!"

She picked up the skirt of her gown

Phronsie ducked and scuttled in as she could




_Five Little Peppers Abroad_




I

OVER THE OCEAN


"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!"

"Well, anyway, we can't find her, Jasper," said Polly, running on. "And
it's all my fault, for I forgot, and left her in the library, and went
with Fanny Vanderburgh down to her state-room. O dear me!" as she sped
on.

"Well, she's in the library now, most likely," said Jasper, cheerfully,
hurrying after, "curled up asleep in a corner." And they both ran in,
expecting to see Phronsie's yellow head snuggled into one of the
pillows.