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HERE were so many interesting friends of the Five Little Peppers, whose lives were only the faintest of outlines in the series ending when Phronsie was grown up, that a volume devoted to this outer circle has been written to meet the persistent demand.

Over five hundred thousand copies of the Famous “Pepper” Books have already been sold, and the demand increases each year.

This delightful book contains twelve songs of much beauty and simplicity, each accompanied by illustrations printed in four colors. These pictures are characterized by an old-fashioned quaintness and humor; the “little boys” belong to the long ago, rather than to the present prevailing school of child-life illustration. In the verses is found, to a remarkable degree, that indefinable understanding of the way that little minds think and feel which is a gift of the very few. The attractive binding of flowered chintz completés a volume which for charming originality and freshness is not surpassed by any gift-book of the present season.

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