Five Little Peppers Abroad
ng out of the window to look up and down the canal where the many-coloure
answered musingly, and her hands dropped
prang to Mrs. Fisher's side,-"do you know, I think it was just the loveliest thing in all
as Polly threw herself down on the floor and laid her head in her mother's lap, just as
ing soothingly over Polly's head, "that there never seems to be time for the li
chin, "and I'm going to begin right now. It makes me think of the little brown h
black eyes were as serene as ever. "You u
me my new stove. Mamsie, wasn't Papa Fisher splendid? And then he saved my eyes. Just think, Mamsie, I never
gly. "Never think that you don't do anything. Why, it was only this very morning that your
ther. "Oh, I want to be, but I don't know how to help him. Papa Fisher always seems
they never complain. Your father, in going about as he does, day after day, to the hospitals and everywhere, where he can learn anything that will make him a better doctor, is
"I'm going to try harder than ever to see wherever I can find a
n the door opened, and Phronsie, fresh from the hands of Matilda, who had been changing her gown, came in with Araminta in
ir, do, Mamsi
bothers," said Polly
r, at which Phronsie gave a small sigh of content, and wriggled her toes as they were stretched out straigh
d Polly, "won't we, Pet?" l
Phronsie, with another w
aid Mother Fisher
nsie sprang to their feet, and a lively race ensued to see which should be th
en, and they both rushed into his arms; "so you did like to have yo
ted him in, and led him to the seat of honour, a bi
apa dear," said Phronsie, surveying him gravely as he
nta and all. She perched there in quiet content, while he set for
and they are working away at home, studying and all that, Joel and David are, and Ben is pegging away
ler, but she said not a word as she
cause it makes us all homesick after them, and it's best that they should be the
Fisher said
oint with wonderful directness, "I think the time has come for us to act, which is
ned over his chair and hung on his words, whil
tention of his audience, "I propose that we send a box of go
ve a little crow. "Oh, Grandpapa!" exclaimed Polly, "do you really mean it?" and she t
immensely pleased with the way his news was received. "She
it's the very thing; and oh! thank you, sir, for thinking of it. The boys won't be so homesick for us when th
ce around and around in the middle of the room. "Oh, I wish
bring him up here," said old Mr. King. "No, no, Phronsie, you want to stay and t
iently; "just let me lay Araminta down, Grandpapa, on
and then came and clambered up again into his lap. By this time Poll
k hair back from his forehead, and his eyes sparkled. "Oh,
Mrs. Fisher? If we are going to send the box, why isn't it best to begin the work at
anced around the room in glee. For old Mr. King set Phronsie down, with, "There, go, c
erful box to go home to the boys. And though Polly didn't know it, several other things, that boys wouldn't be supposed to care for in the least, were slyly added to the purchases, when she wasn't looking, to
that won't do; it's too big," as Phronsie protested that nothing was so nice as a huge Delft plate hanging on the wall. There was a big windmill and several little windmills in the distan
t's cows at home in Badgertown. And Ben would like it, and Joel, and David." And all P
we do?" she cried; "she is just as determined as she wa
d Jasper, with a look at the rapt little face. Phronsie was now kneeling o
arther corner with the proprietor of the shop, picking out some small articles that struck his fancy, turned and called Phronsie. She didn't
oking over her shoulder. "
. "I do, Grandpapa, like it
must have it. And it shall hang in y
Grandpapa," said Phronsie; "it must go
and just on the point of saying, like Polly, "it's too big, child," wh
e nod; "I love that nice cow, and that little girl. G
ong, child. Well, the plate shall go to the boys, and I o
gle in the shop at the two. "Well, it's a mercy it's got a cow on it instead of a
e found," said Polly; "don't you be