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    Five Little Friends
    Five Little Friends
    Five Little Friends
    Ebook94 pages53 minutes

    Five Little Friends

    By Maud Fuller Petersham, Sherred Willcox Adams and Miska Petersham

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJun 1, 2004
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      Five Little Friends - Maud Fuller Petersham

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Five Little Friends, by

      Sherred Willcox Adams and Maud and Miska Petersham

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

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      Title: Five Little Friends

      Author: Sherred Willcox Adams

      Maud and Miska Petersham

      Release Date: May 17, 2008 [EBook #25497]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FIVE LITTLE FRIENDS ***

      Produced by Jason Isbell, Emmy and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Cover

      FIVE LITTLE FRIENDS

      Pony

      BY

      SHERRED WILLCOX ADAMS

      ILLUSTRATED BY

      MAUD AND MISKA PETERSHAM

      New York

      THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

      1922

      All rights reserved

      Copyright, 1922,

      By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

      —————————

      Set up and electrotyped. Published December, 1922.

      Printed in the United States of America.

      CONTENTS

      THE GOLDFISH

      THE FIVE LITTLE FRIENDS

      AT SCHOOL

      Bob and Betty, Paul and Peggy and little Dot are five little friends. They go to the same school. Many other children go to the school too, but these five little friends are the ones this story is about.

      Bob is the tall boy in the brown suit. Betty is the girl in the checked dress. Paul is the boy with the white blouse. Peggy is the girl with curls. Little Dot is the tiny child with bobbed hair.

      Bob and Betty, Paul and Peggy and little Dot have a very fine teacher. She is called Miss West. Many other children are in Miss West's room too. But the five little friends are the ones this story is about.

      One morning when the children came to school Miss West had a surprise for them. On her desk was something large and round. It was all covered with paper.

      Guess what this is, children, said Miss West.

      It is a balloon, said Bob.

      I think it is a football, said Paul.

      No, no, you are both wrong, said Miss West. She took the paper off. What do you think it was?

      It was a big glass bowl. In it were six goldfish. They were swimming about in the water.

      Little folks, said Miss West, these are our school pets. We must feed them and give them fresh water. Then they will live a long time and we can have fun watching them.

      The children stood around the bowl. They watched the fish swim and float. They laughed when one fish chased another round and round the bowl. He looked very funny with his big mouth wide open.

      Soon Miss West showed the children how to feed the fish. After that they took turns in caring for them. Paul and Peggy had the first turn. Next Bob and Betty had their turn. After that little Dot took care of the fish all by herself. The other children had turns too. But this story is about the five little children whose names you know.

      One day Miss West said to the children, How many of you little girls and boys have pets of your own?

      A great many hands were raised.

      I have! said Bob.

      I have! said Paul.

      I have, I have, I have, said Betty and Peggy and little Dot.

      I have thought of a fine plan, said Miss West. Each day one child may tell the other children about his pet.

      What fun! said Betty; and all the other children thought, What fun that will be!

      Who will have the first turn? asked Bob.

      We will play a game to see, said Miss West.

      So Miss West wrote the names of all the children on slips of paper Then she put all the slips in Paul's cap. Next she blindfolded Peggy. Peggy put her hand in the cap and drew out a slip. What name do you think was on this slip? The name was Dot.

      So the next day little Dot told about her pet. This is what she said:

      "My pet is a white cat. Her name is Snowball. She is as white as snow. When she curls up in front of the fire she is round

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