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  "TAKE RICKIE! HE BEAT TOO, AS MUCH AS I." _Frontispiece_

  AND SHE TOLD THEM THE WHOLE STORY ASFAST AS SHE COULD 100

  JUST THEN SOMETHING SKIMMED OUT FROMTHE CORNER 155

  "I NEVER DID REGARD PICNICS AS PLEASANTAFFAIRS," GASPED MISS ANSTICE 206

  "SEE, JOEL, I'M ALL FIXED UP NICE," LAUGHEDPHRONSIE FROM HER PERCH 286

  "OH, I DO HOPE I SHALL DRAW THE RIGHTONE, JASPER." 307

  "AND SO WE HAD A LITTLE ENTERTAINMENT,AND SOLD THE TICKETS, AND HERE IS OUR GIFT!" 337

  THERE STOOD THE LITTLE VASE, PRESENTINGAS BRAVE AN APPEARANCE AS IN ITS FIRST PERFECTION 412

  _Five Little Peppers at School_