I Wish We Could Ever Have Any Light

Poly was ten and Ben one year older, and the younger three of the five little peppers, as they were always called, looked up to them with the intensest admiration and love. What they failed to do couldn't very well be done by anyone. For this brother and sister were everything to each other, and stood loyally together through thick and thin. To help mother was the great ambition of all children, older and younger. But in polys and Ben's souls, the desire grew so overwhelmingly great as to absorb all lesser thoughts. Many and fast were their secret plans, by which they were to astonish her at some future day.