The Story of the Treasure Seekers

By Nesbit, Edith

Book Id: WPLBN0000581025
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 0.6 MB
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	The Story of the Treasure Seekers
Author:	Nesbit, Edith
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Children's literature, Children's fiction
Collections:	Children's Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Public Library Association


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Excerpt
Excerpt: THE COUNCIL OF WAYS AND MEANS. This is the story of the different ways we looked for treasure, and I think when you have read it you will see that we were not lazy about the looking. There are some things I must tell before I begin to tell about the treasure seeking, because I have read books myself, and I know how beastly it is when a story begins, ?Alas! said Hildegarde with a deep sigh, we must look our last on this ancestral home? and then some one else says something and you don't know for pages and pages where the home is, or who Hildegarde is, or anything about it. Our ancestral home is in the Lewisham Road. It is semi detached and has a garden, not a large one. We are the Bastables. There are six of us besides Father. Our Mother is dead, and if you think we don't care because I don't tell you much about her...

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Story of the Treasure Seekers, 1