Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924 / 2008-09-24 00:00:00
EBOOK THE STORY OF THE TREASURE SEEKERS ***
This etext was created by Jo Churcher, Scarborough, Ontario
(jchurche@io.org)
The Story of the Treasure Seekers
by E. Nesbit
Being the adventures of the Bastable children in search of a
fortune
TO OSWALD BARRON
Without whom this book could never have been written
The Treasure Seekers is dedicated in memory of childhoods
identical but for the accidents of time and space
CONTENTS
1. The Council of Ways and Means
2. Digging for Treasure
3. Being Detectives
4. Good Hunting
5. The Poet and the Editor
6. Noel's Princess
7. Being Bandits
8. Being Editors
9. The G. B.
10. Lord Tottenham
11. Castilian Amoroso
12. The Nobleness of Oswald
13. The Robber and the Burglar
14. The Divining-rod
15. 'Lo, the Poor Indian!'
16. The End of the Treasure-seeking
CHAPTER 1
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.
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