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Title: New Treasure Seekers
or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune

Author: E. (Edith) Nesbit

Release Date: May 16, 2008 [eBook #25496]

Language: English

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NEW TREASURE SEEKERS

[Illustration: THE STAIR WAS OF STONE, ARCHED OVERHEAD LIKE CHURCHES.]

NEW TREASURE SEEKERS

Or The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune

by

E. NESBIT
Author of "The Treasure Seekers,"
"The Would-Be-Goods," Etc.

With Illustrations by Gordon Browne and Lewis Baumer [Illustration]

[Illustration]

New York
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Publishers

TO
ARTHUR WATTS
(OSWALD IN PARIS)
FROM
E. NESBIT

_Montparnasse, 1904._

NEW TREASURE SEEKERS

[Illustration]

CONTENTS

PAGE
THE ROAD TO ROME; OR, THE SILLY STOWAWAY 15

THE CONSCIENCE-PUDDING 37

ARCHIBALD THE UNPLEASANT 62

OVER THE WATER TO CHINA 88

THE YOUNG ANTIQUARIES 113

THE INTREPID EXPLORER AND HIS LIEUTENANT 136

THE TURK IN CHAINS; OR, RICHARD'S REVENGE 161

THE GOLDEN GONDOLA 185

THE FLYING LODGER 209

THE SMUGGLER