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Project Gutenberg's The Story of the Treasure Seekers, by E. Nesbit This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Story of the Treasure Seekers Author: E. Nesbit Posting Date: August 6, 2008 [EBook #770] Release Date: January, 1997 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF THE TREASURE SEEKERS *** Produced by Jo Churcher 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. 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 you only show that you do not understand people at all. Dora is the eldest. Then Oswald--and then Dicky. Oswald won the Latin prize at his preparatory school--and Dicky is good at
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