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By E. Nesbit "It may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.

Chapter I. The beginning of things.

[Illustration: THE BOOK OF BEASTS] I. The Book of Beasts He happened to be building a Palace when the news came, and he left all the bricks kicking about the floor for Nurse to clear up--but ...

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.

produced from images generously made available by the Library of Congress) [Illustration: The Psammead] FIVE CHILDREN AND IT BY E. NESBIT AUTHOR OF "THE TREASURE-SEEKERS," "THE WOU...

CHAPTER 1. THE PSAMMEAD There were once four children who spent their summer holidays in a white house, happily situated between a sandpit and a chalkpit.

CHAPTER 1. THE EGG It began with the day when it was almost the Fifth of November, and a doubt arose in some breast--Robert's, I fancy--as to the quality of the fireworks laid in for the Guy Fawk...

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CHAPTER I PAGE THE BEGINNING 1 CHAPTER II DELIVERER OR DESTROYER 30...

CHAPTER 1. THE JUNGLE Children are like jam: all very well in the proper place, but you can't stand them all over the shop--eh, what?'

ILLUSTRATIONS He scrambled out of the cupboard, and the boots and goloshes fell off him like spray off a bather (p. 24) _Frontispiece_ ...

Pussy and Doggy Tales By E. Nesbit With Illustrations by L. Kemp-Welch London J. M. Dent & Co.

[Illustration: '"Don't break down the door!

CHAPTER I OF UNDERSTANDING 3 CHAPTER II NEW WAYS 9 CHAPTER III PLAYTHINGS 17 CHAPTER IV IMAGINATION ...

I THE HAUNTED INHERITANCE The most extraordinary thing that ever happened to me was my going back to town on that day.

CHAPTER I TINKLER AND THE MOONFLOWER DICKIE lived at New Cross.

I THE BEGINNING TO understand this story you will have to believe in the Greater Gods--Love and Youth, for example, and Adventure and Coincidence; also in the trusting heart of woman and the dec...

THE UNFAITHFUL LOVER SHE was going to meet her lover.

THE JUNGLE "Children are like jam: all very well in the proper place, but you can't stand them all over the shop--eh, what?"

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NOW that I've nearly done my days, And grown too stiff to sweep or sew, I sit and think, till I'm amaze, About what lots of things I know: Things as I've found out one by one-- And when I...

"No. The chemises aren't cut out.

file was produced from images generously made available by the University of Florida Digital Collections.) [Illustration: Royal Children of English History] [Illustration: ALFRED THE GREAT...

BY E. NESBIT LONDON 1896 THESE tales are written in an English dialect--none the less a dialect for that it lacks uniformity in the misplacement of aspirates, and lacks, too, strange words m...

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