The Railway Children

By Nesbit, Edith

Book Id: WPLBN0000622529
Format Type: PDF eBook
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Railway Children
Author:	Nesbit, Edith
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: Chapter 1. THE beginning of things. They were not railway children to begin with. I don?t suppose they had ever thought about railways except as a means of getting to Maskelyne and Cook?s, the Pantomime, Zoological Gardens, and Madame Tussaud?s. They were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived with their Father and Mother in an ordinary red?brick?fronted villa, with coloured glass in the front door, a tiled passage that was called a hall, a bath?room with hot and cold water, electric bells, French windows, and a good deal of white paint, and ?every modern convenience?, as the house?agents say. There were three of them. Roberta was the eldest. Of course, Mothers never have favourites, but if their Mother HAD had a favourite, it might have been Roberta. Next came Peter, who wished to be an Engineer when he grew up; and the youngest was Phyllis, who meant extremely well.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Railway Children, 1