New Treasure Seekers; Or, The Bastable Children in Search of a FortuneNesbit, E. (Edith)
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New Treasure Seekers; Or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune
Nesbit, E. (Edith)
Family -- England -- Juvenile fiction; Siblings -- Juvenile fiction
This is the end of the things we did when we were at Lymchurch in Miss
Sandal's house.
It is the last story that the present author means ever to be the author
of. So goodbye, if you have got as far as this.
Your affectionate author,
OSWALD BASTABLE.
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Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
Page 39, "Noel" changed to "Noel" (cost?" Noel asked)
Page 77, "peacable" changed to "peaceable" (the peaceable quietness)
Page 162, "alway" changed to "alway" (they always sing in)
Page 196, "Its" changed to "It's" (It's not much to do)
Page 217, "But" changed to "but" (but he will just say)
Page 221, "birds" changed to "bird's" (like a bird's)
Page 289, "anenomes" changed to "anemones" (wood-anemones)
Page 294, "Mr." changed to "Mrs." (talking to Mrs. Bax.)
Varied hyphenation retained: armchair and arm-chair; boathouse and
boat-house; halfway and half-way; postmark and post-mark; stationmaster
and station-master; tablecloths and table-cloths; thoroughbred and
thorough-bred; wastepaper and waste-paper; motor car; motor-car.
Both Krikey and crikey and handkie and hankie were used and retained.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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