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Oswald Bastable and Others (1905)

by E. Nesbit

Other authors: Charles Edmund Brock (Illustrator)

Series: The Treasure Seekers (Stories)

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Excerpt: ... took off the paper. The pot was filled to the brim with gold coins. Hildebrand blew out his candle and went up. The cook stopped him at the top of the cellar stairs. 'What's that you got there, Master Hildy? Pickles, I lay my boots, ' she said. 'It's not, ' said he. Pg 189 'Let me look, ' said she. 'Let me alone, ' said Hildebrand. 'Not me, ' said the cook. She had her hand on the brown paper. Hildebrand had heard how treasure-trove has to be given up to Government, and he did not trust the cook. 'You'd better not, ' he said quickly; 'it's not what you think it is.' 'What is it, then?'… (more)
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The four Bastable stories are substantially weaker than the Bastable Trilogy, and the remaining stories are generally not that strong with the exception of one or two like "The Charmed Life." ( )
  CurrerBell | Sep 23, 2013 |
A series of short stories, some magical, some everyday. I particularly liked 'The Missing Will' and 'Sir Christopher Cockleshell". "The Charmed Life" was interesting - with its notion of a separate life that can be kept safe outside of oneself it reminded me strongly of Diana Wynne Jones's 'Charmed Life'. I wonder if she had read it. ( )
  AJBraithwaite | Aug 7, 2012 |
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Excerpt: ... took off the paper. The pot was filled to the brim with gold coins. Hildebrand blew out his candle and went up. The cook stopped him at the top of the cellar stairs. 'What's that you got there, Master Hildy? Pickles, I lay my boots, ' she said. 'It's not, ' said he. Pg 189 'Let me look, ' said she. 'Let me alone, ' said Hildebrand. 'Not me, ' said the cook. She had her hand on the brown paper. Hildebrand had heard how treasure-trove has to be given up to Government, and he did not trust the cook. 'You'd better not, ' he said quickly; 'it's not what you think it is.' 'What is it, then?'

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