The Railway Children - E. Nesbit

the top of a cake. The way ended in a steep run and a wooden fence—and there was the railway with the shinin ...

places from which they wished to get away. Never before had they passed close enough to a signal-box to ...

Well, it was just like that with the sorrow the children had felt at Father's going away, and at Mot ...

“Jam OR butter, dear—not jam AND butter. We can't afford that sort of reckless luxury nowa ...

of torture.” “You needn't threaten,” said Bobbie, “and I do think you might let us help.” “If I find a ...

“I've been to my coal-mine,” he said; “to-morrow evening we'll bring home the black diamonds in the chariot ...

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“Why,” said he, “you're the children from the Three Chimneys up yonder. So nicely dressed, too. Tell m ...

out.” She took his arm, and he let her. “There's an awful lot of coal in the cellar, anyhow,” he went ...

Chapter III. The old gentleman. After the adventure of Peter's Coal-mine, it seemed well to the children to k ...

“I say,” Phyllis suggested, “let's all wave to the Green Dragon as it goes by. If it's a magic dragon, i ...

Master. Peter felt very uncomfortable, for he had now had time to think over the affair of the coal-mine. H ...

more comfortable in his mind than he had felt since the hand of the Station Master had fastened on his ...

They reached the station and spent a joyous two hours with the Porter. He was a worthy man and seemed never ...

numbers of every single one he seed; in a green note-book with silver corners it was, owing to his fathe ...

their mothers when they are in trouble even when they are grown up, and she thought she knew a little ...

She asked him to write it all down, and he did. When Bobbie showed Mother the list he had written, Mother ...

In the early morning Bobbie heard her name and jumped out of bed and ran to Mother's bedside. “Oh—ah, yes—I thin ...

Some of them had run a little, because of Phyllis having put the Brunswick black on too eagerly, but the words ...

“Old gent,” he said; “he asked me to fetch it up straight away.” “Thank you very much,” said Peter, a ...