The Railway Children - E. Nesbit

“As if I should!” said Roberta. “Mother told me the other day there was a thick hedge of it at her mo ...

Chapter IV. The engine-burglar. What was left of the second sheet and the Brunswick black came in very nicely ...

“Yes,” said Peter, “she IS splendid; but it's rather awful when she's angry.” “She's like Avenging ...

requested to get out of the way and keep there till tea-time. “You aren't to see what we're going to do ...

Then another day when the children thought they would like to fish in the canal, a boy in a barge ...

Viney told me that her doctoring only cost her twopence a week because she belonged to a Club.” “ ...

once she was the one who was right, and she scrambled down the rocky slope with a really happy feeling. Phyll ...

Daddy dear, I'm only four And I'd rather not be more. Four's the nices ...

pattern all done with single blooms of lilac or wallflower or laburnum. “It's a map—a map of the railway!” ...

then go to bed. But when Bobbie crept down later to bring up her presents—for she felt she really cou ...

“If you please, Mr. Engineer,” she spoke a little louder, but the Engine happened to spea ...

was. She dried her eyes and sniffed earnestly. “Now, then,” said the fireman, “out with it. What do y ...

don't really—do you?” she added, for she had seen a not unkindly wink pass between the two. “My trade's drivin ...

of theirs—and she had the joy of knowing what guards do in their secret fastnesses, and und ...

Chapter V. Prisoners and captives. It was one day when Mother had gone to Maidbridge. She had gone alone, but t ...

coal-dust and struck a spidery attitude and said he was the blot that advertises somebody's Blue Black W ...

German. Aunt Emma knew German, and used to sing a song about bedeuten and zeiten and bin and sin. ...

backed out of the press and went away. “Take him into your room,” whispered Bobbie to the Station Master. “M ...

By a still more uncommon accident the handkerchief was moderately clean. Standing in front of the stran ...

The children, watching his face and Mother's, knew that he was telling her things that made her angry ...