The Railway Children - E. Nesbit

A week later Bobbie managed to get away alone. And once more she wrote a letter. And once more it wa ...

“Yes,” said Phyllis; “and then we're going to save up all the wool and hair we can get, and in t ...

“Well, I have a pigeon, then; at least Daddy told me they did. Only it was under their wings ...

“Passengers are forbidden to cross the line on any pretence,” murmured the foreman, doubtfully. “He ain't no ...

rocks, and so on and on, up and up, till at last they stood on the very top of the hill where they ...

“No more we have,” said Phyllis, partially appeased. It was really a most exciting place to be in. Th ...

“Oh, do, DO let's have something to eat,” wailed Phyllis. “I shall die if you don't, and then you'll ...

It was not yet quite dark in the tunnel when Phyllis caught at Bobbie's skirt, ripping out half a yard o ...

Peter was lighting the candle end with a hand that trembled. “Come on,” he said; but he had to clear ...

could:— “Oh, look up, speak to me! For my sake, speak!” ...

Chapter XII. What Bobbie brought home. “Oh, look up! Speak to me! For MY sake, speak!” The children said ...

said. “Did you tumble down?” asked Phyllis, sniffing. “Of course not—I'm not a kiddie,” said the boy, indi ...

Bobbie watched their dark figures and the little light of the little candle with an odd feeling of having come ...

“Don't faint again, PLEASE don't,” said Bobbie, as he groaned. She hastily wetted her handkerchief with milk ...

“By George,” said he, “you think of everything.” Bobbie blew. Out went the candle. You have no idea how ...

The pin-hole got larger—blue lights lay along the sides of the tunnel. The children could see the gravel way that ...

faced clock on the wall of the signal-box. The man looked at the clock, sprang to the levers, and wrenched them ...

There's a boy in the tunnel over there with a red jersey and his leg broken.” “What did he want to go int ...

So Phil left the hot signal-box and followed Peter across the fields to the farm. When the farm men, le ...

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