Five Children and It
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The house was three miles from the station, but, before the dusty hired hack had rattled along for five minutes, the children began to put their heads out of the carriage window and say, "Aren't we nearly there?" And every time they passed a house, which was not very often, they all said, "Oh, _is_ this it?" But it never was, till they reached the very top of the hill, just past the chalk-quarry and before you come t…
Details
- AuthorE. Nesbit
- SourceProject Gutenberg #17314
- Length53,822 words · 3h 35m of reading
- Chapters13
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-09-06
Contents
13 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01JOHN BLAND
- 02NOTE
- 03BEAUTIFUL AS THE DAY
- 04GOLDEN GUINEAS
- 05BEING WANTED
- 06WINGS
- 07NO WINGS
- 08A CASTLE AND NO DINNER
- 09A SIEGE AND BED
- 10BIGGER THAN THE BAKER'S BOY
- 11GROWN UP
- 12SCALPS
- 13THE LAST WISH
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