The Story of the Treasure Seekers BEING THE ADVENTURES OF THE BASTABLE CHILDREN IN SEARCH OF A FORTUNE
BYE. NESBIT
AUTHOR OF “FIVE CHILDREN AND IT,” ETC.
T. FISHER UNWIN LTD
LONDON:
ADELPHI TERRACE
To OSWALD BARRON WITHOUT WHOM THIS BOOK COULD NEVER HAVE BEEN WRITTEN “THE TREASURES SEEKERS” IS DEDICATED IN MEMORY OF CHILDHOODS IDENTICAL BUT FOR THE ACCIDENTS OF TIME AND SPACE.
SOME chapters of this story have appeared in the Pall Mall Magazine, and in the Windsor Magazine, and some portions were printed by the Illustrated London News and in Nister’s Holiday Annual. To the Editors of these journals my thanks are due.—E. NESBIT.]
CONTENTS
- I. THE COUNCIL OF WAYS AND MEANS 3
- II. DIGGING FOR TREASURE 17
- III. BEING DETECTIVES 31
- IV. GOOD HUNTING 51
- V. THE POET AND THE EDITOR 65
- VI. NOËL’S PRINCESS 79
- VII. BEING BANDITS 95
- VIII. BEING EDITORS 111
- IX. THE G.B. 133
- X. LORD TOTTENHAM 153
- XI. CASTILIAN AMOROSO 169
- XII. THE NOBLENESS OF OSWALD 195
- XIII. THE ROBBER AND THE BURGLAR 219
- XIV. THE DIVINING‐ROD 249
- XV. ‘LO, THE POOR INDIAN!’ 265
- XVI. THE END OF THE TREASURE SEEKING 281
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- “SEE THE RICH TREASURE” From a drawing by Gordon Brown.Frontispiece
- “THE FUNNIEST LITTLE GIRL YOU EVER SAW” From a drawing by Gordon Brown. Facing page 84
- “THE OLD GENTLEMAN CAUGHT HIM BY THE COLLAR, AND CALLED HIM A YOUNG THIEF” From a drawing by Gordon Brown. 152
- “TO THE POLICE STATION” From a drawing by Gordon Brown. 161
- “WE FOLLOWED HER ON TIPTOE, AND ALICE SANG AS SHE WENT” From a drawing by Gordon Brown. 254
- “WE WERE LOOKING OVER THE BANISTERS” From a drawing by Gordon Brown. 264
- “I DON’T SUPPOSE HE WAS USED TO POLITENESS FROM BOYS” From a drawing by Gordon Brown. 271
- “THE UNCLE WAS VERY FIERCE WITH THE PUDDING” From a drawing by Gordon Brown. 275
