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E Nesbit. The New Treasure Seekers
The New Treasure Seekers
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THE ROAD TO ROME; OR, THE SILLY STOWAWAY
THE CONSCIENCE-PUDDING
ARCHIBALD THE UNPLEASANT
OVER THE WATER TO CHINA
THE YOUNG ANTIQUARIES
THE INTREPID EXPLORER AND HIS LIEUTENANT
THE TURK IN CHAINS; OR, RICHARD'S REVENGE
THE GOLDEN GONDOLA
THE FLYING LODGER
THE SMUGGLER'S REVENGE
ZAÏDA, THE MYSTERIOUS PROPHETESS OF THE GOLDEN ORIENT
THE LADY AND THE LICENSE; OR, FRIENDSHIP'S GARLAND
THE POOR AND NEEDY
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E. Nesbit
Published by Good Press, 2020
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He did not show us this till my Father had told him about H.O., which it took some time for him to believe, and then he did and laughed, and said he would wire them to get the dynamite machine to speak, and if so, to take it out and keep it till its Father called for it.
It was quite late when we got to Cannon Street, and we went straight into the cloakroom, and there was the man in charge, a very jolly chap, sitting on a stool. And there was H.O., the guilty stowaway, dressed in a red-and-white clown's dress, very dusty, and his face as dirty as I have ever seen it, sitting on some one else's tin box, with his feet on some body else's portmanteau, eating bread and cheese, and drinking ale out of a can.
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