', Noel said, 'Thank you,' and was going to take the shilling. 'You are so fond of saying "Let'sdo something!" 'I'm not,' said Albert-next-door; 'I'm going home. Dora is theonly one of us who ever tries to mend anything. We wanted to be detectives,and we thought a gang of coiners infested your house, so we lookedthrough your window last night. We wondered what had become of him, and allthe while the screaming went on and on, for we had taken the loose earthoff Albert's face so that he could scream quite easily and comfortably. The last but one was nice: she used to makejolly good currant puddings for us, and let us have the dish on thefloor and pretend it was a wild boar we were killing with our forks. Read Chapter 15. And the house is shut up. Ishall have to put it in another paper I know of.'. We askedthe way to Fleet Street, where Father says all the newspaper officesare. 'You must all of you have noticed the advertisements in the papers,telling you that ladies and gentlemen can easily earn two pounds a weekin their spare time, and to send two shillings for sample andinstructions, carefully packed free from observation. But Oswald heldon to the window-frame and stood on tiptoe and then he _saw_. Albert'suncle did not wait for them to come out. The Story of the Treasure Seekers: Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune (Puffin Story Books) January 30, 1959, Puffin 014030116X 9780140301168 We looked among the old boxes and broken chairs andfenders and empty bottles and things, and at last we found the spades wehad to dig in the sand with when we went to the seaside three years ago.They are not silly, babyish, wooden spades, that split if you look atthem, but good iron, with a blue mark across the top of the iron part,and yellow wooden handles. 'We must do something,' said Alice, 'because the exchequer is empty. It wouldbe sickening to write all that down, though of course it happens. Leave go! Presently Albert-next-door looked over the wall. At last the tunnel was nearly a yard long, and big enough to creep alongto find the treasure, if only it had been a bit longer. ToOswald he said many unpleasant things about ungentlemanly to spy onladies, and about minding your own business; and when I began to tellhim what I had heard he told me to shut up, and altogether he made memore uncomfortable than the bump did. We told her our names, butshe thought they were too short, so when it was Noel's turn he said hewas Prince Noel Camaralzaman Ivan Constantine Charlemagne James JohnEdward Biggs Maximilian Bastable Prince of Lewisham, but when she askedhim to say it again of course he could only get the first two namesright, because he'd made it up as he went on. Dicky said he did not think the girls ought to be in it, because theremight be danger, but Oswald reminded him that they had promised Alice,and that a promise is a sacred thing, even when you'd much rather not.So Oswald got Alice alone under pretence of showing her a caterpillar--Dora does not like them, and she screamed and ran away when Oswaldoffered to show it her. 'Lo, the Poor Indian!'16. Wemight be poor little children living in a crowded alley where even atsummer noon hardly a ray of sunlight penetrates; clothed in rags andwith bare feet--though I do not mind holes in my clothes myself, andbare feet would not be at all bad in this sort of weather. There were holes at the top of the shutters the shape of hearts, and theyellow light came out through them as well as through the chinks of theshutters. Then he satdown. The Treasure Seekers is dedicated in memory of childhoods identical but for the accidents of time and space . When we gotto the other grass we all sat down, and the Princess asked us if weliked 'dragees' (I know that's how you spell it, for I asked Albert-next-door's uncle). It is always dull inbooks when people talk and talk, and don't do anything, but I wasobliged to put it in, or else you wouldn't have understood all the rest.The best part of books is when things are happening. ', 'Oh,' said Dora suddenly, 'I have an idea. ', 'I'm glad we haven't a governess,' H. O. said. I went with Noel, because I am the eldest, and he is not old enough togo to London by himself. He got himself aknife with his money, and he cut every single one of his best buttonsoff. Presently the little girl asked us where our maids and governesses were. ', We all said, 'Out with it--what's the other idea? and never saying what.'. Fancy a Princess living _there_!'. There are some things I must tell before I begin to tell about thetreasure-seeking, because I have read books myself, and I know howbeastly it is when a story begins, "'Alas!" And even then they will say they are going to'pretend to be' a lion, or a witch, or a king. It wasOswald who first thought of looking for treasure. Alice never screamed at all when Oswald fell, but Dickythinks he heard Albert's uncle say, 'Confound those kids!' So I thought to give it into your hand, having a kindness for you because you feed your flock upon my mountain.â âThereupon the spectre told me exactly where the treasure lay, and how to find it. 'Well, promise you won't do anything without me,' Alice said, and wepromised. And when people are not telling thetruth Oswald generally knows by the way they look with their eyes.Oswald is not proud of being able to do this. It seemed as if it was the hand of Destinyhad placed it there, and the geranium in it was dead, and there wasnothing to stop your standing on it--so Oswald did. And we saved our crustsfor the prisoner. Albert's uncle says I ought to have putthis in the preface, but I never read prefaces, and it is not much goodwriting things just for people to skip. 'We can't try the advertisement yet. So he said--'No, I'll write it _now_.' It is thepostern gate that things always happen at in stories. 'tis dusk, and no humaneyes can mark our deeds.'. I'msurrendering as hard as I can. It was Noel who suggested this, but we made him shut up, becausewe knew well enough he only wanted to get back to his old books. When she'd done, H. O. said, 'That's jolly good! Oswald won theLatin prize at his preparatory school--and Dicky is good at sums. All the gardens have gates; they lead into a kind of lane thatruns behind them. So Dora made us all sit in a row on the floor, in ages, and then shepointed at us with the finger that had the brass thimble on. The Editor told us to sitdown, and he took the poems from Noel, and began to read them. he said, then he fell heavily among theflower-pots piled below. His eyes closed and he knew no more. ', 'You are very fortunate,' said the little girl. He sold some of his poetry once--and it was printed, butthat does not come in this part of the story. So he came along and dug, and when once he was over the wall we kept himat it, and we worked as well, of course, and the hole got deep. 'You've done it this time!' O. CHAPTER 6. We think she musthave forgotten it was Dora's and put it in her box by mistake. First published in 1899, it tells the story of Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius Bastable, and their attempts to assist their widowed father and recover the f⦠', You should always try to think of these little things. Then a great many people used to come to the door with envelopes with nostamps on them, and sometimes they got very angry, and said they werecalling for the last time before putting it in other hands. Noel asked. There is ajolly Bovril sign that comes off and on in different coloured lamps. I wish I'd known! I thought perhaps it was burglars, but Fatherhadn't come home, and Eliza had gone to bed, so I couldn't do anything.Only I thought perhaps I would tell the rest of you. 'Lo! She wasa very forgetful girl. And it was open; so we went through. 'It's not burglars,' Alice whispered; 'the mysterious stranger wasbringing things in, not taking them out. ', 'Of course,' said Alice; 'and I say, he was buried after all. Then she kissed me, and I did not mind. Digging is warm work. At least _we_ didn't go straight on. We had a fourth reason as well, and that was the best reasonof the lot. Whyshouldn't we let him have the odd somethings, and we'll have fourpenceeach.'. Weunpacked them very carefully and pulled them to pieces and scattered thestraw about. When you gethome tell your Father all about it, and if he says No, you can justbring the shillings back to me. 'But I will if you like,' said the Princess. Many people prefer to read off-line or to print out text and read from the real printed page. You were so shiny and black. you'llnever be a clever dog, so it's no good trying.'. 'Mind you keep very still,' he said, 'or I might chunk a bit out of youwith the spade.' Aliceand Noel are twins: they are ten, and Horace Octavius is my youngestbrother. We stayed about half an hour, and when we were going away hesaid again--, 'I shall print all your poems, my poet; and now what do you thinkthey're worth? We explained to her why murderers have to be hanged, but she only said,'I don't care. Let's track it andslay it in its lair.'. Common children! 'And I thought it was play. 0000009514 00000 n His collar hadcome undone, as I said, and he had an inky mark on his face that he madejust before we left the house, and he wouldn't let Dora wash it off, andone of his bootlaces was coming down. Castilian Amoroso12. Father does not like you to ask for newthings. We were pleased, too, to meet some one who knew the Jungle Book. 'I expect we shall have to make a tunnel,' Oswald said, 'to reach therich treasure.' The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit. Here is a million pounds ayear. ', 'Oh, you count Albert as one of yourselves on this occasion, eh? Then the other gentleman said something about Maecenas, and we went offto see the printing office with at least one pound seven in our pockets. O. So Noel wrote: O Eloquence and what art thou? There was the'Wreck of the Malabar', and the poem he wrote when Eliza took us to hearthe Reviving Preacher, and everybody cried, and Father said it must havebeen the Preacher's Eloquence. Not any tiresome divining-rod--but just plaindigging. Greenwich Park is a jolly good place to play in, especially the partsthat aren't near Greenwich. We went through that too, ontiptoe. ', And she ran at us, and began to kiss us one by one, beginning withAlice; she had got to H. O. when the horrid lady said--'Your Highness--go indoors at once! ', But Dicky said, 'No.' O Beetle how I weep to see Thee lying on thy poor back! There are many recordings of The Treasure Seekers and they vary greatly in quality. We could rescue anold gentleman from deadly Highwaymen. BEING DETECTIVES . 'What _do_ you put in your paper?' That is Dicky all over. It wasn't my poetry anyhow, I am glad tosay. 'I should like to be a detective,' said--perhaps it was Dicky, but Ithink not--'and find out strange and hidden crimes.'. The next thing that happened to us was very interesting. It was a green walnut. It is very flat, considering what a manhe was. When we had got that four shillings by digging for treasure we ought, byrights, to have tried Dicky's idea of answering the advertisement aboutladies and gentlemen and spare time and two pounds a week, but therewere several things we rather wanted. I'm just taking this poetry of yours becauseI like it very much; but we don't put poetry in this paper at all. When the Editor had read the first poem--itwas the one about the beetle--he got up and stood with his back to us.It was not manners; but Noel thinks he did it 'to conceal his emotion,'as they do in books. Indeed we do,sometimes, when we are playing at things which require it. 'Tell me how you came to think of it.And, I say, have you had any tea? M3����� 0000003927 00000 n ', The Editor gave him the blue pencil, and he sat down at the Editor'stable and wrote. But nothing happened. But Noel said, 'Yes, I'll write it if you'll give me a pen and ink, anda sheet of paper and an envelope. We thought a long time whether we'd write a letter and send it by postwith the poetry--and Dora thought it would be best. 'We are going to restore the fallen fortunes of the House of Bastable--and we have all thought of different ways--and we're going to try themall. Read by Karen Savage. You needn't pull my arm off.'. You will not catch me saying,'thus the sad days passed slowly by'--or 'the years rolled on theirweary course'--or 'time went on'--because it is silly; of course timegoes on--whether you say so or not. You can also read the full text online using our ereader. 'You can't choose what crimes you'll be a detective about.You just have to get a suspicious circumstance, and then you look for aclue and follow it up. It will come in some time or other. I felt, myself, we had lost a chance of finding out a great deal aboutkings and queens. And thenshe said, 'I write serious poetry like yours myself; too, but I have apiece here that I think you will like because it's about a boy.' That was one way we had of knowing that the fortunes of theancient House of Bastable were really fallen. Being Detectives4. And I generally do. They will not let you play with fire Or trip your sister up with wire, They grudge the tea-tray for a drum, Or booby-traps when callers come. ', 'Yes,' said Dora; 'we came across the Heath. It might be only yesterday so well do I remember every word he spoke. 0000003486 00000 n There was a manthere inside, in a glass case, as if he was a museum, and he told us towrite down our names and our business. Two-pennyworth of coconut candy--it was got in Greenwich,where it is four ounces a penny--three apples, some macaroni--thestraight sort that is so useful to suck things through--some raw rice,and a large piece of cold suet pudding that Alice nicked from the larderwhen she went to get the rice and macaroni. I wonder he didn'tbegin long before--but Alice fetched him one of the dried fruits we gaveFather for his birthday. There are twenty-four, counting the little ones on the sleevesthat don't undo. Why, what a bump on your poorhead! ButOswald knows when to be generous; so he said--, 'Look here! We had twoeach. We got six Catherine wheels and four rockets; twohand-lights, one red and one green; a sixpenny maroon; twoRoman-candles--they cost a shilling; some Italian streamers, a fairyfountain, and a tourbillon that cost eighteen-pence and was very nearlyworth it. ', 'Well,' Dora said, 'I'm very sorry it happened to Albert--I'd rather ithad been one of us. Dicky thought it ought to be something fat, because coiners are always adesperate gang; and the machinery they make the coins with is so heavyand handy for knocking down detectives. Dicky said poetry was rot--and he was glad hehadn't got to make a fool of himself. CONTENTS. You see we had three good reasons for trying H. Index of The Story of the Treasure Seekers, Download The Story of the Treasure Seekers pdf. And Albert-next-door began to cry. Thankyou for your nice, manly little speech. ', 'It's no use watching to-night,' Dicky said; 'if it's only burglars theywon't come again. She said she didn't, andDicky was very disagreeable. 'This promises to be a protracted if agreeable task,' said Albert-next-door's uncle, rubbing his hands and looking at the hole with Albert'shead in it. Let's ask Albert's unclefirst.'. By this time Eliza had opened the door, and we thought it best to takehim in without any more parlaying. A great deal of your comfort and happiness depends onhaving a good General. He heard them crash and rattle and crack, andthen his head struck against an iron pillar used for holding up thenext-door veranda. Then we showed her how to play cross-touch, and puss in the corner, andtag. So I said--, 'It's H. We got a sheet of paper out of an old exercise-book, and we made H. O.prick his own thumb, because he is our little brother and it is our dutyto teach him to be brave. Oswald didn't so much mind paying for the beastly scissors, but he hatesinjustice of every kind. I'm sure no one would ever do murdering _twice_. 'That's a good idea,' said he. H. O. couldn't come either, but hecame to the station to see us off, and waved his cap and called out'Good hunting!' Noel was quite tiresome for ever so long after we found the Princess.He would keep on wanting to go to the Park when the rest of us didn't,and though we went several times to please him, we never found that dooropen again, and all of us except him knew from the first that it wouldbe no go. But she really began to laugh at last andnot to look quite so like a doll. ', 'You should have thought of that before,' said Dicky; 'you're coming inwith us. Oswald said if Dicky went he should, because he was the eldest; andAlice said, 'If any one goes it ought to be me, because I thought ofit.'. Pincherworked too--he is our dog and he is very good at digging. 's fault as much as mine, anyhow. Being Bandits8. Linux: After downloading, right-click the file and select "Open with 'Wine Program Loader'". So, somehow or other nearly all the money got spent, and weagreed that we must let the advertisement run loose a little longer. That is so like Dora. said Hildegarde with a deepsigh, "we must look our last on this ancestral home"'--and then some oneelse says something--and you don't know for pages and pages where thehome is, or who Hildegarde is, or anything about it. verycrossly. We saw him coming over the Heath just as we were deciding to go home totea. Directly shewas left alone in that tree she made a bolt to tell Albert's uncle allabout it and bring him to our rescue in case the coiner's gang was avery desperate one. There are six of us besides Father.Our Mother is dead, and if you think we don't care because I don't tellyou much about her you only show that you do not understand people atall. He was standing looking at alittle girl; she was the funniest little girl you ever saw. Dicky said, 'My eye!' Sometimes we get Eliza to put lunch in a basket, and we go up to thePark. 'Do they pay for it?' ', 'It's fourpence--something; I can't do fractions,' said Dicky; 'thereare seven of us, you see. The gas was lighted and the electric lights. He digs forrats in the dustbin sometimes, and gets very dirty. But he never put Noel's poetry in the Daily Recorder. Others want to carry documents around with them on their mobile phones and read while they are on the move. We spent a good deal of that on presents for Father'sbirthday. H. O. didn't like it, but he agreed to do it,and I helped him a little because he was so slow, and when he saw thered bead of blood getting fatter and bigger as I squeezed his thumb hewas very pleased, just as I had told him he would be. He was lying on hisback on the sofa, kicking his legs. You may think we had no chains, but you are wrong, because we used tokeep two other dogs once, besides Pincher, before the fall of thefortunes of the ancient House of Bastable. I had forgotten to feed my rabbits and I woke upand remembered it. Don't you think Noel and I are aunt and nephew poets, orsome relationship of that kind? Iremember Mother teaching me and Dora that, when we were quite little. But last night _I saw alight in the windows_. We thought he was right, but we wished he had told us he couldn'tafford it. 'You can't go by that. Get Free The Compass Of The Stars Thea Stilton And The Treasure Seekers 2 Textbook and unlimited access to our library by created an account. It wouldn't matter about not having horses, becausecoaches have gone out too. If I were really a common boy I should say itwas a lie. But I'll say last. Saying buns made us think of lunch, so we had it; and when we had donewe scratched a hole under a tree and buried the papers, because we knowit spoils pretty places to leave beastly, greasy papers lying about. She said, 'I think we might try the divining-rod. And all the time Oswald was looking Dicky was pulling at his jacket tomake him get down and let Dicky have a squint. Itwas different, of course, with the prophets of old. 'Well, I fear that yourchances of success are small. ', The Princess put down the cat very carefully and said--. So he agreedto drop it. Good old Kipling! 'Hist, an unwary traveller approaches!' 'Well, that's lucky, at all events,' said Albert-next-door's uncle. The Story of the Treasure Seekers is a novel by E. Nesbit.First published in 1899, it tells the story of Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius (H. We did tell Father about it, and he said it was all right, and when helooked at the card he told us we were highly honoured, for the ladywrote better poetry than any other lady alive now. It frightened us horribly. We weren'tgoing to get into a row with grown-up people--especially strangers--andno true bandit would ever stoop to ask a ransom from the relations ofthe poor and needy. Andshe begged us not to, and we talked about it in the tree till we wereall quite hoarse with whispering. Alice is a jolly sight too fond of asking grown-up people things. 0000002510 00000 n 0000039525 00000 n You can also read the full text online using our ereader. Ellis is a very obliging hairdresser. It made a lovely straw pallet, and took ever so long tomake--but Albert-next-door has yet to learn what gratitude really is.We got the bread trencher for the wooden platter where the prisoner'scrusts were put--they were not mouldy, but we could not wait till theygot so, and for the ewer we got the toilet jug out of the spare-roomwhere nobody ever sleeps. We stepped up. I often wonder whether they Ever made up our kinds of play-- If they were always good as gold And only did what they were told. But I think crackers and squibs are a mistake. But theshutters were up. She always begins to take part in aplay just when the rest of us are getting tired of it. 'Let me go in feet first,' said Albert-next-door. We wereto call upon him to surrender his arms, and then bring him home and puthim in the deepest dungeon below the castle moat; then we were to loadhim with chains and send to his friends for ransom. He wears frilly collars and velvetknickerbockers. Thebooks are written by a gentleman named Gaboriau, and Albert's uncle saysthey are the worst translations in the world--and written in vileEnglish. I wanted to punch his head. If you think so you little know what girls are. Do you think they would help tosmooth the path to Fame? We said we thought not, but she pulled a real silver box out of herpocket and showed us; they were just flat, round chocolates. We were to lurk in ambush there, and waylay an unwary traveller. Whether it turns out a murder or a missing willis just a fluke. They were rathernice things. 'We only heard him once, close enough to understand, and then he said,"The curse of the country, sir--ruin and desolation!" ', The boy said he'd better write by post. 'I beg your pardon?' He went red and hewent white, and then he got crimson, as if you were rubbing more andmore crimson lake on a palette. We had just finished eating the things we had saved, atthe peril of our lives, from the st-sinking vessel. When we came out we walked a long way, and when we asked a policeman hesaid we'd better go back through Smithfield. 0000011492 00000 n Puffin Books, 1986 (originally published 1899), 208 pages. Read Online. Oswald did not say anything to any one, but next day, as the shadows ofeve were falling, he crept away, and wrote on a piece of paper, 'I wantto speak to you,' and shoved it through the hole like a heart in the topof the next-door shutters. The Cavern. The titular Treasure Seekers are rewarded by a boon, surely, but it isn't the boon they were expecting. in big letters. 0000005460 00000 n Oswald picked it up. Then the servants left and there was onlyone, a General. if anythinghappened. Well, what about this poetry of yours? We fenced him into a corner with the old wirenursery fender and all the chairs, instead of putting him in the coal-cellar as we had first intended. You should never be afraid to own that perhaps you weremistaken--but it is cowardly to do it unless you are quite sure you arein the wrong. ', 'As much as ever you can,' said Noel. The Story of the Treasure Seekers: Characters Dora Horace Noel Alice Dicky But if hehad seen them pouring the base molten metal into tin moulds the shape ofhalf-crowns he would not have been half so astonished as he was at thespectacle now revealed. He did not really expect to see the coiners at their fell work,though he had pretended to when we were talking in the tree. When we have dugdeep enough we shall find a great pot of red clay, full of gold andprecious jewels.'. 'You mustn't do things you are forbidden to do,' Dora said; but Dickyshowed us that there was some more grass beyond the shrubs with only agravel path between. And,Dicky, don't be an idiot: do dry up and let's hear what Noel's ideais.'. Download The Story of the Treasure Seekers pdf File size: 0.3 MB What's this? Sowe held a council. When we were eating it Noel said, 'I wish I could give _her_ some!It is very good.'. There was no furnace, and no base metal, no bearded men in leathernaprons with tongs and things, but just a table with a table-cloth on itfor supper, and a tin of salmon and a lettuce and some bottled beer.And there on a chair was the cloak and the hat of the mysteriousstranger, and the two people sitting at the table were the two youngestgrown-up daughters of the lady next door, and one of them was saying--, 'So I got the salmon three-halfpence cheaper, and the lettuces are onlysix a penny in the Broadway, just fancy! Some of the recordings are rot because the reader doesnât seem to like the children, but Mr. Prebbleâs reading is A-1. And we looked too, and therewere two prim ladies with little mouths and tight hair. Noel's Princess7. because we cried And everybody cried inside When they came out their eyes were red-- And it was your doing Father said. Recommended for: ages 8-14 or 6-12 as a read-aloud. and wouldn't the others be sick to think theyhadn't been in this! 'I'll dig with myboots--I will truly, honour bright.'. They told us the Editor wasn't there, but at another office. It was a half-crown. He called another gentleman and said something we couldn'thear. Lord Tottenham11. 'I don't like worms neither.' He picked up Oswald andcarried the insensible body of the gallant young detective to the wall,laid it on the top, and then climbed over and bore his lifeless burdeninto our house and put it on the sofa in Father's study. It's your first guinea, but it won't be your last.Now go along home, and in about ten years you can bring me some morepoetry. 'Another is to get a paper and find twoadvertisements or bits of news that fit. But now he said, 'I've made a poem about you. 'Only I shall look for the Princessall by myself. I shall treasure it, I assure you.'. Now don't begin again, Baby, there's nothing to cryabout; straw will be your pallet; beside you the gaoler will set aewer--a ewer is only a jug, stupid; it won't eat you--a ewer with water;and a mouldering crust will be your food.'. As we came up we heard her say to Noel--'Who areyou? It is fundamentally important that the reader understand this storyâs narrator in a sympathetic way. It is so very sad indeed. Our plan was this. It was not at all amusing. But Dicky said he was going to see; if there was a reward for findingout things like this he would like to have the reward. Some of them are ratherdifficult: and I'm certain some of them are wrong--and we must alwaysremember that wrong things--'. 'Let's see, that's fivepence each for you. We shall get lots of ideas out ofthem.' When we'd eaten everything there was, Alice whispered--, 'I see the white witch bear yonder among the trees! You come out then at the top of the hill, where the big guns arewith the iron fence round them, and where the bands play on Thursdayevenings in the summer. So Oswald wrote--, OSWALD BASTABLE NOEL BASTABLE BUSINESS VERY PRIVATE INDEED, Then we waited on the stone stairs; it was very draughty. But Noel alwaysdrinks out of the cup. So Ibacked him up by saying--, 'Look at the price penny stamps are since the coal strike!'. The Compass of the Stars (Thea Stilton and the Treasure Seekers #2) by Thea Stilton. 'We might wait a year or two,' said Noel. ', He rang a tingly bell, and the boy brought in a tray with a teapot and athick cup and saucer and things, and he had to fetch another tray forus, when he was told to; and we had tea with the Editor of the DailyRecorder. May 12, 2020 PottWab Regional Library marked it as to-read So we let him get in feet first--and he did it very slowly and at lasthe was in, and only his head sticking out into the hole; and all therest of him in the tunnel. 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