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Oswald Bastable and Others, by Edith Nesbit
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Title: Oswald Bastable and Others
Author: Edith Nesbit
Illustrator: Charles E. Brock H. R. Millar
Release Date: May 14, 2009 [EBook #28804]
Language: English
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OSWALD BASTABLE AND OTHERS
[Illustration: '"Don't break down the door! The villains may return any moment and destroy you."'--Page 115.]
OSWALD BASTABLE AND OTHERS
By E. NESBIT
Illustrated by CHARLES E. BROCK AND H. R. MILLAR
ERNEST BENN LIMITED LONDON
COWARD-McCANN INC NEW YORK
First re-issued in this edition 1960
Published by Ernest Benn Limited Bouverie House · Fleet Street · London · EC4 and Coward-McCann Inc 210 Madison Avenue · New York 16 · NY
Printed in Great Britain
TO MY DEAR NIECE ANTHONIA NESBIT
CONTENTS
OSWALD BASTABLE
AN OBJECT OF VALUE AND VIRTUE page 1
THE RUNAWAYS 34
THE ARSENICATORS: A TALE OF CRIME 64
THE ENCHANCERIED HOUSE 89
OTHERS
MOLLY, THE MEASLES, AND THE MISS