TheRailwayChildren

THE RAILWAY CHILDREN By E. Nesbit To my dear son Paul Bland, behind whose knowledge of railways my ignorance confidently shelters. Contents Chapter I. The beginning of things. Chapter II. Peter's coal-mine. Chapter III. The old gentleman. Chapter IV. The engine-burglar. Chapter V. Prisoners and captives. Chapter VI. Saviours of the train. Chapter VII. For valour. Chapter VIII. The amateur firemen. Chapter IX. The pride of Perks. Chapter X. The terrible secret. Chapter XI. The hound in the red jersey. Chapter XII. What Bobbie brought home. Chapter XIII. The hound's grandfather. Chapter XIV. The End. Chapter I. The beginning of things. They were not railway children to begin with. I don't suppose they had ever thought about railways except as a means of getting to Maskelyne and Cook's, the Pantomime, Zoological Gardens, and Madame Tussaud's. They were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived with their Father and Mother in an ordinary red-brick-fronted villa, with coloured glass in the front door, a tiled passage that was called a hall, a bath-room with hot and cold water, electric bells, French windows, and a good......