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    The Railway Children: Level 2
    The Railway Children: Level 2
    The Railway Children: Level 2
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    The Railway Children: Level 2

    By Edith Nesbit

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    Phyllis, Roberta, and Peter move from a pampered home wherethey are cared for by servants and loving parents, to a rusticcottage nearby a railway line where they have adventures
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCompass Publishing
    Release dateFeb 24, 2009
    ISBN9781599662114
    The Railway Children: Level 2

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      Book preview

      The Railway Children - Edith Nesbit

      How it All Began

      Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis were not railway children at first. They were ordinary children. They lived with their mother and father in a large house in the city. Their mother stayed at home and looked after them. She read them stories and played games with them. Their father worked in a government office and came home only on weekends.

      Roberta was the eldest, and then came Peter, and then Phyllis. When this story began, they were a happy family. They had nothing to worry about. Their father was able to pay for a cook and a maid, so their mother did not have to do a lot of housework.

      On Peter’s tenth birthday, he received a model railway engine for a present. It made real steam, and the steam made it move. But there was something wrong with it. It blew up and wouldn’t work anymore.

      When the children’s father came home that weekend, he looked at the engine.

      "I can mend it, he said, but I haven’t time now. I’ll mend it another day."

      As the family sat happily around the table eating their meal, there was a knock at the door. The maid went to answer it.

      She soon came back and said to the children’s father, There are two men to see you, sir. I have asked them in to the front room.

      The children’s father thanked the maid and went to see the two men. He was gone a long time. The children heard their father’s voice. He seemed to be shouting.

      When he came back into the dining room, he said, I must go away. I have a problem with the government.

      He left the house with the two men. The children asked their mother what was happening.

      Don’t worry, she said. Everything will be all right.

      Every day for the next week, the children’s mother left the house early in the morning and did not return until late in the evening. She looked ill and worried all the time.

      There is something wrong, the children said. They asked the cook and the maid if they knew what it was, but they would not say anything to the children.

      Then about a week after their father went away, their mother said, I’m sorry, children, but we must leave this house. We are going to live in a smaller house in the country.

      At first, the children were excited. They thought this was a good idea. However, when they got to the house in the country, they were not happy. It was small and dirty, and Roberta thought she saw rats.

      The children’s mother told them that they weren’t rats. They were just big mice. They did not really believe her,

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