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Oswald Bastable and Others
E. Nesbit
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Dicky and I had a three-mile spin before dinner, and only fell off five times between us. Three spills were Dicky's, one was Oswald's, and one was when we ran into each other. The bikes were totally uninjured.
As time ran its appointed course we got a bit used to the bikes, and, finding that you cannot ride all day and all night, we began to look at the books. Only one of them comes into this story. It was called 'The Youth's Manual of Scientific and Mechanical Recreation,' and, of course, we none of us read it till we'd read everything else, and then we found it wasn't half bad. It taught you how to make all sorts of things—galvanic batteries, and kites, and mouse-traps, and how to electroplate things, and how to do wood-carving and leather-work. We tried as many of the things as we had money for, and some of them succeeded. Then we made a fire-balloon.
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Community Reviews
The nice thing about E Nesbit is how the length of time between reading one of her books doesn't matter because it always feels like you're coming home.
Nice selection of other stories, in the vein of some of her other short story collections--a lot of fairy tales and magic-related ones.
I was surprised and somewhat disappointed to realize that this book was not just about the Bastable family. In fact, only the first third of the book chronicles their adventures, and the rest of the book is taken up with various short stories of a fantastical nature. Despite my initial disappointmen
This has been a pretty good collection of short stories. At first I felt it could be a little too childish. As in I couldn't really relate to the stories. Then they started to get a bit better, then suddenly the content changes completely and it becomes more fairy tails. All the same I am glad I rea