Oswald Bastable and Others

Oswald Bastable and Others

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 This happened a very little time after we left our humble home in Lewisham, and went to live at the Blackheath house of our Indian uncle, which was replete with every modern convenience, and had a big garden and a great many greenhouses. We had had a lot of jolly Christmas presents, and one of them was Dicky's from father, and it was a printing-press. Not one of the eighteenpenny kind that never come off, but a real tip-topper, that you could have printed a whole newspaper out of if you could have been clever enough to make up all the stuff there is in newspapers. I don't know how people can do it. It's all about different things, but it is all just the same too. But the author is sorry to find he is not telling things from the beginning, as he has been taught. The printing-press really doesn't come into the story till quite a long way on. So it is no use your wondering what it was that we did print[Pg 2] with the printing-press. It was not a newspaper, anyway, and it wasn't my young brother's poetry, though he and the girls did do an awful lot of that. It was something much more far-reaching, as you will see if you wait. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 28804
Author: Nesbit, E. (Edith)
Release Date: May 14, 2009
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Brock, C. E. (Charles Edmund), 1870-1938 , Millar, H. R. (Harold Robert), 1869-1942