{"product_id":"2940013850866","title":"THE WOULDBEGOODS","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                              PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE JUNGLE                                                       1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE WOULDBEGOODS                                                20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBILL'S TOMBSTONE                                                43\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE TOWER OF MYSTERY                                            63\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE WATER-WORKS                                                 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE CIRCUS                                                     111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBEING BEAVERS; OR, THE YOUNG EXPLORERS (ARCTIC OR OTHERWISE)   135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE HIGH-BORN BABE                                             159\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHUNTING THE FOX                                                178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SALE OF ANTIQUITIES                                        201\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE BENEVOLENT BAR                                             224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS                                        243\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE DRAGON'S TEETH; OR, ARMY-SEED                              267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eALBERT'S UNCLE'S GRANDMOTHER; OR, THE LONG-LOST                292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eILLUSTRATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'AND PATRIOTIC,' SAID HE\"                         _Frontispiece_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"WE LET THE HOSE PLAY PERSEVERINGLY\"               _Facing p._ 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'LITTLE BEASTS!' SAID DICK\"                           \"       30\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"DENNY HELD ALICE'S AND NOËL'S HANDS\"                  \"       84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"DICKY DRAGGED THE TWO HEAVY BARS\"                     \"       98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'OH, DEAR! OH, DEAR!'\"                                \"      104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"HE SAT DOWN IN THE HEDGE TO LAUGH PROPERLY\"           \"      128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"FOUND HIMSELF THE DEGRADED NURSE-MAID\u003cbr\u003eOF A SMALL BUT FURIOUS KID\"                            \"      172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?'\"                               \"      192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"THEN WE PUT IN THE JUGS AND FILLED\u003cbr\u003eIT UP WITH EARTH\"                                      \"      212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'I THINK YOU MUST LET ME LOOK INSIDE'\"                \"      222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"OSWALD ACTUALLY HIT OUT AT THE BIG MAN\"               \"      240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A DOG-CART WITH A YOUNG LADY IN IT\"                   \"      256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"SO WE LED HIM ALONG TO THE AMBUSH\"                    \"      282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE COUNCIL IN THE APPLE-TREE                          \"      292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'AND ARE YOU GOING TO MARRY THIS LADY?'\"              \"      304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE WOULDBEGOODS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE JUNGLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Children are like jam: all very well in the proper place, but you can't\u003cbr\u003estand them all over the shop--eh, what?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese were the dreadful words of our Indian uncle. They made us feel\u003cbr\u003every young and angry; and yet we could not be comforted by calling him\u003cbr\u003enames to ourselves, as you do when nasty grown-ups say nasty things,\u003cbr\u003ebecause he is not nasty, but quite the exact opposite when not\u003cbr\u003eirritated. And we could not think it ungentlemanly of him to say we were\u003cbr\u003elike jam, because, as Alice says, jam is very nice indeed--only not on\u003cbr\u003efurniture and improper places like that. My father said, \"Perhaps they\u003cbr\u003ehad better go to boarding-school.\" And that was awful, because we know\u003cbr\u003efather disapproves of boarding-schools. And he looked at us and said, \"I\u003cbr\u003eam ashamed of them, sir!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYour lot is indeed a dark and terrible one when your father is ashamed\u003cbr\u003eof you. And we all knew this, so that we felt in our chests just as if\u003cbr\u003ewe had swallowed a hard-boiled egg whole. At least, this is what Oswald\u003cbr\u003efelt, and father said once that Oswald, as the eldest, was the\u003cbr\u003erepresentative of the family, so, of course, the others felt the same.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd then everybody said nothing for a short time. At last father said:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You may go--but remember--\" The words that followed I am not going to\u003cbr\u003etell you. It is no use telling you what you know before--as they do in\u003cbr\u003eschools. And you must all have had such words said to you many times. We\u003cbr\u003ewent away when it was over. The girls cried, and we boys got out books\u003cbr\u003eand began to read, so that nobody should think we cared. But we felt it\u003cbr\u003edeeply in our interior hearts, especially Oswald, who is the eldest and\u003cbr\u003ethe representative of the family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe felt it all the more because we had not really meant to do anything\u003cbr\u003ewrong. We only thought perhaps the grown-ups would not be quite pleased\u003cbr\u003eif they knew, and that is quite different. Besides, we meant to put all\u003cbr\u003ethe things back in their proper places when we had done with them before\u003cbr\u003eany one found out about it. But I must not anticipate (that means\u003cbr\u003etelling the end of a story before the beginning. I tell you this because\u003cbr\u003eit is so sickening to have words you don't know in a story, and to be\u003cbr\u003etold to look it up in the dicker).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe are the Bastables--Oswald, Dora, Dicky, Alice, Noël, and H. 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