[Illustration: '"Don't break down the door! The villains may return any
moment and destroy you."'--Page 115.]
OSWALD BASTABLE
AND OTHERS
_By_
E. NESBIT
_Illustrated by_
CHARLES E. BROCK
AND
H. R. MILLAR
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_
TO
MY DEAR NIECE
ANTHONIA NESBIT