Edith Nesbit 
Five Children and It [EPUB ebook] 

pub One.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The house was three miles from the station, but before the dusty hired fly had rattled along for five minutes the children began to put their heads out of the carriage window and to say, ‚Aren’t we nearly there? ‚ And every time they passed a house, which was not very often, they all said, ‚Oh, is THIS it? ‚ But it never was, till they reached the very top of the hill, just past the chalk-quarry and before you come to the gravel-pit. And then there was a white house with a green garden and an orchard beyond, and mother said, ‚Here we are!