The Bastable stories from The Story of the Treasure Seekers were first published between 1894 and October 1899 in an assortment of periodicals: Nister's Holiday Annual, the Illustrated London News and its supplement Father Christmas, The Pall Mall Magazine, and the Windsor Magazine.[2]
The order in which the chapters appeared was changed for the one-volume publication in 1899. Some of them also underwent extensive rewriting.
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The Question and Answer section for The Story of the Treasure Seekers is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Capter 14 is pretty short. Check it out below:
http://www.classicbookshelf.com/library/e_nesbit/the_story_of_the_treasure_seekers/13/
What chapter are you referring to?
The narrator hates story beginnings with "ancestral home”’
There are some things I must tell before I begin to tell about the treasure-seeking, because I have read books myself, and I know how beastly it is when a story begins, “‘Alas!” said...
