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The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the

Chapter V · Chapter 5

Chapter 5 of The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the is here in full — 140 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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It was not bad sport--being in London entirely on our own hook.
We asked the way to Fleet Street, where Father says all the newspaper offices are.
They said straight on down Ludgate Hill--but it turned out to be quite another way.
At least _we_ didn’t go straight on.
We got to St Paul’s.
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A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.

The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the

Chapter V · Chapter 5

Chapter 5 of The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the is here in full — 140 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/28 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
It was not bad sport--being in London entirely on our own hook.
Line 2
We asked the way to Fleet Street, where Father says all the newspaper offices are.
Line 3
They said straight on down Ludgate Hill--but it turned out to be quite another way.
Line 4
At least _we_ didn’t go straight on.
Line 5
We got to St Paul’s.

All words in this reading · 46

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all

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From this reading We asked the way to Fleet Street, where Father says all the newspaper offices are.

another

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From this reading They said straight on down Ludgate Hill--but it turned out to be quite another way.

are

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From this reading We asked the way to Fleet Street, where Father says all the newspaper offices are.

asked

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From this reading We asked the way to Fleet Street, where Father says all the newspaper offices are.

At

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From this reading At least _we_ didn’t go straight on.

bad

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From this reading It was not bad sport--being in London entirely on our own hook.

be

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From this reading They said straight on down Ludgate Hill--but it turned out to be quite another way.

being

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From this reading It was not bad sport--being in London entirely on our own hook.

but

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From this reading They said straight on down Ludgate Hill--but it turned out to be quite another way.

didn't

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From this reading At least _we_ didn’t go straight on.

down

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From this reading They said straight on down Ludgate Hill--but it turned out to be quite another way.

entirely

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From this reading It was not bad sport--being in London entirely on our own hook.

Father

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From this reading We asked the way to Fleet Street, where Father says all the newspaper offices are.

Fleet

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From this reading We asked the way to Fleet Street, where Father says all the newspaper offices are.

go

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From this reading At least _we_ didn’t go straight on.

got

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From this reading We got to St Paul’s.

Hill

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From this reading They said straight on down Ludgate Hill--but it turned out to be quite another way.

hook

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From this reading It was not bad sport--being in London entirely on our own hook.

in

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From this reading It was not bad sport--being in London entirely on our own hook.

It

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From this reading It was not bad sport--being in London entirely on our own hook.

least

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From this reading At least _we_ didn’t go straight on.

London

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Ludgate

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From this reading They said straight on down Ludgate Hill--but it turned out to be quite another way.

newspaper

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From this reading We asked the way to Fleet Street, where Father says all the newspaper offices are.

not

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From this reading It was not bad sport--being in London entirely on our own hook.

offices

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From this reading We asked the way to Fleet Street, where Father says all the newspaper offices are.

on

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From this reading It was not bad sport--being in London entirely on our own hook.

our

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From this reading It was not bad sport--being in London entirely on our own hook.

out

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From this reading They said straight on down Ludgate Hill--but it turned out to be quite another way.

own

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From this reading It was not bad sport--being in London entirely on our own hook.

Paul's

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From this reading We got to St Paul’s.

quite

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From this reading They said straight on down Ludgate Hill--but it turned out to be quite another way.

said

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From this reading They said straight on down Ludgate Hill--but it turned out to be quite another way.

says

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sport

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From this reading It was not bad sport--being in London entirely on our own hook.

St

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From this reading We got to St Paul’s.

straight

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From this reading They said straight on down Ludgate Hill--but it turned out to be quite another way.

Street

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From this reading We asked the way to Fleet Street, where Father says all the newspaper offices are.

the

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From this reading We asked the way to Fleet Street, where Father says all the newspaper offices are.

They

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From this reading They said straight on down Ludgate Hill--but it turned out to be quite another way.

to

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From this reading We asked the way to Fleet Street, where Father says all the newspaper offices are.

turned

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From this reading They said straight on down Ludgate Hill--but it turned out to be quite another way.

was

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From this reading It was not bad sport--being in London entirely on our own hook.

way

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From this reading We asked the way to Fleet Street, where Father says all the newspaper offices are.

We

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From this reading We asked the way to Fleet Street, where Father says all the newspaper offices are.

where

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From this reading We asked the way to Fleet Street, where Father says all the newspaper offices are.

Chapter 5 of The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the by E. (Edith) Nesbit holds 140 sentences, grouped into 28 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

What does chapter 5 of The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the contain?

Chapter 5 holds 140 sentences of The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the, unabridged, divided into 28 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 5 of The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the by E. (Edith) Nesbit exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 140 sentences, grouped into 28 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.

How do I study chapter 5 of The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the?

Work through the 28 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 28 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.

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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 5 can be played aloud in United States English.

Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.

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Yes. All 2984 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #770 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #770, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 248 minutes of reading across 597 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the

Words and structures a reader meets early in The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Story
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Different
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Looked
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Treasure
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