E. Nesbit

Name: The Red Book Magazine, Volume 8, Number 6 — How Jake Went Home
Author: E. Nesbit

The Red Book Magazine, Volume 8… (1907)

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“The Red Book Magazine, Volume 8, Number 6 — How Jake Went Home”, published in 1907, is a work by E. Nesbit. It explores elements such as Jake, Sutton Row and Googe Street.

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E. Nesbit, The Red Book Magazine, Volume 8… (1907)

“ Being in hospital is rather like being in heaven, when you are a child and have always lived in Sutton Row. No one cuffs you or pushes you roughly out of the way. There is no scolding. There are large clean beds that jump softly when you move, and you have a bed to yourself—which Jake had never had before—and things to eat nicer than you ever dreamed of: chicken and rice pudding, and fish and mutton, and all the things some people get into the habit of turning their noses up at a nursery dinner. ”

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E. Nesbit, The Red Book Magazine, Volume 8… (1907)

“ The strawberries grew on tall trees, just like the ones in Bloomsbury Square, and my Princess bent down the branches, so that Jake could gather for himself. And she picked him a ball from the ball tree, and several buds from the tin soldier tree, and they sat and enjoyed everything on the smooth lawn in the sunshine. There is a very nice sun in the under-sea world. ”

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E. Nesbit, The Red Book Magazine, Volume 8… (1907)

“ Jake Jenkins was his name, and he lived in a very nasty street in London: a street that is a turning out of Googe Street, which turns out of the Tottenham Court Road, which turns out of Oxford Street, which is too proud to turn out of anything. Sutton Row the street was called where Jake lived and it was one of those streets where the sidewalks is always bordered with cabbage stalks and orange peel and crushed banana skins, instead of the clean green grass with daisies in it, that all sidewalks ought to be bordered with. ”

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E. Nesbit, The Red Book Magazine, Volume 8… (1907)

“ He fell right through the sea-floor, and out of the sky of that lower world on to its green meadows. And he did not hurt himself at all because the big white birds that live there came and carried him down on wings as soft as the lap of any Princess.
They laid him down in a grassy green field where there were daisies. White May bushes grew all about, and at the end of the field was a garden with a red wall round it. There were trees leaning over the garden wall, and on the trees strawberries and cherries and bananas and lettuces and oranges were growing in rich profusion. ”

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E. Nesbit, The Red Book Magazine, Volume 8… (1907)

“ Won't they run us in for setting about on the grass so free? Or p'raps you've got the key of the gate?”
“There aren't any keys here,” said my Princess—at least, if it wasn't my Princess I don't know who it could have been. “Nobody wants to lock up the grass or the strawberries or the cakes. There's plenty for everyone.”
“Don't no one never eat too much?” asked Jake, who a week before had had his lesson on this subject, illustrated by jam pudding.
“Oh no,” the Lady told him. “It's only when people aren't quite sure that there's plenty for everyone that they take too much.” ”

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E. Nesbit, The Red Book Magazine, Volume 8… (1907)

“ Jake was thinking of the furry fluff and his aunt's cough.
“Oh yes. Everyone works, and so everyone gets work done early, and there is plenty of time to play. Look, there are the children coming out of school. Don't they seem happy?” ”

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E. Nesbit, The Red Book Magazine, Volume 8… (1907)

“ And there are toys to play with—real toys: soldiers and puzzles and bricks—not just mutton-bones and bits of brick and dead mice.
Even if your legs do hurt rather badly, it is worth while to go to Hospital when you have spent all your life in Sutton Row.
“I likes the eating, and the drinking, and the lying and the ladies, and the everything,” said Jake. “I wish I 'adn't never got to go 'ome no more.”
But unfortunately nobody is allowed to stay on for ever in a hospital, except of course the doctors and nurses. ”

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E. Nesbit, The Red Book Magazine, Volume 8… (1907)

“ In London, and especially if you are poor, there are quite a lot of things you mustn't do, things that you would never think were wrong unless you had been told, and it is the policeman who tells you what these things are. ”

E. Nesbit

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