THE HAPPY ADVENTURERS

[Illustration: YOU CALLED ME, SO I CAME]

The Happy Adventurers

BY

LYDIA MILLER MIDDLETON



To Alastair and Margaret

"I tell this tale, which is strictly true, Just by way of convincing
you How very little, since things were made, Things have altered in
the building trade." --Kipling.



CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. HOW IT BEGAN
II. THE BUILDERS, OR THE LITTLE HOUSE
III. THE FORTUNE-MAKERS, OR THE CHERRY-GARDEN
IV. THE TREASURE-HUNTERS, OR THE DUKE'S NOSE
V. THE GOLD-DIGGERS, OR THE MIRACLE
VI. THE GRAPE-GATHERERS, OR WHO WAS MR. SMITH?