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Quotation from The Railway Children by E. Nesbit

“How lucky we DID put on our red flannel petticoats!”

E. Nesbit (spoken by Phyllis)

The Railway Children, Chapter VI, Saviours of the train (Project Gutenberg #1874)

Portrait of E. Nesbit

After the train stops short of the landslide, Phyllis thinks of the luck of the red flannel.

Citation: "How lucky we DID put on our red flannel petticoats!" — E. Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter VI, Saviours of the train (Project Gutenberg #1874). (id the-railway-children-q3)

Portrait: Nesbit-railway001, C. E. Brock (illustrator) / Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., Public domain.

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