21 Five Are Together Again by Enid Blyton

Author:Enid Blyton [Blyton, Enid]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Agricola
ISBN: 9780340796351
Published: 1958-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

„That is true," said Mr Wooh. „There is nothing that I cannot do with figures. Ask me anything you like, and I wil give you the answer at once!"

„Well, Mr Wooh, answer this then," cried Tinker. „Multiply sixty-three thousand, three hundred and forty-two by eighty thousand, nine hundred and fifty-three! Ha - you can"t do that in a hurry!"

„The answer is, in figures, 5127724926," said Mr Wooh at once, with a slight bow. „That is an easy question, my boy."

„Crumbs!" said Tinker, astounded. He turned to Julian. „Is that right, Ju?"

Julian worked out the sum on paper. „Yes. Absolutely correct. Whew!" he said. „You said that as quick as lightning!"

„Let me give him a sum to do!" cried George. „What do you get if you multiply 602491 by 352, Mr Magician?"

„I get the figures 2-1-2-0-7-6-8-3-2," said Mr Wooh, immediately. And once more Julian worked out the sum on paper. He raised his head and grinned. „Yes - correct. How do you do it so quickly?"

„Magic - just a little elementary magic!" answered Mr Wooh. „Try it sometime yourself. I am sure that this boy"s father would be as quick as I am!" He looked at Tinker. „I should much like to meet your clever father, my boy," he said in his deep, foreign-sounding voice. „We would have much, so much to talk about. I have heard about his wonderful tower. A monument to his genius! Ah, you see, even we foreigners know of your father"s great work. Surely he is afraid of having his secrets stolen?"

„Oh, I don"t think so," said Tinker. „The tower is a pretty good hiding-place, and..." He stopped suddenly, and went red again as he received an even harder kick from Julian.

How could he be such an ass as to give away the fact that his father"s secret plans and models were hidden in the tower?

Julian thought it was time to take Tinker firmly away from Mr Wooh and give him a good lecture on keeping his mouth shut. He looked at his watch, and pretended to be horrified at the time. „Good gracious-do you know what the time is? Jenny wil be ringing up the police if we don"t get back straight away. Come on, Tinker, and you others, we must go.

Thanks most awful y, Grandad, for letting us share your supper."

„But we haven"t yet finished!" said Grandad. „You haven"t had enough to eat."

„We real y couldn"t eat any more," said Dick, following Julian"s determined lead. „See you tomorrow, Grandad. Good night, Grandma. Thanks very much indeed."

„We"ve stil got bananas and apples to eat," said Tinker, feeling obstinate.

„Oh, we brought those for Charlie the Chimp," said Dick, not quite truthfully. He could have boxed Tinker"s ears! Sil y little fathead, couldn"t he realize that Julian wanted to get him away from this cunning Mr Wooh? Wait til he got Tinker by himself!

Tinker found himself hustled on all sides, and felt a bit scared. Julian sounded rather fierce, he thought. Old Grandad was most astonished at

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