Enid Blyton's Holiday Stories by Blyton Enid

Author:Blyton, Enid
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hachette Children's
Published: 2015-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

BILL AND David were staying at their grandmother’s, down by the sea.

They were very excited because Grandpa had been telling them about the old smugglers’ caves round by the big cliff.

‘Oh, Grandpa! Could we explore them, do you think? Should we find anything there – you know, left by the old smugglers?’ asked Bill.

Grandpa laughed. ‘No! You’ll find nothing but sand and shells and seaweed,’ he said. ‘There have been plenty of people in and out of those caves year after year. If there was anything to be found, it would have been found by now!’

‘Still, it would be fun to explore them,’ said David. ‘We could pretend we were smugglers. Come on, Bill – we’ll go this morning!’

Off they went, running down the road to the big, sandy beach, and then round the sand to where the big cliffs stuck out, steep and rocky. In these were the caves.

‘Oh, look – there’s a whole lot of Boy Scouts on the beach,’ said Bill. ‘Gosh I wish I was old enough to be a Scout. They have such fun. I bet they’re going to camp somewhere here for a week or two, and bathe, and picnic, and hike all day long! Do you think they’d let us be with them sometimes?’ But when the two small boys came near the company of Scouts they didn’t get much of a welcome.

‘You clear off, you kids,’ said one of the big boys. ‘This is our part of the beach, see? Don’t you make yourselves nuisances here.’

The small boys went off, disappointed. ‘They could just have let us watch their games,’ said Bill. ‘We wouldn’t have been a nuisance. We could even have run after their balls for them, if they went too far.’

‘Oh, never mind – let’s go and look for the caves,’ said David. ‘I’d rather explore them than watch boys who think we’re too small to be anything but nuisances.’

‘Here’s a cave,’ said Bill, and he went up to where a dark hole yawned at the foot of the cliff. ‘It’s a big one. Let’s go in.’

They went into it. The floor was of soft sand, and seaweed hung down the sides of the walls. The sea went in and out at high tide and filled the little pools at the sides of the cave.

‘It’s a nice cave, but not very exciting,’ said Bill. ‘I don’t feel as if smugglers ever came in here, do you, David? Anyway, it doesn’t lead anywhere. I mean, there are no inner caves or tunnels leading into the cliff.’

‘Let’s find another cave,’ said David. So off they went to the next one. But that was very small, and they could hardly stand upright in it. They went out again into the sunshine.

Then they noticed a stretch of rugged rocks leading up to another cave in the cliff – a cave that really did look exciting. It had quite a small entrance. The boys climbed up the rocks to it and peered inside.

‘It’s nice and dark,’ said Bill.

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