Paddington Turns Detective and Other Funny Stories by Michael Bond

Author:Michael Bond
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2018-02-11T16:00:00+00:00

Even the tent looked quite different to the one shown on the last page of the instructions. The one there was not unlike a small house, with the man in shorts looking as fresh as a daisy and smiling all over his face as he stepped out through a door in the side and waved to a crowd of admiring onlookers. As he mopped his brow and looked at Mr Brown’s tent, even Paddington had to admit to himself that it was more like a bundle of old washing with several lumps sticking out of the side.

He hurried all the way round peering at it closely, but there was nowhere anyone could possibly crawl through let alone any sign of a door. Worse still, far from there being any sign of a smiling Admiral, he seemed to have disappeared altogether.

Paddington anxiously tapped one of the lumps in the side with his hammer. “Are you there, Mr Grundy?” he called.

“Grr,” came an explosion from within. “THAT WAS MY HEAD!”

Paddington jumped back as if he had been shot and nearly fell over one of the guy-ropes in his haste to escape.

“Let me out, bear!” roared the Admiral. “I’ll have you in irons for this!”

Paddington didn’t like the sound of being put in irons at all and he hurriedly consulted the instruction book again in case he had turned over two pages at once by mistake, but there wasn’t even a section on how to take the tent down again once it was up, let alone anything about missing campers.

He tried pulling hard on the guy-ropes, but it only seemed to make matters worse, and the harder he pulled the more the Admiral bellowed.

“Paddington!” exclaimed Mrs Brown, as they reached him just in time to be greeted by a particularly loud yell from the Admiral. “What on earth’s going on?”

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