Queen Elizabeth Family by Enid Blyton

Author:Enid Blyton
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: fiction, juvenile, Action & Adventure, Family, Juvenile Fiction, General, Classics
ISBN: 9781444928105
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Published: 2015-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

7

A WONDERFUL SHIP

That first day on the Queen Elizabeth was simply marvellous to the three children. At first they wouldn’t go anywhere without their mother or father, because they really were afraid of getting lost!

“Everything’s so big,” said Belinda. “The decks are miles and miles long. It takes ages to go all round the ship on just one deck!”

They went to see the big swimming-pool, and Mummy said they might bathe there some time. They went to see the beautiful library with hundreds and hundreds of books waiting to be read. They found the children’s corner there, and each of them borrowed a book to read.

“Though goodness knows when we’ll have time to read a book on this lovely ship!” said Mike.

There were shops on the Queen Elizabeth too! The children went to look at them—all kinds of shops that sold anything the passengers wanted. How queer to have shops on a ship!

It was great fun up on the sports deck. It was windy up there, and the children had to hold on to their hats. They went to watch the grown-ups playing games.

There were games with rope rings. There were games with great wooden discs that had to be pushed very hard indeed with a big wooden pusher. That was called shuffle-board. The children waited till the grown-ups had finished playing with the shuffle-board, and then they had a try.

But they couldn’t push the great wooden counters very far! They tried their hand at throwing the rope rings on to numbered squares, and Mike was so good at that, that Daddy had a game with him. Mike nearly won!

“It’s nice up here on the sports deck,” said Belinda, her cheeks glowing with the strong breeze. “It isn’t all enclosed with glass windows like the other decks down below—you can really taste the spray up here, and feel the wind. I like it.”

The great sea spread out round them for miles. Always there was the plash-plash-plash of waves against the ship’s sides—a lovely sound. She left behind her a long white trail of foaming water.

“That’s called the wake,” said Daddy. So they watched the wake forming behind the ship, spreading away as far as they could see.

“The fishes must be very astonished when a big ship like this comes by,” said Belinda, looking down into the water.

“I should be frightened if I were a fish and I suddenly saw a great thing like this coming towards me,” said Ann. “I should swim away quickly.”

“We’re going fast now, aren’t we, Daddy?” said Mike.

Daddy nodded. “Yes—she’s a fast ship, the Elizabeth. So is her sister, the Queen Mary.”

At eleven o’clock they went downstairs and found their own deck-chairs on the deck below. Mummy said that it was about time that deck stewards brought round little cups of hot soup and biscuits for everyone.

“Good gracious!” said Belinda. “Do we really have hot soup in the middle of the morning? I do think this is a ship with good ideas!”

Sure enough the stewards appeared with trays of hot steaming soup in little bowls.

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