The Island of Adventure (Adventure (MacMillan)) by Enid Blyton

Author:Enid Blyton [Blyton, Enid]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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the next exciting book in Enid

Blytons

thrilling Adventure series

1

Now for the holidays!

Two girls sat on a window-seat

in their school study. One had

red wavy hair, and so many

freckles that it was impossible

to count them. The other had

dark hair that stuck up in front

in an amusing tuft.

‘One more day and then the

hols begin,’ said red-haired

Lucy-Ann, looking at Dinah out

of curious green eyes. ‘I’m

longing to see Jack again. A

whole term is an awfully long

time to be away from him.’

‘Well, I don’t mind being

away from my brother!’ said

Dinah, with a laugh. ‘Philip’s not

bad, but he does make me

wild, always bringing in those

awful animals and insects of

his.’

‘It’s a good thing there’s only

one day between our breaking-

up days,’ said Lucy-Ann. ‘We

shall be home first – and we

can have a look round, and

then the next day we shall

meet the boys – hurrah!’

‘I wonder what this place is

like, that Mother has taken for

the hols,’ said Dinah. ‘I’ll get

out her letter and read it again.’

She fished in her pocket for

the letter and took it out. She

skimmed it through.

‘She doesn’t say very much.

Only that she wants our home

to be decorated and cleaned,

and so she has taken a cottage

somewhere in the hills for us to

stay in these hols,’ said Dinah.

‘Here’s the letter.’

Lucy-Ann took it, and read it

with interest. ‘Yes – it’s a place

called Spring Cottage, and it’s

on the side of Castle Hill. She

says it’s rather a lonely sort of

place, but packed with wild

birds, so Jack will be very

pleased.’

‘I can’t understand your

brother being so mad on birds,’

said Dinah. ‘He’s just as bad

about birds as Philip is about

insects and animals.’

‘Philip is marvellous with

animals, I think,’ said Lucy-Ann,

who had a great admiration for

Dinah’s

brother.

‘Do

you

remember that mouse he

trained to take crumbs from

between his teeth?’

‘Oh, don’t remind me of those

things!’ said Dinah, with a

shudder. She could not bear

even a spider near her, and

bats and mice made her squeal.

Lucy-Ann

thought

it

was

amazing that she should have

lived so many years with an

animal-loving boy like Philip,

and yet still be afraid of things.

‘He does tease you, doesn’t

he?’

she

said

to

Dinah,

remembering how Philip had

often put earwigs under Dinah’s

pillow, and black beetles in her

shoes. He really was a terrible

tease when he was in the

mood. No wonder Dinah had

such a temper!

‘I wonder how Kiki has got on

this term,’ said Dinah.

Kiki was Jack’s parrot, an

extremely clever bird, who

could imitate voices and sounds

in a most remarkable manner.

Jack had taught her many

phrases, but Kiki had picked up

many many more herself,

especially from a cross old

uncle that Lucy-Ann and Jack

had once lived with.

‘Kiki wasn’t going to be

allowed to be at school with

Jack this term,’ said Lucy-Ann

sadly. ‘It’s an awful pity – but

still he got a friend in the town

to look after her for him, and he

goes to see her every day. But I

do think they might have let

him have her at school.’

‘Well, considering that Kiki

kept telling the headmaster not

to sniff, and Jack’s form master

to wipe his feet, and woke

everyone up at night by

screeching

like

a

railway

engine, I’m not surprised they

didn’t want Kiki this term,’ said

Dinah. Anyway, we’ll be able to

have her for the hols and that

will be nice. I really do like Kiki

– she doesn’t seem like a bird,

but like one of us, somehow.

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