The Pole Star Family by Enid Blyton

Author:Enid Blyton [Blyton, Enid]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Classics, Juvenile Fiction, Family, Action & Adventure, Juvenile, General
ISBN: 9781444928075
Google: H4flCQAAQBAJ
Amazon: B0113JMFKO
Publisher: Hachette Children's
Published: 2015-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

7. LAND AHOY!

It was lovely waking up next morning, and remembering everything. Ann sat up and reached over to Belinda’s bed. She gave her sister a poke.

“Belinda! We’re on the sea! Do wake up.”

Then Mike came in, beaming. “Are you awake? It’s a gorgeous morning. I’ve been up on deck in my dressing-gown, and the sea’s lovely. Do get up.”

They got up and washed and dressed. They went on deck, and felt the sun pouring down on them. The sky was blue and the sea was blue-purple. Everything was glorious.

There was no land to be seen at all. It was a queer feeling to stand there by the deck-rail, and see nothing but water round them, stretching for miles and miles. There was not even another ship to be seen.

“If this is the Bay of Biscay it’s jolly calm,” said Mike, half-disappointed. “I say—let’s explore the ship, shall we?”

“After breakfast,” said Mummy, coming up behind them. “Come along, there’s a lovely breakfast waiting for you—six different kinds of cereal to choose from, more grape-fruits if you want them, and about twelve different dishes to choose from: bacon and eggs, ham, fish . . .”

“I certainly shall be a sailor when I grow up!” said Mike. “You make me feel awfully hungry, Mummy.”

They explored the ship from top to toe after breakfast. They ran down both the upper and lower decks. There were countless deck-chairs there, and many people were sitting in them reading or snoozing in the sun.

The children found a swimming-pool at one end of the ship and were delighted. “Fancy a swimming-bath on a ship! We can bathe every day!” said Mike.

They found a nice sun-deck too, just under the captain’s bridge. Mummy thought it would be lovely to sit there with Granny.

“There’s everything you can possibly want on this ship,” said Mike to his mother. “Games to play on deck, places to sit, a swimming-pool, places to eat, a reading-room, that big dining-room where we have our meals, a ballroom for dancing . . . Oh, Mummy, there’s everything!”

“May we bathe?” asked Belinda. “In that lovely pool, Mummy?”

“Yes, if you like,” said Mummy, and the three went off to change. What fun they had swimming and diving and going down the chute! Ann wouldn’t go down at first, but she did at last, and loved it. Splash! She flew down into the water and gasped.

“This is a lovely holiday,” said Mike. “I love the Pole Star. She’s a jolly good ship.”

The children swam, and played deck tennis, throwing the rubber ring over the net to one another; they went down into the engine room to see the engines, and came back hot and dirty.

And then suddenly Belinda noticed something. “Look!” she said in surprise, “all the sailors have changed out of their dark-blue suits into white ones! Oh, how nice they look!”

So they had. Daddy laughed at the children’s astonished faces. “Oh, that shows we’re leaving the cold weather behind and coming into hot days. You’ll have to change into your coolest things soon too.

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