Five On A Treasure Island
Enid
Blyton
CONTENTS
1 A
great surprise
2 The strange cousin
3 A
queer story—and a new friend
4 An exciting afternoon
5 A
visit to the island
6 What the storm did
7
Back to Kirrin cottage
8 Exploring the wreck
9 The
box from the wreck
10 An astonishing offer
11
Off to Kirrin island
12 Exciting discoveries
13
Down in the dungeons
14 Prisoners!
15
Dick to the rescue!
16 A plan—and a narrow escape
*
17 The end of the great adventure
The
FAMOUS FIVE are
Julian,
Dick, George (Georgina by right),
Anne,
and Timothy the dog.
This
is the story how the ‘Famous Five’
came
into being, and of their very first adventure
together.
And
what an andventure it was—involving an
island,
a ruined castle, an ancient wreck—and
a
desperate treasure hunt! The children’s pluck
and
recourcefulness saved the family fortunes
and
made possible many more exciting
expeditions
for the Five.
Book
Chapter One
A GREAT SURPRISE
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“Mother,
have you heard about our summer holidays yet?” said Julian, at the
breakfast-table. “Can we go to Polseath as usual?”
“I’m
afraid not,” said his mother. “They are quite full up this year.”
The
three children at the breakfast-table looked at one another in great
disappointment. They did so love the house at Polseath. The beach was so lovely
there, too, and the bathing was fine.
“Cheer
up,” said Daddy. “I dare say we’ll find somewhere else just as good for you.
And anyway, Mother and I won’t be able to go with you this year. Has Mother
told you?”
“No!”
said Anne. “Oh, Mother—is it true? Can’t you really come with us on our
holidays? You always do.”
“Well,
this time Daddy wants me to go to Scotland with him,” said Mother. “All by
ourselves! And as you are really getting big enough to look after yourselves
now, we thought it would be rather fun for you to have a holiday on your own
too. But now that you can’t go to Polseath, I don’t really quite know where to
send you.”
“What
about Quentin’s?” suddenly said Daddy. Quentin was his brother, the children’s
uncle. They had only seen him once, and had been rather frightened of him. He
was a very tall, frowning man, a clever scientist who spent all his time
studying. He lived by the sea—but that was about all that the children knew of
him!
