Five go to Mystery Moor

George meets her match in this thirteenth FAMOUS FIVE adventure: with Henrietta (or Henry, as she prefers to be called), who is intent on acting like a boy, and the first few chapters of this fantastic book are based purely on their disliking of each other. It seems as if George’s cousins: Julian, Dick and Anne are in for an awkward time, when George refuses to let Henry join their company – but will the fiery tomboy prove to be more decent than George expected, when a mystery evolving around the atmospheric: Mystery Moor, emerges, and the children find themselves: yet again, caught up in another adventure!

Enid Blyton

Five go to Mystery Moor

The Famous Five - 13

ePub r1.2

Titivillus 27.08.2020

Título original: Five go to Mystery Moor

Enid Blyton, 1954

Ilustraciones: Eileen Alice Soper

Diseño de cubierta: Eileen Alice Soper

Editor digital: Titivillus

ePub base r2.1

Chapter One

At the stables

“We’ve been here a week and I’ve been bored every single minute!” said George.

“You haven’t,” said Anne. “You’ve enjoyed all the rides we’ve had, and you know you’ve enjoyed messing about the stables when we haven’t been out riding.”

“I tell you, I’ve been bored every single minute,” said George, quite fiercely. “I ought to know, oughtn’t I? That awful girl Henrietta too. Why do we have to put up with her?”

“Oh - Henry!” said Anne, with a laugh. “I should have thought you’d find a lot in common with another girl like yourself, who would rather be a boy, and tries to act like one!”

The two girls were lying by a haystack eating sandwiches. Round them in a field were many horses, most of which the girls either rode or looked after. Some way off was an old rambling building, and by the front entrance was a great board:

"Captain Johnson’s Riding School"

Anne and George had been staying there for a week, while Julian and Dick had gone to camp with other boys from their school. It had been Anne’s idea. She was fond of horses, and had heard so much from her friends at school what fun it was to spend day after day at the stables, that she had made up her mind to go herself.

George hadn’t wanted to come. She was sulky because the two boys had gone off somewhere without her and Anne, for a change. Gone to camp! George would have liked that, but girls were not allowed to go camping with the boys from Julian’s school, of course. It was a camp just for the boys alone.

“You’re silly to keep feeling cross because you couldn’t go camping too,” said Anne. “The boys don’t want us girls round them all the time. We couldn’t do the things they do.”

George thought differently. “I can do anything that Dick and Julian do,” she said. “I can climb, and bike for miles, can walk as far as they can, I can swim, I can beat a whole lot of boys at most things.”