Five on a hike together

A half-term holiday enables Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy to reunite and make off on a hiking tour.

Hoping to make sleeping arrangements at farmhouses and inns along the way, the children set off, only to have their plans interrupted by Timmy, who foolishly chases a rabbit and injures himself. George insists on him being seen by a Vet, and the children split up, only to be plunged into yet another thrilling adventure. Dick and Anne, when parted from Julian and George, manage to end up at the wrong farmhouse, at which Dick receives a strange message in the middle of the night, actually intended for a man called 'Dirty Dick': a message which includes some key clues to a mystery…

Enid Blyton

Five on a hike together

The Famous Five - 10

ePub r1.2

Titivillus 27.08.2020

Título original: Five on a hike together

Enid Blyton, 1951

Ilustraciones: Eileen Alice Soper

Diseño de cubierta: Eileen Alice Soper

Editor digital: Titivillus

ePub base r2.1

Chapter One

A letter from Julian

“Anne!” shouted George, running after her cousin as she went along to her classroom. “Anne! I’ve just been down to the letter-board and there’s a letter from your brother Julian, I’ve brought it for you.”

Anne stopped. “Oh thanks,” she said. “What can Julian want? He only wrote a few days ago - it’s most extraordinary for him to write again so soon. It must be something important.”

“Well, open it and see,” said George. “Hurry up - I’ve got a maths class to go to.”

Anne ripped open the envelope. She pulled out a sheet of notepaper and read it quickly. She looked up at George, her eyes shining.

“George! Julian and Dick have got a few days off at our half-term week-end! Somebody’s won a wonderful scholarship or something, and the boys have got two days tacked on to a week-end to celebrate! They want us to join them in a hike, and all go off together.”

“What a glorious idea!” said George, “Good old Julian. I bet he thought of that. Let’s read the letter, Anne.”

But before she could read it a mistress came along. “Georgina! You should be in class - and you too, Anne.”

George scowled. She hated to be called by her full name. She went off without a word. Anne tucked the letter into her pocket and rushed off joyfully. Half-term with her brothers, Julian and Dick - and with George and Timmy the dog. Could anything be better?

She and George talked about it again after morning school. “We get from Friday morning till Tuesday,” said George. “The boys are getting the same. What luck! They don’t usually have a half-term in the winter term.”

“They can’t go home because the painters are in our house,” said Anne. “That’s why I was going home with you, of course. But I’m sure your mother won’t mind if we go off with the boys. Your father never likes us in the middle of the term.”