Free Five Go Off to Camp by Enid Blyton

'But I've feeling I'll have dear love of a Cecil plonked on me for the day - to show him the cows and the puppies, dear pet! Ugh! When I could be with you four and Timmy.'
    'It's bad luck,' said Julian. 'It real y is.'
    'I thought I'd better come and tel you,' said Jock. 'It's the first chance I've had, creeping up here tonight.
    I've brought some more food for you, by the way. I guessed you'd want some. I feel down in the dumps about that adventure - you know, going to see the railway yard. I was going to ask you to take me today.'
    'Well - if you can't come tomorrow either - and perhaps not the next day - what about going one night?' said Dick. 'Would you like to come up tomorrow night, about this time?
    We won't tell the girls. We'll just go off by ourselves, we three boys - and watch!'

    Jock was too thril ed to say a word. He let out a deep breath of joy. Dick laughed.
    'Don't get too thril ed. We probably shan't see a thing. Bring a torch if you've got one.
    Come to our tent and jerk my toe. I'll probably be awake, but if I'm not, that'll wake me al right! And don't say a word to anyone of course.'
    'Rather not, 'said Jock, overjoyed. 'Well -1 suppose I'd better be going. It was pretty weird coming over the moorland in the dark. There's no moon, and the stars don't give much light. I've left the food outside the tent. Better look out that Timmy doesn't get it.'
    'Right. Thanks awful y,' said Julian. Jock got out of Dick's sleeping-bag and went backwards out of the tent, with Timmy obligingly licking his nose all the way. Jock then found the bag of food and rolled it in to Julian, who put it safely under the groundsheet.
    'Good night,' said Jock, in a low voice, and they heard him scrambling over the heather. Timmy went with him, pleased at this unexpected visitor, and the chance of a midnight walk. Jock was glad to have the dog's company. Timmy went right to the farm with him and then bounded back over the moorland to the camping-place, longing to pounce on the rabbits he
    could smell here and there, but wanting to get back to George.
    In the morning Anne was amazed to find the food in her 'larder' under the gorse bush.
    Julian had popped it there to surprise her. 'Look at this!' she cried, in astonishment. 'Meat-pies - more tomatoes - eggs, wherever did they come from?'
    'Spook-train brought them in the night,' said Dick, with a grin.
    'Volcano shot them up into the air,' said Mr Luffy, who was also there. Anne threw a tea-cloth at him.
    'Tell me how it came here,' she demanded. 'I was worried about what to give you all for breakfast - and now there's more than we can possibly eat. Who put it there? George, do you know?'
    But George didn't. She glanced at the smiling faces of the two boys. 'I bet Jock was here last night,' she said to them. 'Wasn't he?' And to herself she said: 'Yes - and somehow I think they've planned something together. You won't trick me, Dick and Julian. I'l be on the lookout from now on! Wherever you go, I go too!'

    10 Hunt for a spook-train

    That day passed pleasantly enough. The children, Timmy, and Mr Luffy al went off to a pool high up on the moorlands. It was cal ed The Green Pool' because of its cucumber-green colour. Mr Luffy explained that some curious chemicals found there caused the water to look green.
    'I hope we shan't come out looking green, too,' said Dick, getting into his bathing trunks.
    'Are you going to bathe, Mr Luffy?'
    Mr Luffy was. The children expected him to be a very poor swimmer and to splash about at the edge and do very little- but to their surprise he was magnificent in the water, and could swim faster even than Julian.
    They had great fun, and when they were tired they came out to bask in the sun. The highroad ran alongside the green pool, and the children watched a herd of sheep being driven along, then a car or two came by, and final y a big army lorry. A boy sat beside the driver, and to the children's surprise he waved wildly at them.
    'Who was that?' said