Five Get Into a Fix by Enid Blyton Read Free Book Online

comfortable chairs and spread their legs out to the fire.
    “Ha! This is good!” said Dick. “I couldn"t have walked another step. I don"t believe I can even go up the stairs to wash. We"ve walked MILES!”
    They told the girls about their day, and when they described the little summer chalet, the two girls listened eagerly.
    “Oh - I wish we"d gone with you,” said Anne, longingly. “Timmy would have been quite al right, wouldn"t he, George? We"ve decided it"s only a skin-wound. Actually, you can hardly see it now.”
    “But all the same, I"m going back home tomorrow,” said George, determinedly. “I"m sorry I made such a fuss this morning - but honestly I thought Timmy had been badly bitten.
    Thank goodness he wasn"t. Stil , I"m not risking such a thing again. If I stay on here with him, he"s sure to have those three dogs attacking him sometime or other, and he might be kil ed. I don"t want to upset your holiday - but I can NOT stay on here with Tim.”
    “Al right, old thing,” said Julian, soothingly. “Don"t get so up-in-the-air about it. There -
    you"ve gone and started your cough again! Do you know, Dick and I haven"t coughed once today!”
    “Nor have I,” said Anne. “The air is marvel ous here. I think I ought to go back with George, though, Ju. She"d be miserable all by herself at home.”
    “Listen,” said Julian. “We"ve got an idea, Dick and I - one that means old George won"t have to go home, and...”
    “Nothing wil make me stop here,” interrupted George at once. “NOTHING!”
    “Give me a chance to tell you what I"ve got up my sleeve,” protested Julian. “It"s about that mountain-hut we"ve been to - Dick and I thought it would be a marvel ous idea if we could all five of us go and spend our time there - instead of here. We"d be ABSOLUTELY on our own then - the way we like to be!”
    “Oh yes!” said Anne at once, delighted. They all three looked at George. She smiled suddenly.
    “Yes - that would be fun. I"d like that. I don"t suppose those dogs would come near there.
    And how heavenly to be on our own! ”
    “Mrs. Jones said that her son Morgan told her we"re going to have heavy fal s of snow!”
    said Anne. “We could spend all day long on those slopes with our toboggans and skis. Oh, George - what a pity Timmy can"t ski! We"ll have to leave him at the hut when we go off skiing!”
    “Do you suppose Mrs. Jones wil mind us going off there?” said Dick.
    “I don"t think so,” said Anne. “She was telling us today that parties of children go there alone in the summer, while their parents stay and have a peaceful time down here. I don"t see why she shouldn"t let us go. We"ll ask her when she comes in with our high tea. I said we wouldn"t have tea and supper - we"d just have one big meal. We didn"t know what time you"d be back - and George and I had such an enormous dinner in the middle of the day that we knew we wouldn"t want tea.”
    “Yes. I"d rather have a big meal now, too,” said Julian, yawning widely. “I"m afraid al I shal want to do afterwards is to go up to bed and fall asleep. I"m marvel ouslp tired. In fact, I could go to sleep this very minute! I suppose you girls have been indoors al day long because of Timmy?”
    “No. We took it in turns to go for a walk without him” said Anne. “George hasn"t let him put his nose outside the door. Poor Timmy - he just couldn"t understand it, and he whined and whined!”
    “Never mind - he"ll enjoy himself if we can go up to that hut,” said George, who was very cheerful indeed now. “I do hope we can. It would be glorious fun.”
    “Ju - come and wash,” said Dick, seeing that Julian had his eyes closed already. “Julian!
    Come up and wash, I tell you - you don"t want to miss your meal, do you?”
    Julian groaned and dragged himself up the stone stairway. But once he had sluiced himself in cold water he felt much better, and very hungry indeed. So did Dick.
    “We didn"t tell the girls about that funny little