Famous Five Go Pillaging (2)
*Chapter Two*
=The Dark Stranger=
Bill, Enid, Johnny, Liz and Paul were looking for bird's nests in Tadger's
Wood when suddenly Liz looked up and gave a little gasp.
There...staring her in the face was a lean young man with piercing blue eyes
and a cloak made fro the pelf of a white bear .
"Ik kallhoved tak di gevinstsejre," he whispered.
>From the little Yggite she knew she recognised only "kaalhoved" - a cabbage
and "gevinstsejre" meaning "prizewinning".
"Would you like to come and meet my friends?" she asked him cautiously.
He nodded.
It was only then that she noticed that he had a narmy with him. At first
glance iot looked to be about 9000 strong, with bowmen in the front, spearcarriers
on the flank and several thousand wolf pirates in the rear. She pretended not
to notcie and led her new friend into the clearing where Johnny, Paul, Bill
and Enid were looking around anxiously for her.
"Hello!" said Enid, "who's this?"
"Look out!" said Pail notcicing one of th espearmen idly running his spear
through Kipper the alynx.
"Poor Kipper," said Enid.
In the massacre that followed, Argrath was decapitated (twice) and Moirades
of Tarsh was sick (eight times). The children could hardly believe their eyes
as many thosand of the infantry wiped out the Red Emperor, a newtling that had
come to call and all of the rubble runners.
"Well!" said Enid, "this is a day!"
While they were burning the house to the ground, Bill and Johnny and Liz
slipped away to see how things were back in Tadger's wood. There, sure enough,
were piles of corpses, their parents and friends and all the neighbours. Many had
their ears cut off and bits ripped away and...
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