The Secret of Spiggy Holes
Enid Blyton
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(, March 11, 2012)
Enid Blyton - Secret 2 - The Secret of Spiggy HolesOff for the HolidaysOne morning, at the beginning of the summer holidays, four children sat in anexpress train, feeling tremendously excited.“Now we’re really off!” said Mike. “My word - think of it - two months in alittle house by the sea! Bathing, paddling, fishing, boating - what fun weshall have!”“All the same, I wish Mummy and Daddy were coming with us,” said Nora, Mike’stwin sister. “I shall miss them - especially after being away at school allterm, and only seeing them once.”“Well, they couldn’t take the whole lot of us with them on their lecturetour!“ said Peggy sensibly. “They will join us at Spiggy Holes as soon as theycan.”“Spiggy Holes! Doesn’t that sound an exciting name for a holiday place?” saidJack. “Spiggy Holes - I wonder why it’s called that. I suppose there are holesor caves or something.”The four children had come home from school the day before. Nora and Peggy hadarrived back from their girls’ school, and Mike and Jack from their boys’school. They had spent the night at home with their father and mother, and nowthey were off, all alone, to Spiggy Holes.Jack was the most excited of the four, for he had never been to the seabefore! He was not really the brother of Mike, Nora, and Peggy, and had nofather and mother of his own.But the children’s parents had taken him for their own child, because he hadhelped Mike, Peggy, and Nora so much when they had run away from an unkindaunt and uncle. Captain Arnold, the children’s father, had left them at a farm....