The Secret of Spiggy Holes

Enid Blyton - Secret 2 - The Secret of Spiggy Holes


Off for the Holidays
One morning, at the beginning of the summer holidays, four children sat in an
express train, feeling tremendously excited.
“Now we’re really off!” said Mike. “My word - think of it - two months in a
little house by the sea! Bathing, paddling, fishing, boating - what fun we
shall have!”
“All the same, I wish Mummy and Daddy were coming with us,” said Nora, Mike’s
twin sister. “I shall miss them - especially after being away at school all
term, and only seeing them once.”
“Well, they couldn’t take the whole lot of us with them on their lecture
tour!“ said Peggy sensibly. “They will join us at Spiggy Holes as soon as they
can.”
“Spiggy Holes! Doesn’t that sound an exciting name for a holiday place?” said
Jack. “Spiggy Holes - I wonder why it’s called that. I suppose there are holes
or caves or something.”
The four children had come home from school the day before. Nora and Peggy had
arrived 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 now
they were off, all alone, to Spiggy Holes.
Jack was the most excited of the four, for he had never been to the sea
before! He was not really the brother of Mike, Nora, and Peggy, and had no
father and mother of his own.
But the children’s parents had taken him for their own child, because he had
helped Mike, Peggy, and Nora so much when they had run away from an unkind
aunt and uncle. Captain Arnold, the children’s father, had left them at a farm....