Famous Five 13 - Five Go To Mystery Moor By Enid Blyton
Chapter One AT THE STABLES ‘We’ve been here a week and I’ve been bored every single minute!’ said George. ‘You haven’t,’ said Anne. ‘You’ve enjoyed all the rides we’ve had, and you know you’ve enjoyed messing about the stables when we haven’t been out riding.’ ‘I tell you, I’ve been bored every single minute,’ said George, quite fiercely. ‘I ought to know, oughtn’t I? That awful girl Henrietta too. Why do we have to put up with her?’ ‘Oh - Henry!’ said Anne, with a laugh. ‘I should have thought you’d find a lot in common with another girl like yourself, who would rather be a boy, and tries to act like one!’ The two girls were lying by a haystack eating sandwiches. Round them in a field were many horses, most of which the girls either rode or looked after. Some way off was an old rambling building, and by the front entrance was a great board, Captain Johnson’s Riding School Anne and George had been staying there for a week, while Julian and Dick had gone to camp with other boys from their school. It had been Anne’s idea. She was fond of horses, and had heard so much from her friends at school what fun it was to spend day after day at the stables, that she had made up her mind to go herself. George hadn’t wanted to come. She was sulky because the two...