JSM - Edition Three

A dventure T ime - continued

“No, we should explore the passage a bit more” said Oliver. Chase barked WOOF!

“Shh. Keep quiet Chase”, whispered Oliver.

“Come on then, let’s go and explore the passage,” Oliver said impatiently. So they walked slowly around the passage, but suddenly Chase growled when he saw something strange. Chase said “WOOF!” for attention, and Oliver and Isabella looked at Chase to see why he wanted attention. “What’s the matter” asked Alexander. As he looked over, he saw a box on a shelf. Alexander, Isaac, Isabella and Oliver looked over the box. Isaac opened up the strange box and he saw a whole lot of rubbish. He fiddled with all of the junk and said, “Oh blow! There’s nothing in here that’s worth anything” but then before he threw it away in the damp, he suddenly noticed there was a map of the tunnel inside. “Hey guys, look!” Alexander called out excitedly, they all looked at the map and saw a room. “That’s funny, there’s an X marks the spot on that room in the map” Isabella said with excitement. On his face Oliver winked to Alexander, Alexander winked back. “Can we go camping in that room?” asked Isabella with a grin. “Well, we must ask mother before we go off on our own” said Isaac doubtfully. So they turned around and walked back to the boat. Oliver rowed back home with Chase by his side. They rowed back and then, went up Clover’s Road and over the hill. They arrived at their house and went straight to the kitchen.

“Where have you been?” asked mother.

“Well, we were following Chase outside, and he made us follow him all the way to the cove, and then into a tunnel and then…”

“Okay, Okay I don’t need the whole story”, said mother.

“WOOF!” said Chase impatiently.

“Okay, well, we were thinking we could maybe go camping here” said Alexander. Alexander showed mother the map and where the X marks the spot was on the map.

“Uhh… Okay, but just for one week.” said mother.

“YES!” they all cried.

“Well then we better get busy packing your cases” said mother and they all set to work.

Oliver was the first person to finish packing, then Alexander was all packed. And soon all of them were packed.

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