Bunter the Caravanner - Friardale

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'Well, we didn't! Where is it?' demanded Johnny Bull. 'In the School Field - frightful crash - smashed up - I came up to tell you because you might like to help - everybody's rushing off to help—' 'Come on, you fellows!' gasped Bob. If there was a plane crash and help was needed. Harry Wharton and Co. were not likely to remain sitting round a tea-table. Bob Cherry headed a rush for the door. 'Wow! Don't shove a fellow over!' roared Bunter. He tottered from the rush. Leaving him to totter, Harry Wharton and Co. tore away down the passage to the stairs, which they descended two or three at a time. They vanished: while the fat Owl leaned on the door-post and spluttered for breath. 'Beasts!' gasped Bunter. Then he rolled into the study. Harry Wharton and Co. in the excitement of the moment, had forgotten tea. Billy Bunter had not forgotten it. That handsome cake on the table was still uncut. A pair of little round eyes gloated over it through a pair of big round spectacles. But Billy Bunter did not immediately deal with the cake. He had no time to lose. Harry Wharton and Co. so far had no suspicion that the artful fat Owl had invented that plane crash, with a felonious eye on that cake. But it was not likely to take them long to make the discovery. At the rate they were going, it was only two or three minutes to the School Field, where they were scheduled to discover that no plane had crashed, and that nothing at all had happened. Their return was likely to be prompt - and wrathful. Minutes, even moments, were precious: Billy Bunter did not lose one of them. Having crammed a chunk from the cake into a capacious mouth, provisionally as it were, Bunter grabbed up a newspaper that lay in the armchair, hurriedly wrapped it round the cake, and rolled out of the study with his booty under a fat arm. In the Remove passage, he hesitated a moment. Bunter was hungry. He had had nothing to eat since dinner, excepting some apples he had found in Smithy's study, some toffee that some fellow had left on the table in the Rag, and half a dozen doughnuts and a pot of jam from a study cupboard. So naturally he wanted to get going on that cake without delay. But prudence prevailed. Billy Bunter was not a very bright youth, but even he was bright enough to realise that the further away he was, when Harry Wharton and Co. came back, the more comfortable it would be for him. Often as Bunter had been kicked, he had never grown to like it. So he did not head for his own study. He headed for the stairs, and his fat little legs almost twinkled with the speed he put on. He emerged from the House at a trot, and kept up the trot till he was out of gates and rolling down Friardale Lane. And not till a quarter of a mile of that leafy lane lay behind him
did he slacken to his accustomed pace: that of a very old and very tired snail. Only a few minutes after his departure, five breathless fellows came running up the stairs. For a quarter of an hour after that, they were looking for Billy Bunter. After which, with considerably deep feelings, they finished what was left of a cake-less tea.
Page 1 and 2: BUNTER THE CARAVANNER By FRANK RICH
Page 3: that that tuck was parked within th
Page 7 and 8: That cake was a good size. It had b
Page 9 and 10: Bunter anxious to get out of that v
Page 11 and 12: 'Beast! I say, don't you tell them
Page 13 and 14: 'Wow! Owl Stoppit!' yelled Bunter,
Page 15 and 16: 'I remember him,' assented Prout. '
Page 17 and 18: CHAPTER 5 BUNTER ON A BIKE 'I SAY,
Page 19 and 20: 'I'm going!' growled Johnny Bull: a
Page 21 and 22: CHAPTER 6 UNEXPECTED! 'BEAST!' Bill
Page 23 and 24: 'Not at all, sir! An honour and a p
Page 25 and 26: CHAPTER 7 AMAZING BILLY BUNTER lean
Page 27 and 28: was willing to be patronized, Billy
Page 29 and 30: CHAPTER 8 A SURPRISE FOR THE STUDY
Page 31 and 32: 'Hem!' 'You can look over the carav
Page 33 and 34: CHAPTER 9 THE VANISHED VAN 'WHERE'S
Page 35 and 36: after him, Bunter hoped that he wou
Page 37 and 38: that you do not wish to give me the
Page 39 and 40: 'Not far from the station at Woolle
Page 41 and 42: 'That caravan yarn again,' answered
Page 43 and 44: CHAPTER 12 BILLY BUNTER'S CARAVAN '
Page 45 and 46: 'Indeed, sir.' 'You see, he was a s
Page 47 and 48: CHAPTER 13 SEEING IS BELIEVING 'THA
Page 49 and 50: 'I was jolly particular about it, y
Page 51 and 52: 'Not Tennyson?' asked Nugent. 'No.
Page 53 and 54: had, in fact, had several meals one
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chum a playful barge in time. Johnn
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CHAPTER 15 DITCHED! 'LEAVE it to me
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'Don't cut it too fine, Bunter,' ca
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'Urrrrgh! Beasts! Grooogh! I'm all
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lane, the car slowed and stopped, t
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owler hat, he looked about as commo
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strolled away up the shady lane, an
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Then he turned and panted along the
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'All right now, sir,' said Harry. '
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CHAPTER 18 BUNTER KNOWS BEST 'I SAY
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'May be only gammon, as that fat ch
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Five in the tent was rather close p
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Billy Bunter slept peacefully on, i
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CHAPTER 20 SPOT OF LUCK 'HALLO, hal
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lankly. They had not expected to se
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The juniors looked round them in th
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he glimpsed a tall man in gaiters -
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locked in a shed till morning - can
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ushes grew too thickly for visibili
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and spectacles shot round continual
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apidly behind. If a tall man in gai
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'Rot!' grunted Johnny Bull. 'The ro
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'I say, you fellows—' 'Ha, ha, ha
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Having scanned the angular figure i
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'You can't pull my leg, Cherry,' he
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Bunter, in fact, was indignant. His
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'Taking a little walk,' said Bob Ch
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the way of regarding the caravan as
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y its orthography. However, he fold
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had tact: he did not pursue the sub
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unexpectedly. They were going to re
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Mr. Quelch. 'He may have engaged so
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CHAPTER 29 MOONLIGHT MARCH 'How swe
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'I tell you I jolly well know!' yap
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accustomed deference. 'Perhaps you
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they have expected to see him trave
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'Here's a chair, sir.' 'You'll join
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CHAPTER 31 THE WANTED MAN 'OH what
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'Yes, in the capacity of a man-serv
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CHAPTER 32 NOT SO GOOD FOR BUNTER '
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'Ha, ha, ha!' 'Oh, really, Bull—'
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