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4.Craggy-Tops
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Craggy-Tops
The train sped on through the countryside, passing many stations, andstopping at very few. On towards the coast it went, through high mountainsthat towered up, over silver rivers, through big, straggling towns.
And then it came to wilder country. The sea-wind came in at the window.
‘I can smell the sea already,’ said Jack1, who had only once before been tothe sea, and scarcely remembered it.
The train stopped at last at a lonely little station. ‘Here we are,’ saidPhilip. ‘Tumble out. Hi, Joe! Here I am. Have you got the old car handy?’
Jack and Lucy-Ann saw a strange man coming towards them. His skinwas lined, his teeth were very white, and his eyes darted2 from side to side ashe looked at them. Running behind him was a girl a little older than Lucy?Ann, but tall for her age. She had the same brown, wavy3 hair that Philiphad, and the same tuft in front.
‘Another Tufty,’ thought Jack, ‘but a fiercer one. It must be Dinah.’
It was Dinah. She had come with Joe to meet Philip, in the ramshackleold car. She stopped short in the greatest surprise when she saw Lucy-Annand Jack. Jack grinned, but Lucy-Ann, suddenly feeling shy of thisstrapping, confident-looking girl, hid behind her brother. Dinah stared ineven greater amazement4 at Kiki, who was telling Joe to wipe his feet atonce.
‘You mind your manners,’ said Joe roughly, talking to the bird as if it wasa human being. Kiki put up her crest5 and growled6 angrily, like a dog. Joelooked startled.
‘That a bird?’ he enquired7 of Philip.
‘Yes,’ said Philip. ‘Joe, that trunk should go in the car too. It belongs tomy two friends.’
‘They coming to Craggy-Tops?’ said Joe in the greatest surprise. ‘MissPolly, she didn’t say nothing about any friends, no, she didn’t.’
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