Chapter 19 ALL KINDS OF SHOCKS
　　THEY stood there for a little while, not certain what to do. It was all so very unexpected. Then Billshook himself and grinned round at the others.
　　"Well — it looks as if we've got to spend the night here, doesn't it — and get our supper ourselves.
　　Thank goodness we've got the food that extraordinary boy brought on his donkey! And Jack¹'s got therest of our picnic lunch as well.""Oh yes — I'd forgotten that!" said Dinah, pleased. She had been thinking they would have nothingto eat.
　　"We can go and tuck in straight away," said Bill. "We'll find somewhere to sleep all right — it's verywarm, and we shan't take any harm. I don't particularly want to go and find one of those farms wesaw, in case Andros takes it into his head to call back for us. He must have gone crazy."It was a curious evening that they all spent on Thamis. They went to find the store of food and had avery good meal indeed. They put the rest of it safely back in the cool place they had stored it in atfirst. Then they went wandering round the silent, ruined old city again. Lucy-Ann found an old potwith a broken neck, which she was very pleased with. Jack found some kind of metal fork — at leastthat is what he took it to be — with two of its prongs gone.
　　Bill had been hunting about for some place to sleep in. He hadn't been very successful. At last hechose a room not far from the ruined temple, one that had three walls and a little roof left. It wasovergrown with thick grass and would have to do for a bedroom.
　　The sun was going down. It would soon be gone. Bill decided² to put the food in the "bedroom" too,then it would be handy if they wanted any. He and the boys removed it from the place it was in andput it carefully in some thick, cool grass. They were glad there was such a lot!
　　When the sun disappeared everyone felt tired. Lucy-Ann was yawning her head off, and so was Kiki.
　　Micky explored the ruined little room thoroughly³, approved of it and settled down on Philip as soonas the boy had made himself a fairly soft bed in the thickly-growing grass.
　　The four children fell asleep at once. Kiki perched herself quietly on Jack's middle as soon as sheknew he was asleep. He had pushed her off two or three times, but this time he didn't wake, and sheremained where she was, her head tucked under her wing.
　　Bill lay and looked up at the stars he could see through the holes in the roof. He was angry withhimself for bringing the children to Thamis. Now they had landed in difficulties again — all becauseof a

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