The Sea of Adventure

“Do you know, it’s May the fifth already!” said Jack, in a very gloomy voice. “All the fellows will be back at school today.”“What a pity, what a pity!” said Kiki the parrot, in just as gloomy a voice as Jack’s.“This awful measles!” said Lucy-Ann. “First Philip had it as soon as he came home for the hols, then Dinah, then she gave it to me, and then you had it!”“Well, we’re all out of quarantine now,” said Dinah, from her corner of the room. “It’s just silly of the doctor to say we ought to go away and have a change before we go back to school. Isn’t it enough change to go back to school? I do so love the summer term too.”“Yes—and I bet I’d have been in the first eleven,” said Philip, pushing back the tuft of hair he had in front. “Golly, I’ll be glad to get my hair cut again! I feel like a girl, now it’s grown so long!”