儿童英语读物 The Summer Camp Mystery CHAPTER 8 The Switch
时间:2018-12-06 作者:英语课 分类:82 The Summer Camp Mystery
After the Flag Ceremony, Henry and Jessie fetched their trunks. They quickly dropped them off at their cabins. In no time, they caught up to everyone heading to Evergreen 1 Lodge 2 for breakfast. It was Blueberry Pancake Day. Nobody wanted to miss that!
Jessie’s and Henry’s tables were next to each other. Luckily for Violet, Kim’s table was nearby as well. The Aldens liked meeting new campers. But they also liked seeing one another at camp.
Jessie turned around to see how Benny was doing. “Are you going to eat that whole stack of blueberry pancakes?” she asked.
Benny wiped some sticky maple 3 syrup 4 from the corners of his mouth. “Grandfather said I should only have a tiny piece of toast in case my stomach did flip-flops on the ferry. I saved being hungry for breakfast at camp.”
“I guess you did, by the look of your plate,” Henry said. “Now the Dolphins don’t have to worry about losing points for the No Food on the Floor Award.”
A loud drumming sound boomed over the noisy dining hall. Ginny was onstage banging a metal serving spoon against a metal soup pot from the camp kitchen.
“I think Ginny and Rich are about to announce who won the Big Idea,” Jessie said. “I hope the Dolphins have a good chance.”
Daisy squeezed Jessie’s hand. “I can’t wait. Maybe our cabin will win. Do you want to know what our idea is?” Daisy asked a boy Dolphin at Henry’s table.
“Shhhh, no telling,” Jessie told Daisy just in time.
After everyone finally quieted down, Ginny tapped the microphone. “I know you’re all eager to find out who the Big Idea winner is. We won’t keep you waiting any longer. As your counselors 6 told you, for our new Olympics we asked all the cabins to think up ways to make Camp Seagull the best ever. The Big Idea Medal is for the best of the bunch — the idea that pulls the whole camp together.”
Ginny stepped away from the microphone so Rich could speak. “We were up half the night trying to decide on the winner. There were so many great entries, we’d have to run Camp Seagull all year ’round to try them all out. Now, after I announce the idea we chose, I’d like the winning counselor 5 to come up. Drumroll, please.”
Ginny banged on the soup pot again. The campers banged on their tables with their silverware. Evergreen Lodge was jumping!
“And the winner is . . . Me and My Buddy 7!” Rich yelled into the microphone.
“We won! We won!” the Dolphins at Jessie’s table yelled.
“We won! We won!” the Seals at Kim’s table yelled.
Ginny banged the soup pot again to get everyone’s attention. “For the first time this summer, we have two identical outstanding ideas,” Ginny announced when everyone quieted down. “Because Me and My Buddy is so special, I’d like to recognize Jessie’s Dolphins. Come up here and take a bow, Jessie.”
Jessie stepped onstage, confused. The audience was confused, too. Only a few campers clapped.
“Now let’s hear it for the Seals, who submitted their idea first,” Ginny cried. “Come on up for your group, Kim.”
“What? No fair,” one Dolphin after another muttered.
Jessie tried to say something to make her campers feel better, but her lips wouldn’t move.
Ginny tapped the microphone with her pencil. “Now, now. Let’s all be good sports. It’s only fair to give the medal to the group that came up with the idea first.”
Rich took the microphone. “I hereby award one hundred points to the Seals, along with a special banner to the girls of Birch Cabin.” Rich shook Kim’s hand, then gave her the Cabin of the Week banner. “The Seals move to the front in the Olympics. Let’s hear it for the Seals and for Birch!”
The Birch Cabin Seals ran to the stage. They helped Kim hold up the banner.
“Go, Seals!” the Seals roared.
When the cheering died down, Rich explained the winning idea and then made the morning announcements. “Now it’s time to clean your tables and bring your plates to the kitchen. Then you’ll return to your cabins for morning cabin inspection 8. After that, everyone goes to activities. Meanwhile, we hope you will find Buddies 9 and Buddies will find you to help each other the rest of the week.”
The Dolphins were quiet as they cleared their tables.
Jessie wiped up every drip and speck 10. She didn’t want the Dolphins to fall further behind. “I’m so sorry I somehow let you down,” Jessie said to the girls as they were cleaning up. “I never thought someone else would come up with our same idea and that I should have gotten it to Ginny before the Seals did.”
Jessie’s Dolphins were too disappointed to say anything.
“Dolphins,” Henry said to make everyone feel better, “the Seals are ahead now, but this is only the beginning of camp.”
“I’ll be your Buddy, Jessie,” Daisy said as the group walked back to the cabins for inspection.
This made Jessie smile. “If there’s a Big Heart Award, you’ll win it, Daisy.” She turned to the other Dolphins. “Here are your schedules for today’s activities. Start walking to the first activity. Henry and I will meet you there in a few minutes.”
“Can I stay with you?” Benny asked his brother and sister. “Henry gave me my schedule already. Look, here comes Violet.”
The four Aldens stood on the porch without speaking. They looked at the campers below, who were excited to start the day. Were they ever going to feel that way about Camp Seagull?
“We just arrived at camp,” Jessie began, “and too many things keep happening that don’t make sense. First our trunks are left behind. Next you can’t find the flags, Henry. Then Kim’s group somehow comes up with the same idea as the Dolphins.”
“And Lizzie doesn’t obey and keeps on disappearing,” Henry said. “Don’t forget that.”
“Right,” Jessie went on. “I have a feeling she and Kim tried to scare the Dolphins with the monster footprints so we’d lose points for screaming. But the big thing is what just happened. I have a feeling Kim somehow got Me and My Buddy from our group. But how?”
Henry looked at Violet. “I know you can’t really talk about how your cabin decided 11 on its Big Idea. But did anything happen that seemed suspicious?”
Jessie stopped her sister before she could answer. “Violet, you really shouldn’t say anything about this.”
Violet wanted to help, but she stopped herself. She knew Jessie was right.
Henry shook his head and said, “There’s got to be a way to find out if Kim copied you.”
Jessie turned to Violet. “It’s time to send you on your way,” she said. “It wouldn’t be fair for you to hear our plans for solving this mystery.”
Violet walked slowly back to her cabin.
Benny looked over at Henry. Henry’s eyebrows 12 were scrunched 13 together. Benny knew what that meant. Henry was cooking up a plan.
Henry began, “On Costume Night, we’ll let the Dolphins think we’re going to dress up one way, but we’ll really have secret costumes!”
“You mean, we’ll tell everybody we’re going to be ghosts, but then we’ll be pirates?” Benny asked.
“Exactly!” Henry said. “The only problem is figuring out how to let Ginny and Rich know what our real costumes are ahead of time.”
“We could give them a letter in an envelope beforehand,” Jessie suggested, “and tell them not to open it until after the costume contest. If somebody shows up with the same costumes, then they’ll know who the copycats are.”
“Not the Aldens,” Benny said. “We’re not copycats.”
“Let’s do it,” Henry said.
- Some trees are evergreen;they are called evergreen.有的树是常青的,被叫做常青树。
- There is a small evergreen shrub on the hillside.山腰上有一小块常绿灌木丛。
- Is there anywhere that I can lodge in the village tonight?村里有我今晚过夜的地方吗?
- I shall lodge at the inn for two nights.我要在这家小店住两个晚上。
- Maple sugar is made from the sap of maple trees.枫糖是由枫树的树液制成的。
- The maple leaves are tinge with autumn red.枫叶染上了秋天的红色。
- I skimmed the foam from the boiling syrup.我撇去了煮沸糖浆上的泡沫。
- Tinned fruit usually has a lot of syrup with it.罐头水果通常都有许多糖浆。
- The counselor gave us some disinterested advice.顾问给了我们一些无私的忠告。
- Chinese commercial counselor's office in foreign countries.中国驻国外商务参赞处。
- Counselors began an inquiry into industrial needs. 顾问们开始调查工业方面的需要。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- We have experienced counselors available day and night. ) 这里有经验的法律顾问全天候值班。) 来自超越目标英语 第4册
- Calm down,buddy.What's the trouble?压压气,老兄。有什么麻烦吗?
- Get out of my way,buddy!别挡道了,你这家伙!
- On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查,发现肉变质了。
- The soldiers lined up for their daily inspection by their officers.士兵们列队接受军官的日常检阅。
- We became great buddies. 我们成了非常好的朋友。 来自辞典例句
- The two of them have become great buddies. 他们俩成了要好的朋友。 来自辞典例句
- I have not a speck of interest in it.我对它没有任何兴趣。
- The sky is clear and bright without a speck of cloud.天空晴朗,一星星云彩也没有。
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。