Table Of ContentTHE ADVENTURES OF MR. PINK
WHISTLE
OTHER BOOKS BY ENID BLYTON
SHADOW, THE SHEEP-DOG
THE ADVENTUROUS FOUR
THE TREASURE HUNTERS
THE ADVENTURES OF THE WISHING CHAIR
THE ENCHANTED WOOD
THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE
THE FOLK OF THE FARAWAY TREE
MR. GALLIANO'S CIRCUS
HURRAH FOR THE CIRCUS!
CIRCUS DAYS AGAIN
THE NAUGHTIEST GIRL IN THE SCHOOL
THE NAUGHTIEST GIRL AGAIN
THE NAUGHTIEST GIRL IS A MONITOR
THE BOY NEXT DOOR
NAUGHTY AMELIA JANE
AMELIA JANE AGAIN!
MISTER MEDDLE'S MISCHIEF
HELLO, MR. TWIDDLE!
BIMBO AND TOPSY
THE THREE GOLLIWOGS '
TALES OF TOYLAND
JOSIE, CLICK AND BUN AND THE LITTLE TREE-HOUSE
THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF JOSIE CLICK AND BUN
JOSIE, CLICK AND BUN AGAIN
MORE ABOUT JOSIE, CLICK AND BUN
DAME SLAP AND HER SCHOOL
THE
ADVENTURES OF
MR. PINK -WHISTLE
by
ENID BLYTON
ILLUSTRATED BY
DOROTHY M. WHEELER
LONDON
GEORGE NEWNES LIMITED
TOWER HOUSE
SOUTHAMPTON STREET, STRAND, W.C.2
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CONTENTS
I. THE LITTLE SECRET MAN
II. MR. PINK-WHISTLE PUTS THINGS RIGHT
III. THE GIRL WITH THE BROKEN DOLL
IV. A MARVELLOUS AFTERNOON
V. THE DOG WHO LOST HIS COLLARS
VI. A SURPRISE FOR DAME GENTLE
VII. THE TWO UGLY CREATURES
VIII. THE FORGOTTEN RABBITS
IX. JIMMY'S DAY IN THE COUNTRY
X. THE MEAN LITTLE BOY
XI. WILFRID HAS A GOOD MANY SHOCKS
CHAPTER I
THE LITTLE SECRET MAN
"It isn't fair!"Shouted Mr. Pink-Whistle, "it isn't fair!"
He stamped round the room in a rage, and his big black cat looked at him
in alarm, and put her tail under her, out of his way.
"Here I've just been reading about a poor man who saved up and bought a
nice new teapot for his wife—and on his way home a boy on roller-skates
banged into him and broke his precious teapot!"
Mr. Pink-Whistle put his hands under the back of his coat, pursed up his
lips, and looked at his Cat."Now is that fair, Sooty?"He shouted."Is that fair? Did
anybody buy him another teapot? No! And look here—here's a picture of a little
girl who ran to pick up something for a friend, and was knocked over by a
motorcar! Now, I ask you, Sooty—is that fair?"
"No-ee-oh-ee-ow," answered Sooty in surprise.
"Well, I don't think it's fair either!" said Mr. Pink-Whistle."I do think that
if people are kind, they should be rewarded not punished—and what's more,
Sooty, I'm going to do something about it."
"Oh-ee-ow!" said Sooty, waving her tail a little.
"Sooty, you know that I'm rather a lonely little man, don't you?" said Mr.
Pink-Whistle with a sigh; and he stroked his big black cat, who began to purr at
once.
"You see, Sooty, I'm not like ordinary people," went on the little man,
sinking down into a chair."I haven't any real friends except you. The reason is
that I'm half a brownie and half a proper person— so the brownies don't like me
much, and ordinary people are afraid of me because I've got brownie ears and
green eyes like you.""R-r-r-r-r-r-r-r," purred Sooty softly. She knew how kind
her master was, even if he was only a half-and-half.
"But, Sooty, I've got a secret!"whispered Mr. Pink-Whistle into his black
cat's pointed car."Yes, I've got a secret that I've never used yet. I can make
myself invisible whenever I like!"
Sooty didn't know what Mr. Pink-Whistle meant. She stared at him out of
eyes as green as her master's.
"I'll show you what I mean, Sooty!" said Mr. Pink-Whistle. He shut his
eyes and murmured a few strange words that made Sooty tremble and shiver.
And then Mr. Pink-Whistle disappeared! One moment he was there—and
the next he was gone. Sooty blinked her eyes and looked all round it., little warm
kitchen. Her green eyes nearly fell out of her head in surprise. Where, oh, where
had Mr. Pink-Whistle gone?
Sooty heard a faint giggle—and there was Mr. Pink-Whistle back again!
Sooty put her ears back and looked alarmed.
“Mee-ow-ee-ow!" she said. She hoped “her master wasn't going to do this
sort of thing very often.
"Now, that's my secret," said Mr. Pink-Whistle, pleased."And what I'm
going to do, Sooty-cat, is to go into the big town and look out for unlucky
people. I shall go into their houses, and I shall disappear into thin air, so that
they don't know I'm there. And I shall see that they get a reward for being kind!
What do you think of that for a good idea, Sooty?"
"Wow-ee-ow," answered Sooty.
"You'll stay here and keep house for me," said Mr. Pink-Whistle, and I'll
come back and see you often. Now I'll pack my bag and go. I won't let unfair
things happen to people. I won't! I won't! I may be only a half-and-half, but I'll
just show the world what I can do!"
He packed his bag, rubbed his face
against Sooty's soft head, ran out of the front door, and waved good-bye.
Sooty watched her kind, funny little master go, and wondered what he
would do.
"He won't be happy away from his cosy little home," said Sooty."I know
he won't. I wonder whose house he will go to?"
Now, in the nearest town lived a hardworking little woman called Mrs.
Spink. She had four small children, and it was very hard to feed and dress them
properly. They didn't have many treats, but they were good little things and
didn't grumble.
One day they all came rushing home from school in excitement. There was
Teddy, with blue eyes and golden hair; there was Eliza, with red curls; there was
Harry, with golden curls; and there was Bonny, with a mop of dark hair like a
sweep's brush. They tore into the kitchen
and made Mrs. Spink jump so much that she almost upset the pan.
"Mother! Mother! There's a party at school on Thursday and we're all to
go!" cried Teddy.
"But you haven't any nice clothes," said Mrs. Spink."Not any at all! You've
only got the ones you have on."
"Can't you wash them, Mother, and make them nice and clean?" asked
Eliza, almost in tears at the thought of not going to the party. Why, they had
never been to one before!
"Well, on Wednesday afternoon you must all go to bed, so that I can wash
your clothes ready for the party the next day," said their mother."That is the best
I can do for you."
Teddy, Eliza, Harry, and Bonny were quite willing to spend an afternoon
in bed if only their mother would get their clothes ready for the party. Then she
could wash them, iron them, and mend them.
So on Wednesday afternoon all the four children undressed, got into their
ragged 1 little night-clothes, and cuddled into bed, with books to read. Mrs.
Spink took the dirty clothes into the garden, set up her wash-tub, and began to
wash all the clothes —socks, stockings, vests, knickers, shorts, shirts, petticoats,
dresses, jerseys—goodness, what a lot of things there were!
Mrs. Spink sang as she worked. She saw a funny little man with big ears
and curious green eyes looking at her over the fence as she rubbed and scrubbed.
"Good-day!"he said;"you sound happy!"
"Well, my four children are going to their first party to-morrow," said Mrs.
Spink, squeezing the dirty water from a frock," and that's enough to make any
mother happy! Poor little things, they don't
