Famous Five's & Others' Drinking Water
Posted: 17 Sep 2017, 12:31
How did the Famous Five and Enid 's other main series characters approach drinking water whilst in the middle of an adventure?
Do they take Mum's advice to boil all their water?"Remember to boil every drop of water you drink," said the children's mother. "That's very important. Get as much milk from the farms as they will let you have. And remember that there is plenty of ginger-beer in the locker under the second caravan."
Can anyone remember how they found and drank water outdoors n their twenty one adventures - how much boiling did they do? Did they ever boil their water!'Let's go and see, I'm thirsty, and if there's a spring there, it will be very cold and clear — lovely to drink from. Come on, we'll go and see.'
But there was no spring. The stream did not 'begin' just there, but flowed out of a hole in the hillside, as big and as fast as it was just under the stone bridge. The children bent down and peered into the water-filled hole.
'It comes out from inside the hill,' said Anne, surprised. 'Fancy it running around in the hill itself. It must be glad to find a way out!'
They didn't like to drink it as it was not the clear, fresh spring they had hoped to find. But, wandering a little farther on, they came to a real spring that gushed out from beneath a stone, cold and crystal clear.
They drank from this and voted that it was the nicest drink they had ever had in their lives. Dick followed the spring-water downwards and saw that it joined the little rushing stream.
'I suppose it flows into the lake,' he said. 'Come on. Let's get on and find a farm, Julian. I'm sure I heard the crowing of a cock just then, so one can't be far away.'