Look and Read/Bob and Carol Look for Treasure/Story Guide
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Here is a detailed, episode by episode description of what happened in the story bits of the Look and Read story Bob and Carol Look for Treasure, based on the pupil's pamphlet.
[edit] 1. The Lost Treasure Part One
Carol goes to deliver some eggs to Miss Brown, who looks after a big, old house. While she is waiting for Miss Brown to finish showing some visitors around, Carol admires a small china Chinaman with a green coat. Miss Brown is about to reveal that the green Chinaman has a secret, but is distracted by the sight of Bella, Carol's goat, eating her flowers. Carol goes to chase after her errant caprine and is joined by a boy she meets sitting in a tree.
[edit] 2. The Lost Treasure Part Two
The boy reveals that his name is Bob and he lives on a boat on the canal. The two children eventually find Bella down by the canal, munching through Bob's chocolate and his coat. Bob invites Carol onto his boat and starts showing her around. Carol spots a small Chinaman exactly like the statuette in the big house except that this one has a blue coat. The children make out some strange writing under the base of the figurine, which seems to consist of incomplete fragments of words and sentences. Bob calls this a clue and reports that his Dad says if they can find out what the writing means, they will find a lost treasure.
[edit] 3. The Lost Treasure Part Three
Bob and Carol take the blue Chinaman and go to see Miss Brown. She tells them a story about a man called Adam Kent who lived in the house a long time ago. Adam Kent had two children, the kindly Robert and the unkindly Will, and promised to split his vast fortune in half between them. Will crossly demanded it all for himself prompting Robert to leave home and go far away. Adam didn't want Will to end up with all of his treasure so he hid it all where noone would ever find it. Adam gave Will the green Chinaman and sent the blue one to Robert, the two together providing the clues necessary to finding the treasure. However Robert never came home so the treasure has never been found. When the children and Miss Brown examine the green statuette they find the clue written under its feet, so now they have the two clues to the lost treasure.
[edit] 4. The Lost Treasure Part Four
Starting from the prompt that A.K. must be Adam Kent, the person who hid the treasure and wrote the clues, the children put the two clues together side by side to read the instructions for finding the treasure. Mrs Brown gives them a map of the area to help them to find the treasure, then goes off. The first clue requires a stone with 'AK' on it, so they split up to search round the gardens. Carol finds a stone with "Time Will Not Stand Still" [remember that; it may become important later] on it, but Bob discovers what they're looking for - 'AK' on the wall of the house above the front door. They next have to turn their backs to the stone and cross the canal. The next line - G O N W from K - they can't understand so they move on to the next and go to search for 'Ing's Mill'. The spot a mill on the map they were given: Bob thinks it's the one from the clue, Carol isn't sure. When they go to the mill a man lets them look round inside. Carol notices that the date on the wall is 1959, so it is a new mill and not old enough for Adam Kent to have known about it. So they sit down to reconsider the latest clues.
[edit] 5. The Lost Treasure Part Five
Bob and Carol read and re-read the clues but cannot understand them. Then Carol looks up at the signpost that they are sitting against and notices that it points to King's Mill. So King's Mill is a village and not a mill at all and they set off to find it. They're supposed to be looking for a wishing well in the village, but decide to buy some chocolate first. Bella the goat has made her way down to King's Mill as well, but the children don't notice her behind them until she has eaten half of their map. Carol goes to take Bella back home, leaving Bob on his own to consider the clues. He changes 'G O N W' to 'go NW' and using the compass that he happens to have in his pocket, goes off to the North-West. Meanwhile Carol leaves Bella at home and heads back to King's Mill, where Bob isn't. He soon comes running up to tell Carol that he's found the Wishing Well, and they both do dashing off. It's a long way to the wishing well and involves lots of climbing and jumping. When they get there the final clue is 'E 5 S 6', so Bob gets his compass out again and they take five steps East and six South. They arrive at a large stone with 'AK' on it, which they remove, and discover a box behind it. Inside is a bit of paper saying "Time Will Not Stand Still" [you see] - what could that mean?
[edit] 6. The Lost Treasure Part Six
Carol remembers the stone that she saw in the garden of the big house with 'Time Will Not Stand Still' written on it, so the kids go back to have a look. Carol can't remember exactly where she saw the stone so they have to search again. Whilst searching they find Bella making mischief again, eating a hat. A fat man comes running up to retrieve his hat and they all run after Bella, but the Fat Man falls over. Bob and Carol help the Fat Man to get up and give him back his hat, but he's very cross and just says "Goats! Children! Creeping cat!" instead of "Thank you." Bob spots a little black box that fell out of the Fat Man's pocket and they realise it's a radio. They take it back to the Fat Man - who again doesn't say "Thank you" - and notice his motorbike with the registration number BCW 3456 [remember that; it may become important later]. Then they finally find the right stone and go to tell Miss Brown. Miss Brown thinks all the house's visitors have left and goes off with the children, but the Fat Man is still lurking behind a door. Miss Brown asks Bert the gardener to dig under the stone. Bert digs for a long time, with some help from Bob and Carol, and eventually they discover a big brown bag. Inside is a lot of gold and silver plus two big golden cups. Miss Brown and Carol take the treasure inside the house while Bob goes to look after Bella. As soon as they get in, Miss Brown discovers that the picture of Adam Kent has been stolen. Miss Brown goes to ring the police while Carol runs off to tell Bob. When Bob and Carol get back to the house, they find that the treasure has been stolen too!
[edit] 7. The Stolen Treasure Part One
The next day the newspapers report that the picture and treasure had been stolen and that the police are looking for them, Bob and Carol wish they could help but can't think what to do. Bob's dad has to take his boat - which is called Bluebell - up the canal, and Carol is allowed to accompany them. They come to a lock and Bob starts explaining how locks work. Bob and his dad know the man who lives in the house next to the lock, Mike, and he helps them work the gates. When they get out of the locks they stop the boat at the canal bank and all have dinner. Bob and Carol go for a walk and discover a motorbike on the river bank with the registration number BCM 3456 [you see], which Bob declares to be the fat man's. The children think the fat man may have stolen their treasure and so hide in a nearby shed to wait for him to turn up. Carol is distracted by a huge radio mechanism inside the shed, but Bob is watching out and sees someone coming back to the motorbike. It's not the fat man, but Mike. Someone comes out of the shadows from behind Bob and Carol and tells them they're not allowed in the shed. The boy, who is called Dan, calls for Mike and the two ask Bob and Carol what is going on. Bob and Carol tell them everything, even about the fat man and the motorbike, but Dan insists that the motorbike they've just found belongs to Mike, and Bob realises he must have made a mistake over the registration numbers. Carol asks about the big radio, and Mike lets Dan demonstrate it to Bob and Carol while he goes off. Dan is just explaining how they can send and receive messages when a voice comes over the radio: "Calling Number One, calling Number One," and the three children start to transcribe the message. The voice on the radio uses the curse "Creeping cat!" and tells 'Number One' that he has got the "pic----" from the house. He is told that Number One will "send the Red Dragon" and then the message stops. Bob, Carol and Dan are left to wonder what all of that could mean.
[edit] 8. The Stolen Treasure Part Two
The children realise that it was the Fat Man talking on the radio and that he has the stolen picture and probably the treasure too. Dan offers to help Bob and Carol get the treasure back, and the first thing they decide to do is look for the Red Dragon. They think it must be a boat and so go to look along the canal, but there are an awful lot of boats all along it. They find two bikes in the shed and Dan and Bob take them to ride along the canal, leaving Carol behind in case another message comes on the radio - which Carol is not happy about. Instead of waiting about, Carol decides to walk along the canal herself to look for boats. She goes inside a boat house to see if there's anything inside and hears the Fat Man talking. She quickly hides and spies on the fat man as he talks into his little portable radio. The Fat Man is getting told off by Number One for having stolen the treasure instead of just the picture, and is also given an appointment in Bell Park at four o'clock to put the picture in the Red Dragon. The Fat Man eventually turns his radio off and leaves the boat house - locking it behind him. Carol can't get out of the boat house, and it's 2:30. Meanwhile Dan and Bob ride a long way along the canal but are unable to find the Red Dragon. At 3 o'clock Carol gets desperate and puts a message in a bottle asking for help and sends it out on the canal. Bob and Dan get back to the shed and can't find Carol anywhere, but then Bob gets the bottle out of the canal and reads the message from Carol. The boys spot the boat house, run to it, unlock it and let Carol out. By now it is 3:30 and Carol quickly explains what's happening with the Fat Man. The children all dash off to tell Mike their story because he probably knows where Bell Park is. He knows that it's next to the canal, so Bob and Dan set off for the park on their bikes, with Mike and Carol following on the motorbike.
[edit] 9. The Stolen Treasure Part Three
Unknown to the children and Mike, the Fat Man is on his radio again, reporting that he is in position in Bell Park. When the children arrive at the park they decide to split up to look for the Fat Man, so Bob and Dan go one way and Carol and Mike go the other. The boys see a man with black glasses by the water with a red and green toy motorboat. Dan wants to go on looking for the Fat Man, but Bob asks the man with black glasses to show him how the boat works. They see the name on the side of the toy boat: The Red Dragon. The boat sails away across the water. Meanwhile Carol and Mike have spotted the Fat Man's motorbike and soon come across the fat man himself. The fat man takes the toy motorboat out of the water, puts something inside it and puts it back in the canal, where it sails off. The Fat Man spots Mike and Carol, and runs off taking a big blue bag with him. Mike and Carol chase after him, and are soon joined by Bob and Dan who have spotted them from the park.
[edit] 10. The Stolen Treasure Part Four
Mike and the children chase after the Fat Man, who climbs and jumps and hides and eventually manages to get away. Just as everybody is wondering what to do next, they spot the Red Dragon coming along the canal and start to chase after that. But in the end it goes across to the other side of the canal where they can't get it, and Number One takes it. Number One gets into a big motorboat and goes racing off up the canal. Mike realises that they can stop the boat at Five Locks, and he goes off to alert the police. When Number One arrives at the locks, the Fat Man comes running up, still scared that the children are after him, and begs Number One to help him get away. Number One isn't interested in the treasure and tells the Fat Man to clear off in case the police find the picture. But when the Fat Man explains that it's not the police he's running from but some children, Number One decides to help him, provided he helps out with the lock gates. As the Fat Man goes to let the water into the lock, he spots the children, Mike and a policeman running up the canal bank towards him. The Fat Man tries to run away and gets into a hole in the wall next to the canal, but gets stuck there and can't get out. Number One's boat is still down in the lock and can't go anywhere. The policeman arrests both the Fat Man and Number One, and gets the picture out of the Red Dragon and the treasure out of the big blue bag.
Bob and Carol, Mike and Dan had found the picture and the stolen treasure.
