Ben's Expedition / Billy's Monster

Ben's ExpeditionAll the Taylors had measles, except Ben. With his brother and sister in bed with measles and his mother far too busy minding them to bother much about him, it was not long before Ben had his great idea: he would go on an Expedition down the river.The first thing was to build a raft, which turned out to be more complicated than Ben had expected, but even when he had managed to get afloat the Expedition still went rather wrong and Ben found himself having to apologise to Colonel Hardy for some damage he really hadn’t meant to do. But in the end this turned out to be a stroke of luck, for the Colonel knew all about Expeditions, and soon Ben, the Colonel, and the Colonel’s large and useful Great Dane were well on their way to making an exciting discovery.