As the find outers and famous five wandered down to the river they saw what seemed to be Ern.

" Oh hello Ern" shouted fatty and at that moment the others glanced at the direction fatty was pointing and saw that Ern was stumbling towards

"hello fatty" said Ern "nice to see you look a bit balloony"

" Now Ern Mind your manners in front our guests " replied fatty in a rather stern voice " Glad you could join us "

" Well who are your guests" asked Ern as he finally noticed a few odd faces, after the introduction was acquainted they all proceeded to go towards the river and then out of the corner of his eye he saw something that made him stop

" George " fatty said " Would you mind asking that man over there if he could tell us the way to the cake shop" without him taking his eyes of the man

" Sure " said George as she walked towards the man wandering why he had been so vague about this instruction with Timmy on heel she asked the man whether he knew where the cake shop was and got quite an alarming response

" Why don't you find it yourself !"shouted the man. As George walked back and told them what happened fatty started laughing and everyone waited impatiently to find out the joke.

" Whats so funny? " Asked Julian as fatty stopped laughing

"that wwas MMr. Goon " said fatty and it dawned on the others that fatty had noticed and purposely sent George to ask him and then it suddenly felt a lot more funny and everyone roared with laughter everyone but Ern but no one noticed poor Ern here he was with everyone no wonder his uncle had been so keen to send him to the river shows.

" Well are you going to go in or are you going to keep the line waiting " shouted the man from behind them as the 10 children hurried along the split into pairs as fatty had said it would be better for them to mix and mingle that way and it looked less like a mob but planned to meet at the picnic site at lunch. So it was Fatty and George, Larry and Julian, Bets and Anne, Dick and Daisy and Ern and pip so they all went to have an exciting time at the river and even Ern was thoroughly enjoying himself. Larry and Julian decided that they would first like to see the wax works which reminded larry of the time they solved the mystery of the missing necklace and the story was told therefore occupying them throughout most of the trips and they were first to reach the picnic site meanwhile fatty and George had a more amusing time. As fatty saw

Mr. Goon he decided he looked a bit lonely so they walked up to Mr. Goon and exchanged a few words of encouragement.

" Well Good morning sir" said fatty pretending he didn't know it was Mr. Goon. Well Mr. Goon had been having a troublesome day first he had taken a wrong turn and saw he was quite late so hurried along getting a puncture and tearing his new t -shirt. Then when he finally reached the fair they said no psychos were allowed which made Mr. Goon furious and revealed his identity and quickly checked to see if anyone saw and to make things worse his house maid came to him saying that there has been another report of dogs chasing sheep and that he was supposed to be getting on with that and what really cut deep was that she instantly recognized him and now here was that fat boy coming to insult him even more. At that time Mr. Goon felt a sudden urge to box his ears.

" hello " Mumbled Mr. Goon under his breath

" Well sir would you directing me to the hoopla stall I happen to have a few hoops to return" Said fatty bringing out a couple of boiled sweets in his hand "Oh sorry sir it turns out that i already returned them" in the tone of voice that infuriated Mr. Goon even more

" Well sir I want to find out if I would be able to give my dog a wash he seems to be very dirty" said George joining in with the antics " Would you like to smell him "

" NO NOW CLEAR ORF ! " exclaimed Mr. Goon

"Oh Mr. Goon is it you look years younger " replied fatty in a calm tone and at that moment buster chose to nip at Mr. Goons ankles

"Call your dog off now clear orf ! " shouted Mr. Goon

"come here buster " said fatty without much sharpness in his voice " Well we better get going look at the time" said fatty as he looked at his watch unable to keep his face straight any more.