Chapter 6

Chapter SIX After lunch we all followed Miss Cherry to the archery room, including Oscar. Jasper raced towards the dressing-up box and pulled out the bowman's outfit. 'I'm just like Robin Hood now!' he cried, putting it on over his clothes. Then it was time for an archery lesson. A lady came in and showed us how

to use a bow and arrow. We had to shoot it across the room and try and hit the target on the other side. 'It's really hard, said Sashi as her arrow went flying up towards the high ceiling.

'Really hard!' agreed Jasper. 'Even with my bowman's outfit on!' Oscar was the last to have a turn. 'Wow!' said everyone as Oscar's arrow hit the bullseye. 'Amazing!' 'Well done!' said the lady, sounding really impressed. 'See if you can do it again!' She handed Oscar another arrow and Oscar shot it right in the bullseye for the second time. 'Double wow!' said the lady. 'You are really talented.' 'Woahhhh!' said the class, and Jasper's eyes almost popped out of his head. 'You are awesome, Oscar!' he said.

Oscar shuffled his feet with embarrassment but I could tell he was really pleased. 'I can teach you how to do it sometime, if you like,' he offered. Jasper nodded his head eagerly. 'Yes please!' he said. After the archery we made our way upstairs and looked around some of the other rooms including the one full of swords and shields, and the tall turret with one hundred steps leading up to it. Samantha found the princess outfit in the royal bedroom.

'It's time for the last room!' said Miss Cherry once we were back on the ground floor again. 'It's the chapel. I expect there's one more costume left in there too. Who isn't dressed up yet?' 'Me!' said Dominic. 'I want to be a knight or a bowman!' 'Oh dear,' said Miss Cherry. 'I'm afraid it's more likely that you'll be a monk.' The chapel was a very beautiful room with high arched ceilings and lots of

carvings covered in a thin layer of silver called silver leaf. Joined on to the chapel was another fancy room with a huge complicated-looking instrument in it. 'Oh my!' said Dad. 'An organ! I would so love to be able to play the organ! Very gothic and vampire-y, don't you think?' He sat down on the seat and started to press the notes. A tuneless song came out and everyone put their fingers in their ears. 'Dad,' I hissed. I don't think you're supposed to touch that!' 'It's quite all right, said an official- looking man who was standing nearby. 'We encourage people to have a go on the instruments. In fact, he said, gesturing