To be fair when he does so he usually realises it and gruffly does something to make up for it. He goes too far with his teasing of Bets. Pip can indeed be fairly dislikable at times. What does everyone else think of these three? Thanks to Mary Gernat's illustrations, I've got a strong image in my mind of what she looked like, but I always felt she was there merely to respond to the others rather than actually make a mark on proceedings herself. I'm afraid I found Daisy as something of a supporting character. Whereas Pip would nastily rib Bets through jealousy, Larry would wittily rib Fatty because the "fat, conceited creature" deserved it! The original head of the Find-Outers simply because of his age, he reluctantly handed over leadership to Fatty but was still capable of reducing him to an emotional state when taking him down a peg or two for his boasting. He really didn't like it when Bets hit the nail on the head, did he? When I was a child, I sympathized with Pip a lot because I knew what it was like to be jealous of a younger sister! Fortunately, I've grown out of that but as an adult, I look on Pip as being rather nasty and spiteful at times. But what did you think of Philip, Lawrence and Margaret? Fatty was undoubtedly the star of the show with sweet, innocent Bets often coming up with the solution without even realizing it. I would say that out of all of Enid's groups of regular crime-fighting children (Famous Five, the Adventure series, the Secret Seven), it is The Five Find-Outers and Dog that is most focussed on one or two at the expense of the others.
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