The Junior Readers Series is designed to encourage reading for pleasure and to meet the supplementary reading needs of upper primary school children. Wide and repeated reading of books in the series should enable pupils to automatically improve their written as well as spoken English. "...he suddenly sprang from his seat as if it had burnt him and made a dash for the door. He had reached it before I noticed that he had left a small oilskin pouch. If I had had a chance to hand it over to the bus conductor, this story would never have been written. As it was, without stopping to think, I grabbed the pouch and sprinted after the old man." This is how Isaac, a home-loving boy, first met Rufusi, the wily old gemstones miner. Find out what happened.