we can catch any more fish before we go a

k, "there's enou

Rand, "but it is a

gly. "There is a good place I can see. That stri

that would make a dandy pla

here and camp," said Ja

ay!" cri

ay it," sa

patrol and come up

hat time, Pepper," crie

e a bad idea,

r shuah," drawled Rand in the neg

nel Snow to start

cried th

him just as soo

the thing r

r their plans, the boys pull

there," broke in Don. "I didn't kno

here?" as

t is covered with bark so

a big tree," said Jac

s always lived in cav

one that doesn'

see him," su

Pepper. "If he's a hermit he doesn't wa

Jack. "What have you

ich things,' at least a

hing into things you don't know anything abou

ure of his dinner, what

the same way, too, fro

here?" as

mountain," replied Rand. "

cloud," said Jack. "I

making a fire to cook w

You can always depend upon old Solomon

" continued Jack. "I

to you," argued Donald. "You

up to you and hit you over the head. I've got more than half a

es up there, if it is one, and my curiosity

the trouble I want without going to the

. "Now, who said any

e shore and, jumping out of the

had landed, "who wants to be c

volunteered

ldn't do worse and Don is almost as bad.

nt to starve,"

will bring the water and wash the dishes I'll

all right," ag

en," ordered R

the stove from the boat, set it up and had it burning, and the p

the frying fish, under Rand's skillful manipulation, be

at am a fac', foh

oke in Pepper. "I ca

Rand. "Dem fishes am pr

acted attention, and the boys all w

a nearby clump of bushes, snatched the pan from the stove, overturni

t Pepper, who was the first to catch si

ey Rae, and he h

asked Rand i

r; "he's stolen our fish!

!" exclaimed Rand, "

-t-the fish," amended P

start, and perhaps, some knowledge of the locality, and after a vain hun

The oil has all run out and we can't cook any more," he went on, with so gloomy an expres