"You mean yesterday—this morning?"
"N—"
"Sh!"
Kaviak blinked.
"Wait and think. Yesterday this was full. You remember Mac opened it for you?"
Kaviak nodded.
"And now, you see"—he turned the can bottom side up—"all gone!"
"Oh-h!" murmured Kaviak with an accent of polite regret. Then, with recovered cheerfulness, he pointed to the store corner: "Maw!"
Potts laughed in his irritating way, and Mac's face got red. Things began to look black for Kaviak.
"Say, fellas, see here!" The Boy hammered the lid on the can with his fist, and then held it out. "It was put away shut up, for I shut it, and even one of us can't get that lid off without a knife or something to pry it."