“No, I’ll go,” said Jack. “You might be caught.”
"Well, so might you,” said Mike. “We’ll go together.”
“Can’t we come, too?” asked the girls.
"Certainly not,” said Jack, at once. “There’s no use the whole lot of us running into danger.”
“How shall we keep the milk cool?” wondered Peggy. “It’s jolly hot on this island.”
“I’ll make a little round place to fit the milk-pail into, just by one of the springs,” said Jack, at once. “Then, with the cool spring water running round the milk-pail all day, the milk will keep beautifully fresh and cool.”
“How clever you are, Jack!” said Nora.
“No, I’m not,” said Jack. “It’s just common sense, that’s all. Anyone can think of things like that.”
“I do feel tired and stiff to-day,” said Mike, stretching out his arms. “It was pretty hard work pulling old Daisy along last night!”
“We’d better have a restful day,” said Jack, who was also feeling tired. “For once in a way we won’t do anything. We’ll just lie about and read and talk.”