"Ain't going to be no core!" quoted Nellie, laughing, as she offered that succulent morsel to a truck horse standing by the curb.
"Hah!" exclaimed Bobby, "you're just as generous as Tommy Long."
"What has he done now?" demanded Nellie. "He certainly is a little scamp. Just as full of mischief as poor Billy."
"Why, Tommy wasn't as generous with some fruit or other that he had, and Alice took him to task for it. She gave him a lecture on generosity. 'I'm goin' to be awful gen'rous with you, Kit,' he told his little sister, Katie, afterward. 'I is always goin' to give you the inside of the peaches and the outside of the owanges!' And that's about your idea of generosity, Nellie," laughed Bobby.
Mrs. Case arrived just then and they took the steamer across to the amusement park. But they did not linger. There was a good path through the "woodsy" part of the island, and the party set out on this way almost immediately. There were some open fields on Cavern Island as well as woods, and the superintendent of the park cultivated a little farm.
As the party skirted the ploughed fields some crows, doing all the damage they could among the tender corn sprouts, rose and swept lazily across the vista to the woods, with raucous cawings.
"Oh, Mrs. Case!" cried Bobby.
"What now, Clara?" was the teacher's response.
"You know something about birds, don't you?"
"A little," replied Mrs. Case, cautiously, although the girls knew that she was really much interested in bird-lore.