That finished that idea, and Otto remarked:
"Yes, you look like a diver, don't you?"
Johannes began to breathe heavily.
"If you like I can go up the rocks there and roll a big stone down into the sea," he said.
"What for?"
"Oh nothing. But you could watch it."
But that proposal was not accepted either and Johannes held his tongue and felt ashamed. Then he went off to look for eggs a long way from the others, in another part of the island.
When the whole party came together again down by the boat Johannes had many more eggs than the rest; he carried them carefully in his cap.
"How is it that you found so many?" asked Otto.
"I know where the nests are," answered Johannes, feeling happy. "Now I'll put them with yours, Victoria."