"Not very large but it's a good one," he told them.
"Think it would buy two pieces of pie?" Bob asked.
"You had the pie anyhow," Jack reminded him.
"Well, you can't say I haven't earned it now," Bob retorted with a grin.
It was an hour before they found another pearl although they pulled in one or more oysters with nearly every haul.
"It must have taken whoever covered the floor of that cave some time unless he found them thicker than we are," Jack declared after he had dumped two loads of stones without a single oyster.
"I believe we'll strike them thicker somewhere around here," Mr. Lakewood said. "I think the others are doing better than we are," he added.
"Let's paddle over and see," Bob suggested.
The other boat was some hundred feet distant and the two men who were handling the rakes seemed to be putting a good deal of enthusiasm in their work as Mr. Lakewood paddled toward them.
"How's tricks?" Bob called when they were only a few feet distant.