“You can see it down thereon the beach,” she said. “I really think it was very clever of them to make such a thing, but of course I didn’t tell them so.”
“Of course not,” said Hawk-Eye.
Now, wasn’t that just like parents?
Pretty soon, while Limberleg was cooking supper, Hawk-Eye slipped down to the beach by himself and took a look at the raft. Then he dragged it down to the water and tried it himself. He tried it several times. He didn’t say anything about it when he got back to the cave, but the Twins saw how very clean his skin looked. And they nodded knowingly at each other. They had their suspicions.
Chapter Nine.
The Surprise.
What with fish and clams and crabs and periwinkles and roots and game and berries and wild plums and all sorts of other good things to eat, as the summer came on, the Twins and their father and mother began to grow fat.