Tom plodded on silently. It was well known of Tom that he could not think of two things at once.
“Five or six years, I think,” said Doc.
“That would be too long a time for the wreck, seeing the condition it’s in,” said Garry, “but anything less than that would be too short a time for the skeleton.”
“Do you mean they were lost here at different times?” Connie asked.
“Looks that way to me.”
“If there are buzzards up here a skeleton might look like that in a month or so,” Connie suggested.
“There aren’t any buzzards around here.”
“Sure there are,” said Doc. “Look at Buzzard’s Bay—it’s named for ’em.”
“It’s named for a man who had it wished on him,” said Garry. “You might as well say that Pike’s Peak was named after the pikers that go there.”
“How long do you suppose that aeroplane’s been there?”