“So he has.” They had kept Pan close by them, ever since he disturbed the kangaroos so much. “Then, it could not have been Pan.”
“And I don’t see how rats could climb up, either,” said Mark. “The posts,” (to which the shelf was fixed) “are upright—”
“Mice can run up the leg of a chair,” said Bevis.
“That’s only a short way; this is—let me see—why it’s higher than your shoulder.”
“If it was not Pan, nor rats, what could it be?” said Bevis.
“Something’s been here,” said Mark; “Pan could smell it when he came in.”
“Something was up in the oak,” said Bevis, “and now he’s gone racing light to the other end of the island.”
“Something took the bit of bacon on the ground.”
“And gnawed the jack’s head.”
“And had the piece of damper.”