“And took the potatoes.”
“Took the potatoes twice—the cooked ones and the raw ones.”
“It’s very curious.”
“I don’t believe Pan could have jumped up—he would have shaken the other things off the shelf, too, if he had got his great paws on.”
“It must have been something,” said Bevis; “things could not go off by themselves.”
“There’s something in the island we don’t know,” said Mark, nodding his head up and down, as was his way at times when upset or full of an idea.
“Lions!” said Bevis. “Lions could get up.”
“We should have heard them roar.”
“Tigers?”
“They would have killed Pan.”