“Don’t you think you’d get tired of doing nothing?” laughed George.
“Jes’ lemme try it onct,” and Sam snorted at the idea of any one being so silly as to work unless he was compelled to do so.
“Well, I hope you do get rich, Sam,” exclaimed John, “and I hope all the rest of us do too.”
“Dis am de place fo’ it,” said Sam confidently. “Jes’ think how many people would gib dere eyes jes’ to fin’ dis yere island.”
“Finding the island wouldn’t do them much good unless they knew where to look after they got here,” said Grant.
“But we do know,” exclaimed Fred. “All we have to do now is to make a few measurements and do a little digging.”
“It may be a good deal of digging,” said Grant.
“We don’t know how deep the stuff is buried, you know.”
“And we don’t care,” said George. “I’d dig all the way to China to get that stuff if it was necessary.”
“I wish we had some tools,” sighed John. “It may be slow work.”