Every jay in the whole lot put his eye to the hole and delivered a more chuckle-headed opinion about the mystery than the jay that went there before him.

They examined the house all over, too.

The door was standing half open, and at last one old jay happened to go and light on it and look in.

Of course, that knocked the mystery galley-west in a second.

There lay the acorns, scattered all over the floor..