I don't see how you find out so many things, especially as you were never here before." "Oh, I like to just prowl around," he said, "that's the way with tigers." "I notice you always have a stick, too," I said.
He said, "Sure a stick's good company.

I just root around with it." "This is my third season here," I said, "and I never even heard about any old creek bed.

I never heard about Nick's Valley either." "Guess you never talked much with the old farmers, hey ?" he asked.
We rowed across the lake to Nick's Cove (I knew all about that, because it was where the campers were and besides I knew about it anyway).

If you will look on the map you'll see it and you'll notice how there are mountains there--kind of two sets of mountains with a space between.

I made that map so you could see just how everything happened, because, believe me, we were going to have _some_ adventure.