"I'm afraid we'll have to find the rock without the assistance of any tracks to guide us.

There will surely be other signs, however, and we'll look for them while we look for the rock." "Suppose now we scatters and looks up along the brook and along the ridge for the rock the pacin' were done from," suggested Andy.

"'Tis like to be a different lookin' rock from most of un around here or they wouldn't have picked un." "And 'tis like to be a big un too," volunteered Micah.

"They'd be pickin' no little rock for that, whatever.

I'm thinkin' 'twill be easy to know un if we sees un." "Yes," agreed Doctor Joe, "the rock is probably larger or in some other way noticeably different from the others.