It was easy to manage if it was a school day, because then I had ostensibly been to school and hadn't any bats.

She was not a suspicious person, but full of trust and confidence; and when I said "There's something in my coat pocket for you," she would put her hand in.

But she always took it out again, herself; I didn't have to tell her.

It was remarkable, the way she couldn't learn to like private bats.
I think she was never in the cave in her life; but everybody else went there.

Many excursion parties came from considerable distances up and down the river to visit the cave.