We can fish from the mouth." "Yes, and I found some oysters--put my foot on them." "And we can bring things by degrees: potatoes and apples and flour.
Why, Ladle, old chap, we can beat old Robinson Crusoe all to nothing, and smugglers and robbers and those sort of people.

But we must keep it a secret.

If any one else knew of this place being here it would be spoiled at once.

I say, what's that ?" "What ?" said Mike.
"That dark bit there ?" and Vince nodded to a spot in the gloomiest part of the cavern, right up in one corner, where the roof rose highest.
"Crack in the rock.

There's another just beyond." "Yes, a regular split.