I shouldn't wonder if they are full of water now." "What, with all those things in!" said Mike, in alarm.

"Oh, I don't believe that.

When shall we go and see ?" "It would be horrible to go across the common on a day like this, and we should be soaked getting through the ferns and brambles." "Yes; it wouldn't be nice now.

But will you come first fine afternoon ?" "Well, I don't know." "Oh, I say," cried Mike reproachfully--"you are getting to be a fellow! You thought the caves grand at first." "So I did, when we could go there and fish, and cook our tea, and eat it, and enjoy ourselves like Robinson Crusoe; but when it comes to finding the other cave and all that stuff there, it makes one uncomfortable like, and I don't care so much about going." "Why ?" "I don't know.

I can't explain it, but it seems queer, and as if we ought to tell my father or yours.