It contained a dozen egg and ham sandwiches," he added, with a provoking smile.
"Great Scott!" cried Frank Shaw, springing straight up in the air, like a rubber ball.

"Holy smoke! You haven't lost it, have you ?" Nestor sat back and laughed at the hungry boy's antics and then brought forth the precious packet.

The boys gathered around him, but he motioned them away.
"I'm not going to open it here," he said.

"What until we find a place where we can rest a bit.

There must be a cliff-hole over there somewhere." Disappointed, and making wry faces, the boys followed Nestor to the south until they came to a shelf of rock which faced the east.