Pick 'em up with a stick, too, did you ?" Mr.Winslow was speechless.

Captain Sam shook his head.
"And that ain't the most astonishin' part either," he observed.
"While those bills were in the dark at the bottom of that crack they must have sprouted.

They went in there nothin' but tens and twenties.

These you just gave me are fives and twos and all sorts.
You'd better poke astern of those boards again, Jed.

The roots must be down there yet; all you've scratched up are the sprouts." His only answer was a hopeless groan.