"Hey, Bandy-legs, what d’ye suppose ails Toby there? " "He sure looks like he’d just seen a ghost, for a fact, Steve. Where are Max and his cousin Owen just now? " "Oh, they walked down along the river bank to look for signs of fresh-water clams. So we’ll just have to run things ourselves, Bandy. Hello! there, Toby, what under the sun are you staring at? " and the boy called Steve jumped to his feet as he called out. "