We hurried to the spot: there, spread out before us, was a great tract of ground, covered with the precious plant.
`It would have been rather difficult,' remarked Jack, `not to have discovered such a great field.'
`Very likely,' replied Ernest, smiling, `but I doubt if you would have discovered that it was a potato field.'
`Perhaps not,' said Jack, `you are quite welcome, at all events, to the honour of the discovery; I'll have the honour of being the first to get a supply of them.' So saying, he dug up, with hands and knife, a number of plants, and filled his game-bag with the roots. The monkey followed his example, and scratching away with his paws most cleverly, soon had a heap beside him. So delighted were we with the discovery, and so eager were we to possess a large supply of the
