As the papers were pushed aside he and the others saw nothing at first but a lot of khaki-colored canvas.
"Fellows," declared Dick, "I don't believe this is a practical joke, at all.

It looks to me as though someone had sent us something very much like a cook tent." All thought of danger having now passed, Prescott and his comrades unfolded the canvas.

At the bottom of the package they found something that caused them to send up a wild hurrah.
Two daintily modeled white maple paddles lay there.

There were two other objects made of wood that looked like seats.
"Fellows," gasped Dick, "don't you understand what this is ?" "I do," nodded Tom huskily.

"I do, if not another soul in the world does.