All of these things were to be smuggled to the hermit's den Pender had discovered.
"We can get enough to last us during the encampment," said Flapp.

"And then we can have a good time whenever we wish, and Captain Putnam will never suspect what is going on." It did not take the cadets long to reach Oakville, a pretty place located among the hills.

There were a dozen stores, a blacksmith shop, two churches, and perhaps fifty houses.

Beyond were farms in a state of high cultivation, showing that the inhabitants of that section were thrifty people.
"This town is about as slow as Cedarville," observed Pender, as they walked up the single street.

"How folks can idle their lives away in such a place is what gets me." "They don't know anything of the joys of city life," returned Flapp.
"Some of these people have never seen the inside of a real theater." As might be expected, the unworthy cadets lost no time in entering one of the taverns located in Oakville, and here Flapp treated.