6 What are the two men up to?
　　Lucy-Ann was half afraid they might lose their way going back. But the boys had taken good noteof everything. It was when they got to the wood that difficulty might have arisen, but here thenotched trees soon set them right.
　　They saw that the plane was still down in the valley. So the men were somewhere about. Itwould be as well to be careful, and Jack¹ told Kiki to be quiet. The waterfall seemed to have goneto her head, and she had been very noisy coming back, singing and squawking loudly.
　　‘There’s our shed,’ said Lucy-Ann thankfully. It felt quite like home, coming back to it fromthat enormous mountainside. ‘I hope all our things are safe.’
　　They went inside. Yes, their things were there, exactly as they had left them. Good!
　　The sun was now sliding down the sky. It was about tea-time. The children wondered whetherto finish the rest of their chocolate and biscuits.
　　‘Better not,’ said Jack. ‘We’ll have them before we go to sleep tonight if we’re terribly hungry.
　　Oh – wait a minute – what about the stuff Aunt Allie packed for us? Haven’t we still got that? Wehaven’t eaten it?’
　　‘No, of course we haven’t,’ said Dinah. ‘I was saving it up. We’ve got so little that I thoughtwe’d better not start on that picnic packet yet.’
　　‘But all the sandwiches will be stale,’ objected Philip, who was feeling very empty indeed.
　　‘What’s the good of that? We might as well eat them whilst they’re eatable.’
　　‘Well – we could eat the sandwiches, and leave the cake and the chocolate and biscuits fortomorrow,’ said Dinah.
　　‘But first let’s get this place ready for us to sleep in tonight. It’s filthy².’
　　‘I don’t want to sleep here,’ said Lucy-Ann. ‘I don’t like it. Why can’t we sleep outside? We’vegot our macks to lie on, and four rugs – and we can unpack³ some of our clothes and have them forpillows.’
　　‘But it might pour with rain,’ said Dinah.
　　‘I could perhaps rig up some sort of roof,’ said Jack, looking round at the ruined shed. ‘There’ssome old posts here – and there’s a piece of

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