Box That Watch Found Read Free

yourselves,” Mr. Robertson added. “For instance, when Andy and I sign a log book, we call ourselves the Trailblazers.”
    “What nickname should we use?” Henry asked.
    “I’ve got an idea,” Benny cried. “How about the Boxcar Kids?”
    “The Boxcar Kids?” Andy said. “What does that mean?”
    The Aldens explained about their boxcar.
    “I like it,” Violet said. “Let’s call ourselves the Boxcar Kids.”
    “Yes, let’s!” Jessie put in.
    Henry wrote, This was the first cache we ever found. We found it by accident. We’re looking forward to more geocaching!
    “Do you want to take anything?” Mr. Robertson asked.
    “I don’t know.” Jessie scratched her head. “We don’t have anything to put in there, do we?”
    The Aldens checked their pockets. Nobody had anything to leave in the box.
    “We always carry a few trinkets for geocaching,” Andy said. He pulled a little wind-up frog out of his inside jacket pocket. “If you want to take something, you could leave this in its place.”
    “That’s nice of you,” Violet said.
    “Go on,” Mr. Robertson urged. “Pick something. You have to take something to remember your first find.”
    “Hmm. What should we take?” Henry asked the others.
    “Take the coins! Take the coins!” Benny cried, jumping up and down.
    Henry pulled out the bag with the coins and handed it to Benny. Then he wrote: took coins, left frog.
    “You should sign the log, too,” Henry said, handing the notebook to Mr. Robertson. “You would’ve found the box if we hadn’t. Plus you gave us the frog.”
    “Okay,” Mr. Robertson said. “I’ll say that the Trailblazers were here with the Boxcar Kids.” He smiled as he jotted a few lines in the notebook. When he finished writing, he sealed the notebook back up in the plastic bag, put it in the box, and closed it. Then the Aldens and the Robertsons buried the box back in the brush between the two trees just the way they’d found it.
    “There’s supposed to be another cache not too far from here,” Andy said. “It’s called ‘Edge of the Forest.’ Do you want to come with us and see if we can find it?”
    “Sure,” the Aldens replied eagerly.
    “Let me tell the GPS we’re looking for a different cache now,” Mr. Robertson said, pressing the button on the side of the gadget a few times. “Okay, now we’re set up to find the ‘Edge of the Forest’ cache.”
    Mr. Robertson handed the GPS to Benny, then said, “Which way do we want to go?”
    Benny peered at the arrow on the screen. “That way,” he said, pointing deeper into the woods.
    “I wonder if it’s over by the nature center?” Violet said. “If we stay on this trail, we’ll come out over there.”
    “Could be,” Mr. Robertson said. “I think we’re probably about half a mile from the nature center.”
    The group walked single file in a line behind Benny. Jessie held Watch’s leash. Watch sniffed the ground as they walked.
    After a little while, Benny said, “It’s 52 feet over this way!” He pointed to the right. The path curved to the left.
    They were almost through the woods at this point. They could see the nature center building just ahead.
    “We must be close then,” Andy said. “Start looking, everyone. Check tree stumps, holes in trees, piles of brush, anything that looks like it could hold a medium-sized container.”
    “The GPS is going crazy!” Benny cried. “The arrow is turning round and round. And the number keeps changing from 13 to 20 to 15 to 17—”

    “That means it’s right around here,” Mr. Robertson said.
    The Aldens and the Robertsons lifted small logs and peered in hollows of trees.
    Finally, Jessie said, “I think I found it!” She pulled a plastic storage container out from between two logs. This one was smaller than the first cache. It contained a yo-yo, a plastic watch, two keychains, and another notebook and pencil.
    “Hooray!” Benny jumped up and down. “This is fun!”
    “You know,