"Yes, she is,"
said Uncle Marvin, "but even you can make a rubber stamp. If we
have time this evening, I'll show you how. Here's the one I made
for myself." He reached into the pack again and pulled out an eraser.
"I didn't bother gluing mine onto a wood block. It works just fine,
but sometimes I get ink on the tips of my fingers."
Tina looked closely at
this second stamp. She could clearly see the outlines of a top hat
with a rabbit sticking out of it carved into the rubber.
"I'm going to call myself
'The Magic Man'," He told her. "My stamp may not be quite as nice
as the one my friend made for you, but I'm quite happy with it."
"What do these rubber
stamps have to do with hunting for treasure?" asked Tina.
"The treasure we'll
be looking for isn't silver, gold, or jewels," he explained. "We're
going to go hunting for a rubber stamp. And, when we find it, we're
not even going to keep it. We're just gonna print off a copy of
the picture it makes, and then put it back where we found it. I
even got you a little book to keep your rubber stamp prints in,"
he said, as he pulled a small notebook out of his backpack.
