There is a large reward for anyone finding the guns Captain Jack used in the Modoc Indian War. He hid them in one of the caves. They believe it's in Catacomb Cave with its endless passages + deep holes.

Maybe the ducks could come upon a spot in the wilderness like the Oregon Vortex or Confusion Hill like I sending you some propaganda on. It's fun to visit but could be really fun if these spots were found away from anywhere.

Another true story is about a peculiar gray black stone which come from a meteorite which burst + fell on one of the islands in the Pacific. They are almost impossible to find due to natives + usual jungle hazards but 7 stones were brought out + all 7 men who possess them became millionaires within a year or two.

There is a colony of "Lemures" at the foot of Mt. Shasta. They are supposed to have built a city using so much gold that passing airplanes see the glitter. They supposedly practice mental telepathy. They shop in seed and when people try to find their city they are stopped by mental telepathy. (I've heard of them + also read about this in a magazine).

Since the 3 nephews wear coon skin hats for their Junior Woodchucks I was thinking of a nest of motherless raccoons seeing the hats + following them to cuddle up to.

Bumper Seed Co. of Calif. is offering a fabulous fortune to anyone who can grow a white marigold. Don might try. It's a case of bedding some plants + taking only pale ones to use for breeding, then trying to keep bees out or dust of any kind after you've pollinated them with a feather - tipped with pale flower pollen.

Don + 3 nephews might also be on a tropic isle for vacation when the crabs migrate back to sea to lay eggs. The ground is solid with crabs.

Horse + buggy racing up Glass mountain. Special shoes were fit on the horses and whoever got highest on the mountain won. No winner ever reached the top. (They actually did this in grandpa's day on glass mountain by Canby).

A guy got caught in a trap set over 100 years ago. It was set for poachers on an old English estate. It's mechanism was still perfect. It required a locksmith + blacksmith to remove it. (Just read this story).

There is a monstrous snail which science is touting for getting rid of small snails and slugs for farmers and such. What would happen if it ran out of said food?

Don the aircraft spotter.

Don joins the civilian air defense (plane spotter). The air force sargeant gives Don the code name and members to call on the phone to the filter center. Don becomes so puffed up he buys a uniform closely resembling the air force's and walks around saluting officers and telling privates "to look sharp!". This embarrasses the nephews and causes many sharp comments at the lookout tower, from other spotters.
Don finally gets enough time in to merit a trip to the filter center (and) also earns him a medal for hours completed as a spotter. He acts like a ViP at the filter center. He goes home a real eager beaver now. He reports in a boys' model of an enemy airplane which in Don's binoculars looks huge. The call brings a bunch of jets charging into the area.
A kid finds the model plane + is bringing it past Don when Don realizes what he's done. He later phones in a call on an unknown aircraft with unknown numbers of motors within a mile radius. The 3 nephews trace the sound and this turns out to be a neighbor's cement mixer. They tell Don + he is now humiliated. He is laughed at by everyone he thinks. He packs his uniform away feeling unworthy of it.
He goes to bed + hears a plane circling overhead, round + round. He's afraid to phone it in as another mistake but finally decides it may be an enemy. He calls in. As there is a defense plant in Don's town the center calls the airfield to send in jets to investigate. They arrive in time to guide a poor lost pilot to a landing field. The plane carried ViP's so Don is really a hero after all.