Let's test the collective memory.

35 years ago I read a juvenile book where the plot line consisted of
a young boy finding some clues that another young boy had written
years ago. I do not remember how boy one found the clues - maybe
they were in an old book in the house.

The present day youngster worked hard trying to solve the puzzle,
even enlisting his parents in helping to solve the mystery. The
book's conclusion (at this point I hope I am not spoiling a story you
are in the middle of !?!) involves the boy finding a tin burried in
the ground just inside a cave near his house at night.

As our yougster opens the box, finding other notes and trinkets
hidden 30 years before, the father steps out from behind a boulder
with a headress on, welcoming his son into the club he began when he
was himself just a boy growing up in the house with his parents.

I fell in love with the idea of hiding a treasure the day I read that
book in 1966-67. As a 12 year old, I got an old Christmas cookie tin
and tried to wrap up some notes in the plastic sheeting left over
from our greenhouse. (This was in the days before sealing plastic
bags and tupperware containers existed - I think.)

I think I hid the box in the gravel walk outside our house, but
nothing ever came of it. I don't think I left it there. I may have
showed it to someone, but never put any clues out that someone might
just stumble across. I have some distant memory of going back later
and finding everything soaking wet. (somethings never change)

Anyone else have similar memories? Anyone have any idea what book I
might be talking about??

Rick aka Flyfisher