enterprising children secretly smuggled their parents used prescription bottles -- vaporizing ointment , glass vials with stoppers , duraglass green pharmaceutical bottles , and glass baby aspirin bottles with pink tops -- to school and planned to fill them to the brim with rubies , which were easy to find in arizona and which i worked eagerly to uncover , gladly kneeling in the sand for all my lunch break to find the little insignificant gems , perhaps imagining that i sought the treasure peg , the church lady , had been so sure existed in the desert , and never asking for my share of the bounty .