Fred turned around so that his back was to the wind.
"When it's on the rampage?" he inquired hopefully.
Larry chuckled at that, and said he thought there might be more than one answer to a riddle.
"Not more than one that really counts," Polly insisted.
"Well, tell us what it is," begged Margy. "I can't think how the ocean can possibly be like a horse."
Artie snickered and murmured that he had "read about sea horses in a book."
"The riddle answer is 'When the tied runs out,'" Polly explained. "The tide of the ocean, you see, and the horse that was tied."
"Who do you suppose invents riddles?" speculated Margy.
No one knew, but Ward was bursting with the desire to give them one.