"A sailor isn't the smallest man in the world." This from Fred. "Look at Larry."
"Well, there's more to it," Ward admitted. "The whole answer is that the smallest man in the world is the sailor who sleeps in his watch."
Larry laughed loudly, though the others appeared to be mystified.
"Ha! ha!" chortled Larry. "That's a good one. If I had had my wits about me, I could have figured that out. Sleeps in his watch! Ha! ha!"
"Well, how could he?" Polly asked dubiously.
"There's a catch in it," Larry explained, still smiling. "A watch on shipboard, you know, doesn't mean the kind of timepiece you carry in your pocket."
"I know!" cried Jess eagerly. "It's the time sailors are on duty."
"Do they go to sleep then?" Margy wanted to know, and Larry said they didn't if they knew what they were about.
"I think that's a pretty good riddle," pronounced Fred judiciously.
"I always know good ones," Ward declared, and Artie fell over upon him with crushing effect.