They insisted that she must ask the next riddle, as a reward for guessing correctly, so Polly thought for a few moments and then asked:
"What fish always goes around armed?" and added: "That's the easiest one I know."
"A shark!" cried Jess.
Polly shook her head.
"I don't know many fish," Margy complained. "Only bluefish and weakfish and—and——"
"Poor fish!" said Ward teasingly. "Anyway, whose turn is it to guess?"
"I meant to ask Jess," Polly said. "If she has given up, any one may try."
Fred thought it might be a flounder. "He might flounder when he's attacked and then the other fish couldn't fight him," he explained.
"That doesn't sound just right," Artie objected, but Polly, anxious to forestall a long argument on flounders and floundering, suggested that Ward had not had his turn.