"Does he hire them?" asked Reginald.
"If so, he could not return them after they were eaten, so that would be stealing them."
"Perhaps it is a pun on the word 'lay,'" Mr. Filkins said. "Does he lay them on the table?"
"He would have to get them first, wouldn't he? The question was, How does he get them?"
"Give it up!" said everybody. Then little Willie crept round to the protection of his mother, for George was apt to be rough on such occasions.
"The man keeps ducks!" he cried, "and his servant collects the eggs every morning."
"But you said he doesn't keep birds!" George protested.
"I didn't, did I, Mr. Filkins? I said he doesn't keep hens."
"But he finds them," said Reginald.
"No; I said his servant finds them."