The little one wandered off.
"Jul, nobody wants to guess my riddles, Miss Hanenwinkel least of all," he complained to his big brother. "She said you ought to do it."
"Did she say so? All right, then, say it," Jul encouraged him.
"My first you can't drink, but eat," began Hun, and stopped.
"All right, keep on, Hun!"
"You have to make the rest, Jul; but the whole must be nutcracker," said the little boy.
"I can see that quite clearly; but because Miss Hanenwinkel has sent me a riddle to guess through you, I'll send her one, too. Come, I'll say it and you must learn it by heart. Then you can go and ask Miss Hanenwinkel to solve it for you."
Standing the little one in front of him, Jul said several times quite slowly:
"When like my first Hun's crow, disturbs all men
Into the second does the whole put then
The naughty culprit, saying, 'See you again.'" *
Before very long, the small boy had memorized the lines and eagerly ran off to serve them up to the governess.