"Oh, he had an early meal and said he was going fishing out in the lake," said Mrs. Brown.
"He promised to take me the next time he went," said the little boy.
"He's coming back in a little while to get you both," said their mother. "He wanted to have some good fishing by himself while it was nice and quiet in the early morning hours. When you children go with him, you laugh and chatter so, and get your lines so tangled up that your father can't fish himself in comfort.
"But he likes to take you, and as soon as he has a chance to catch some fish himself, he'll come back and take you out in the boat."
"Oh, that'll be great!" cried Bunny. "I'm going to get my fish pole and line ready."
"I don't want to catch any fish," said Sue. "I don't like to have 'em bite on the sharp hook. I'll go and get one of my dolls and give her a boat ride. But I wish I had my Teddy bear."
"He'd catch fish," said Bunny, winding up his line on the little spool, called a reel, on his pole.
"She's a she. And anyway, Teddy bears can't catch fish," said Sue.
"No, but real bears can. Our teacher told us. They lean over the edge of a river and pull the fish out with their claws. Bears likes fish."