"Why, we can catch him then," said Vi, rather feebly. "That is, we can if he wants to come out."
"I suppose we can. If he doesn't take too long. Let's," said Laddie, and he ran across the road and looked to see if there was another opening to the culvert.
But as it chanced, this was an old and unused drain, and the farther mouth of it was stopped up. This made the hole a very nice den for the little animal the Bunker twins had seen go into it. But neither Laddie nor Vi had any idea as to what the creature was.
"I'm going to get a stick and poke him out," announced Laddie.
"You can't poke him out when there is no other hole over there," rejoined Vi very sensibly.
"I'll poke him till he comes out then," said Laddie, looking all about but not starting to find a stick.
To tell the truth he was at the end of his resources. He did not know how to get at the little red animal.
"Anyway," he said at last, "maybe he didn't run in here after all."
"He did so, Laddie Bunker!" cried Violet. "I saw him."
This seemed final. Laddie looked all around again, quite puzzled as to what to do next. There was no backing out of a thing when once it was begun—not with Vi Bunker! She always insisted upon going on to the end, no matter what that end might be.