"Nope," said Laddie. "'Cause the chimney starts down cellar, anyhow, and goes up to the top. I mean what's in the top of a house you can't take down cellar?"
"We'll give up," said his mother. "What is it?"
"A hole in the roof!" answered Laddie with a laugh. "You can't take a hole in the roof down cellar, can you?"
"No, I guess you can't," admitted Uncle Fred. "That's a pretty good riddle, Laddie."
It was two or three days after Mun Bun had become stuck in the mud pie that the children awakened one morning to find a high wind blowing outside.
"Oh, is this a cyclone?" asked Violet, for she had heard they had such winds in the West.
"Oh, no, this wind is nothing like as strong as a cyclone," answered Uncle Fred. "It's just one of our summer winds. They're strong, but they do no damage. Look out for your hair if you go outdoors; it might blow off."
"My hair can't blow off 'cause it's fast to me—it's growed fast!" explained Violet.
"Well, then be careful it doesn't blow you away, hair and all!" said Uncle Fred, but by the way he laughed Violet knew he was only joking.
The children went out to play, and they had to hold their hats on most of the time, as the wind blew across the plain so strongly. But the six little Bunkers did not mind.