"Has he fallen in?" cried Mrs. Bunker.
"No, Mother! It isn't that!" said Russ. "But he's caught a riddle, and he doesn't know what to do with it."
"He's caught a riddle?" cried Uncle Fred. "What do you mean?"
"Well, he found it, or caught it, I don't know which," said Russ.
"How did he catch a riddle?" asked Daddy Bunker.
"On his hook. It's a funny thing, like a black stone, and it wiggles and sticks its head out, and Laddie doesn't know what it is, and when you don't know what a thing is that's a riddle, isn't it? Come and see!"
And down to the creek went Daddy and Mother Bunker to see the riddle that Laddie had caught.