Chicken Little giggled, appreciating the joke.

“Somebody you know very well,” added Katy with emphasis.

“It can’t be Frank?” Marian queried.

The children laughed in derision.

“You’re getting a little bit warm,” suggested Katy.

“Only a little bit warm—let me see—it’s Dr. Morton. No?—then it must be Dick Harding.”

Katy shook her head.

“I’m certainly a poor guesser. Is it Sherm?”

Jane was delighted with Marian’s pretending and Gertie was burning to assist.

“He was here this morning,” Gertie encouraged.