uess," answered Captain Ross. "I'll land you up
there, and then I'll cruise back. And I'll come after you, to bring you
home, whenever you want me," he added to Mr. Brown.

"We're going to stay all summer," said Bunny. "Wouldn't it be funny if
we could find that big dog and your pocketbook at the Cove, Mother?" he
asked.

"Oh, that could never happen!" declared Sue.

So the lost Bunny was found, and then it was nearly time to get supper.
The wind had all died out now, and it was so calm in the cove that
Captain Ross decided to start the boat without further delay.

"We can tie up wherever you want to over night, or we can anchor out in
the bay, or keep on going," he said to his passengers.

"I think we'd better keep on going," said Mrs. Brown. "I shall worry
less about Bunny and Sue when they are lost if it happens on dry land.
I'll know then that they haven't fallen overboard."

"We could fall in off shore, just the same as off a boat," suggested
Bunny.

"Not quite so easily. And you must be careful when you get to the
bungalow in Christmas Tree Cove," said Daddy Brown. "The bungalow is
right on the shore, but the water is shallow for a long distance out,"
he went on.

"Oh, I'm not going to fall in!" declared Bunny.

"Then we'll start and travel all night," said Captain Ross. "Speaking of
falling into the water," he said, with a jolly laugh, "can you tell me
the answer to this riddle, Bunny or Sue? Why should you tie a cake of
soap around your neck when you go in swimming?"

"I never tied a cake of soap around my neck," said the little girl.

"I like to play the cake of soap is a boat in the bathtub," remarked
Bunny. "It's lots of fun."

"But this is a riddle," went on the seaman. "Why should you tie a cake
of soap around your neck if you go in swimming in deep water?"

"It can't be for you to eat if you get hungry," said Bunny, "can it,
Captain Ross?"

"Of course not!" cried his sister. "How could you eat a cake of _soap_?"

"You could if it was a chocolate cake," returned the little boy. "But
that isn't the answer to the riddle. Please tell us, Captain," he
begged, as Bunker Blue began to pull up the anchor.

"When you go swimming in deep water and get carried too far out, if you
have a cake of soap tied around your neck it might wash you ashore! Ha!
Ha! Ha!" laughed the jolly old sailor. "Do you see, Bunny--Sue? If you
had a cake of soap on your neck it could _wash you ashore_. Soap washes,
you k