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Her twin could not answer . Like the other Bunkers , he was nonplussed by some of Vi 's questions . Nor did he have much idea of how Daddy Bunker was going to stop the train , which he supposed had gone ahead , and return to meet Vi and him trudging along the railroad tracks . The twins got out of the cut between the two hills after a time , and then it _ was _ long past noon and Laddie was hungry as well as Vi . It seemed terrible to the Bunker twins to have money to spend and no way to spend it . They might just as well have been on a desert island , like that man Robinson Crusoe about whom Rose read to them . `` I know a riddle about that Robinson Crusoe man .