Another Riddle for You and Me

Robyn's thinker? Who is Robyn? Who or what is the thinker? I didn't know the answers but I knew the answers must be back at the Redding Library. I went back to the library and took a look around. I walked passed Mark Twain, at least a bronze image of him and saw nothing. I went to the children's library and walked pass "Old Iron Sides" which is a model of the U.S.S. Constitution. I went around the room and saw nothing. I walked around the rest of the downstairs and then continued upstairs. I walked past the magazine area through the genealogy section and walked by Boggs Library and saw nothing. I talked to some Information Desk and no knowledge about Robyn's thinker.

I went down the stairs and then there it was on top of a shelf a bronze looking statue of a man about two feet tall in the sitting position thinking. You know right elbow on right knee with his hand cupping his chin. It was right there at the entrance of the library. I walked right by it when I first came in. I walked around the statue and I took pictures of it. But now that I know what Robyn's thinker is, what do I do? Some how I have to take a closer look at it. I have to get it off the shelf and be able to examine it closely.

I wondered if I should ask the librarian if I could look at it but then I thought that she might think I was a ding dong with a screw loose. I could see the look on her face when I explained that I found a thingy and a whatchamacallit in a carved out book, no I didn't do it, I just found it, and I put the thingy in my computer and it told me to find Robyn's Thinker. Then I would end up in the clinker looking like Robyn's Thinker. No, asking to see it was out of the question. There had to be another way. I had to steal it and bring it back of course.

Maybe if I came with a big dufflebag and took it off the shelf just before closing and walked out with it, nobody would know the difference and then I would bring it back the next day and put it back on the shelf. No it probably wouldn't work, but I now have the plan that I think will work. I will come in a work uniform and inform the library staff that I'm here to clean and maintain the statue. I will have it back the next day all clean and shiny and ready to go back to the shelf.

The next day I went to the library and did as planned. It went well. Just a few strange looks but the library gave me the Thinker and I gave them a receipt. I took it home and set it on my kitchen table. I turned it 360 degrees around. I looked at the top and I looked at the bottom and there was what I was looking for. On the bottom was a slot about the same width and thickness of my other device that I had found in the book. I put the circular end into the slot and nothing happened. Then I tried it again and put the device in it's 90 degree position and still nothing happened. There was a button that I had tried before but decided to try again. I put the device in the 90 degree angle and pushed the button. The four lights lit up and started flashing. I put it into the slot of Robyn's Thinker and it started to glow and turn colors. I jumped back in shock when a secret panel opened in his back. I looked inside and what did I see? Another riddle for you and me.

This is the History Mystery Man signing off for now until I write again.

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