#2869: Puzzles explain

[Possibly teenage versions of Hairy, Jill, Ponytail, and Cueball, listed from left to right, are standing in a line. Hairy is in a thinking pose, Jill faces Hairy, and Ponytail and Cueball are walking to the right; Cueball is pointing off-panel.]

Hairy: Aunt Gertrude must have left a clue to the amulet’s location.

Jill: Hmm. Wait a minute.

Jill: Gertrude. G.

Hairy: As in “Ground!”

Jill: And “diG a hole!”

Ponytail: I’ll get a shovel!

Cueball: To the yard!

[Caption below the panel:]

Some of the authors of books I read as a kid were terrible at designing puzzles.