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Garis - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Uncle Wiggily's Automobile - -Author: Howard R. Garis - -Illustrator: Louis Wisa - -Release Date: July 30, 2019 [EBook #60017] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK UNCLE WIGGILY'S AUTOMOBILE *** - - - - -Produced by David Edwards, Val Wooff and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 432px;"> -<img src="images/cover.jpg" width="447" height="640" alt="Cover" /> -</div> - - - -<h1>UNCLE WIGGILY'S<br /> -<span>(TRADE MARK REGISTERED)</span><br /> -AUTOMOBILE</h1> - - <p class="center"><i>by</i> - HOWARD R. GARIS<br /></p> - -<p class="center"><i>Author of</i> "UNCLE WIGGILY BEDTIME STORIES",<br /> - "UNCLE WIGGILY'S PICTURE BOOK",<br /> - "UNCLE WIGGILY'S STORY BOOK", Etc.<br /></p> - - <p class="center"><i>Illustrated by</i><br /> - LOUIS WISA<br /></p> - -<p class="center">A. L. BURT COMPANY <br />PUBLISHERS NEW YORK -</p> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum">[Pg Frontispiece]</span> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 383px;"> -<img src="images/frontis.jpg" width="383" height="640" alt="Frontispiece" /> -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum">[Pg Title]</span> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 432px;"> -<img src="images/titlepage.jpg" width="432" height="640" alt="Title Page" /> -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> -<div class="bbox"> -<p class="center p150">UNCLE WIGGILY BOOKS</p> - -<p class="center p08">(TRADE MARK REGISTERED)</p> - -<p class="center"><i>by</i><br /> -HOWARD R. GARIS</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center"><b>BEDTIME STORIES</b></p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY and CHARLIE and ARABELLA CHICK<br /></span> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE RINGTAILS<br /></span> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY ON SUGAR ISLAND<br /></span> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY AT THE SEASHORE<br /></span> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY AND BABY BUNTY<br /></span> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY IN THE COUNTRY<br /></span> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY'S PUZZLE BOOK<br /></span> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY IN THE WOODS<br /></span> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY'S ADVENTURES<br /></span> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY'S AUTOMOBILE<br /></span> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY ON THE FARM<br /></span> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY'S BUNGALOW<br /></span> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY'S FORTUNE<br /></span> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY'S TRAVELS<br /></span> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY'S AIRSHIP</span> -</div></div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center">Larger Uncle Wiggily Volumes -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center">UNCLE WIGGILY'S PICTURE BOOK</p> - -<p class="center"><i>33 full colored illustrations and<br /> -32 in black and white</i></p> - -<p class="center">UNCLE WIGGILY'S STORY BOOK</p> - -<p class="center"><i>16 full colored illustrations and<br /> -29 in black and white</i></p> -</div> - -<p class="center"><i>Copyright 1913 by</i><br /> -R. F. FENNO & COMPANY<br /> -UNCLE WIGGILY'S AUTOMOBILE</p> -<hr class="tb" /> -<p class="center"><i>Printed in the United States of America</i></p> -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> -<hr class="chap" /> -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 7]</span> -<p class="center p120"><b>PUBLISHER'S NOTE</b></p> -</div> - -<p>These stories appeared originally in the Evening News, of Newark, N. -J., and are reproduced in book form by the kind permission of the -publishers of that paper, to whom the author extends his thanks.</p> - -<div class="chapter"> -<hr class="chap" /> -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 9]</span> -<p class="center p180">Uncle Wiggily's Automobile</p> -</div> - -<hr class="r15" /> - -<h2 class="no-break"> STORY I<br /> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE SORROWFUL CROW</span></h2> - - -<p>Once upon a time, a good many years ago, there was an old rabbit gentleman -named Uncle Wiggily Longears. He was related to Johnnie and Billie -Bushytail, the squirrels, as well as being an Uncle to Sammie and Susie -Littletail, his rabbit nephew and niece. And Uncle Wiggily lived near -Jackie and Peetie Bow Wow, the puppy dogs, while, not far away was the -home of the Wibblewobble family of ducks, and across the street, almost, -around the corner by the old slump, were the Kat children, and Neddie and -Beckie Stubtail, the nice bear children.</p> - -<p>One day Uncle Wiggily was not feeling very well, so he sent for Dr. -Possum, who soon came over. Dr. Possum found Uncle Wiggily sitting in the -rocking chair on the front porch of the hollow stump house where he lived.</p> - -<p>"Well, what is the trouble, Uncle Wiggily?" asked Dr. Possum, as he looked -over the tops of his glasses.</p> - -<p>"I am sick," answered the rabbit gentleman.</p> - -<p>"Sick; eh?" exclaimed Dr. Possum. "Let me see. Put out your tongue!"</p> - -<p>Uncle Wiggily did so.</p> - -<p>"Ha! Hum!" exclaimed Dr. Possum.</p> - -<p>"Yes, I think you are ill, and you will have to do something for it -right away."</p> - -<p>"What will I have to do?" asked Uncle Wiggily, anxious-like, and his nose -twinkled like a star on a frosty night.</p> - -<p>"You will simply have to go away," said Dr. Possum. "There is no help for -it."</p> - -<p>"I don't see why!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily, and he bent one of his long -ears forward and the other backward, until he looked as if he had the -letter V on top of his head. But, of course, he hadn't, for that letter is -in the reading book—or it was the last time I looked.</p> - -<p>"Yes," said Dr. Possum, "you must go away."</p> - -<p>"I don't see why," said Uncle Wiggily again. "Couldn't I get well at home -here?"</p> - -<p>"No, you could not," replied Dr. Possum. "If you want me to tell -you the truth——"</p> - -<p>"Oh, always tell the truth!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily, quickly. "Always!"</p> - -<p>"Well, then," said Dr. Possum, as he looked in his medicine case, to see -if he had any strong peppermint for Aunt Jerushia Ann, the little, nervous -old lady woodchuck. "Well, then, to tell you the truth, you are getting -too fat, and you must take more exercise."</p> - -<p>"Exercise!" cried Uncle Wiggily. "Why! Don't I play a game of Scotch -checkers with Grandfather Goosey Gander, the old gentleman duck, nearly -every day? And we always eat the sugar cookies we use for checkers."</p> - -<p>"That's just it," said Dr. Possum, as he rolled up a sweet sugar-pill for -Sammie Littletail, the mill rabbit boy; "you eat too much, and you don't -jump around enough."</p> - -<p>"But I used to," said Uncle Wiggily, while he twinkled his pink nose like -a red star on a frosty night. "Why, don't you remember the time I went -off and had a lot of adventures, and how I traveled after my fortune, and -found it?"</p> - -<p>"That is just the trouble," spoke Dr. Possum. "You found your fortune, and -since you became rich you do nothing. I remember the time when you used to -teach Sammie and Susie Littletail how to keep out of traps, and how to -dig burrows and watch out for savage dogs."</p> - -<p>"Ah, yes!" sighed Uncle Wiggily. "Those were happy days."</p> - -<p>"And healthful days, too," said Dr. Possum. "You were much better off -then, and not so fat."</p> - -<p>"And so you think I had better start traveling again?" asked Uncle -Wiggily, taking off his high hat and bowing politely to Uncle Lettie, the -nice goat lady, who was passing by, with her two horns sticking through -holes in her Sunday-go-to-meeting bonnet.</p> - -<p>"Yes, it would be the best thing for you," spoke Dr. Possum. "Medicine is -all right sometimes, but fresh air, and sunshine, and being out-of-doors, -and happy and contented, and helping people, as Uncle Booster, the old -ground hog gentleman, used to do—all these are better than medicine."</p> - -<p>"How is Uncle Booster, by the way?" inquired the rabbit gentleman.</p> - -<p>"Fine! He helped a little girl mouse to jump over a mud puddle the other -day, and after she was on the other side she jumped back, all by herself, -and fell in," said Dr. Possum, with a laugh. "That's the kind of a -gentleman Uncle Booster is!"</p> - -<p>"Ha! Ha!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily. "That's queer! But now do you -think it would do me any good to start off and have some adventures in -my automobile?"</p> - -<p>"It would be better to walk," said Dr. Possum. "Remember you called me in -to tell you what was the matter with you, because you felt ill. And I tell -you that you must go around more; take more exercise. Still, if you had -rather go in your auto than walk, I have no objections."</p> - -<p>"I had much rather," said Uncle Wiggily. "I like my auto."</p> - -<p>"Then," said Dr. Possum, "I will write that as a prescription." So on a -piece of white birch bark he wrote:</p> - -<p>"One auto ride every day, to be taken before meals.</p> - -<p class="center">Dr. Possum."</p> - -<p>"I'll do it at once," said the rabbit gentleman.</p> - -<p>Uncle Wiggily Longears was a quite rich, you know, having found his -fortune, of about a million yellow carrots, as I have told you in some -other stories, so he could afford to have an auto.</p> - -<p>And it was the nicest auto you could imagine. It had a turnip for a -steering wheel, and whenever Uncle Wiggily got hungry he could take a -bite of turnip. Sometimes after a long trip the steering wheel would be -all eaten up, and old Circus Dog Percival, who mended broken autos, would -have to put on a new wheel.</p> - -<p>And to make a noise, so that no one would get run over by his machine, -Uncle Wiggily had a cow's horn fastened on his auto; so instead of going -"Honk-honk!" like a duck, it went "Moo! Moo!" like a bossy cow at supper -time.</p> - -<p>"Well, if I'm going off for my health, I'd better start," said Uncle -Wiggily, as he went out to his auto after Dr. Possum had gone. "I'll take -a long ride."</p> - -<p>So he got in the machine, and pushed on the doodle-oodle-um, and twisted -the tinkerum-tankerum, and away he went as fast as anything, if not faster.</p> - -<p>Over the fields and through the woods he went, and pretty soon he came to -a place where lived a sorrowful crow gentleman. The crow is a black bird, -and it pulls up corn and goes "Caw! Caw! Caw!" Nobody knows why, though.</p> - -<p>And this crow was very sorrowful. He was always thinking something -unpleasant was going to happen, such as that he was going to drop his -ice cream cone in the mud, or that somebody would put whitewash on him. -Oh, he was very sorrowful, was this crow, and his name was Mr. Caw-caw. -When Uncle Wiggily got to where the crow was sitting in a tree the black -creature cried:</p> - -<p>"Oh, dear! O woe is me! O unhappiness!"</p> - -<p>"Why, what is the matter?" asked Uncle Wiggily, curious-like!</p> - -<p>"Oh, something is going to happen!" cried the crow. "I know it will rain -or snow or freeze, or maybe my feathers will all blow off."</p> - -<p>"Don't be silly!" said Uncle Wiggily. "You just come for an auto ride with -me, and you'll feel better. Come along, bless your black tail!"</p> - -<p>So Mr. Caw-caw got into the auto, and once more Uncle Wiggily started off. -He had not gone very far before, all of a sudden, there was a bangity-bang -noise, and the auto stopped so quickly that Uncle Wiggily and the crow -were almost thrown out of their seats.</p> - -<p>"There!" cried the black crow. "I knew something would happen!" and he -cried "Caw! Caw! Caw!"</p> - -<p>"It is nothing at all," said the rabbit gentleman as he got out to -look. "Only the whizzicum-whazzicum has become twisted around the -jump-over-the-clothes basket, and we can't go until it's fixed."</p> - -<p>"Can't go?" asked the crow.</p> - -<p>"Can't go—no," said Uncle Wiggily. And he didn't know what to do. But -just then along came Old Dog Percival, who used to work in a circus.</p> - -<p>"I'll pull you along," he said. "You sit in the auto and steer, and I'll -pull you." And he did, by a rope fast to the car. The crow said it was -funny to have a circus dog pulling an auto, but Uncle Wiggily did not -mind, and soon they were at a place where the auto could be fixed. So -Uncle Wiggily and the crow waited there, while the machine was being -mended.</p> - -<p>"And we will see what happens to us to-morrow," said Uncle Wiggily, "for I -am going to travel on." And he did. And in case the jumping rope doesn't -skip over the clock, and make the hands tickle the face I'll tell you next -about Uncle Wiggily and the school teacher.</p> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 17]</span> -<h2> STORY II<br /> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE SCHOOL TEACHER</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>Uncle Wiggily Longears, the nice old gentleman rabbit, was riding along in -his automobile, with the turnip for a steering wheel, and he had not yet -taken more than two bites out of the turnip, for it was only shortly after -breakfast. With him was Mr. Caw-caw, the black crow gentleman.</p> - -<p>"Do you think your automobile will go all right now?" asked the crow, as -he looked down from his seat at the big wheels which had German sausages -around for tires, so in case Old Percival, the circus dog, got hungry, he -could eat one for lunch.</p> - -<p>"Oh yes, it will go all right now," said the rabbit gentleman. "Specially -since we have had it fixed."</p> - -<p>I think, if I am not mistaken, and in case the cat has not eat up all the -bacon, that I told you in the story before this one how Uncle Wiggily had -been advised by Dr. Possum to go traveling around for his health and how -he had started off in the auto. Did I tell you that?</p> - -<p>He met Mr. Caw-caw and the tinkle-inkle-um on the auto broke, or else it -was the widdle-waddle-um. Anyhow, it wouldn't go, and Old Dog Percival, -coming along, pulled the machine to the fixing place. Then Uncle Wiggily -and Mr. Caw-caw slept all night and now it was daylight again and they had -started off once more.</p> - -<p>"It is a lovely morning," said Uncle Wiggily, as he drove the machine over -the fields and through the woods. "A lovely spring day!"</p> - -<p>"But we may get an April shower before night," said Mr. Caw-caw, the crow -gentleman, who had black feathers and who was always sad instead of being -happy. "Oh, dear, I'm sure it will rain," he said.</p> - -<p>"Nonsensicalness!" cried Uncle Wiggily, swinging his ears around just like -some circus balloons trying to get away from an elephant eating peanuts. -"Cheer up! Be happy!"</p> - -<p>"Well, if it doesn't rain it will snow," said the sad crow.</p> - -<p>"Oh, cheer up," said Uncle Wiggily, as he took another bite out of the -turnip steering wheel. "Have a nibble," he went on politely. "It may only -blow."</p> - -<p>"I'm sure it will do something," spoke the gloomy crow. "Anyhow I don't -care for turnip."</p> - -<p>"Have some corn then," said Uncle Wiggily.</p> - -<p>"Is it popped?" asked the crow.</p> - -<p>"No, but I can pop it," said the old gentleman rabbit. "I will pop it on -my automobile engine, which gets very hot, almost like a gas stove."</p> - -<p>So the old rabbit gentleman, who was riding around in his auto to take -exercise, because he was getting too fat, and Dr. Possum had said so, -popped the corn on the hot engine, and very good it was, too, for the crow -to eat.</p> - -<p>But even the popcorn could not seem to make the unhappy crow feel better, -and he cried so much, as the auto went along, that his tears made a -mud-puddle in the road where they happened to be just then. And the auto -wheels, with the German bologna sausages on for tires, splashed in the mud -and made it fly all over like anything.</p> - -<p>Then, just as Uncle Wiggily steered the auto right away from the road into -a nice green wood, where the leaves were just coming out on the trees, the -old gentleman rabbit heard some one saying:</p> - -<p>"Oh, dear! Oh, dear me! I know I'll never be at school on time! Oh, what -a bad accident!"</p> - -<p>"My!" cried Uncle Wiggily. "What can that be?"</p> - -<p>"Oh, something dreadful, you may be sure," said Mr. Caw-caw, the crow -gentleman. "Oh, I just knew something would happen on this trip."</p> - -<p>"Well, let it happen!" said Uncle Wiggily. "I like things to happen. This -seems to be some one in trouble, and I am going to help, whoever it is."</p> - -<p>"Then please help me," said the voice.</p> - -<p>"Who are you?" asked Uncle Wiggily.</p> - -<p>"I am the lady mouse school teacher," said some one they could not see, -"and on my way to school I ran a thorn in my foot, so I cannot walk. If I -am not there on time to open the school, the children will not know what -to do. Oh, isn't it terrible!"</p> - -<p>"Say no more!" cried Uncle Wiggily, cheerfully. "You shall ride to school -in my auto. Then you will be there on time, and the animal children will -not have to go home and miss their lessons. I am so glad I can help you. -Isn't it horribly jolly to help people?" cried Uncle Wiggily to the crow, -just as an English rabbit might have done.</p> - -<p>"Ha! It's jolly, all right, if you can help them," said the crow. "But I'm -sure something will happen. Some bad elephant will eat off our sausage -tires, or a cow will drink the gasoline, or we shall roll down a hill."</p> - -<p>"Nonsensicalness!" cried Uncle Wiggily, real exasperated-like, which means -bothered. "Get in, Miss Mouse School Teacher," he said, "and I will soon -have you at your classes."</p> - -<p>So the lady mouse school teacher got into the auto, and sat beside Mr. -Caw-caw, who asked her how many six and seven grains of corn were.</p> - -<p>"Thirteen," said the nice mouse school teacher.</p> - -<p>"Thirteen in the winter," spoke the crow, "but I mean in summer."</p> - -<p>"Six and seven are thirteen in summer just as in winter," said the lady -mouse.</p> - -<p>"Wrong," croaked the crow. "If you plant thirteen grains of corn in summer -you'll get thirteen stalks, each with thirteen ears of corn on, and each -ear has five hundred and sixty-three grains, and thirteen times thirteen -times five hundred and sixty-three makes—how many does it make?" he asked -of Uncle Wiggily suddenly.</p> - -<p>"Oh, please stop!" cried the lady mouse school teacher; "you make my head -ache."</p> - -<p>"How much is one headache and two headaches?" asked the crow, who seemed -quite curious.</p> - -<p>"Stop! Stop!" cried Uncle Wiggily, as he took a bite out of the turnip -steering wheel. "You will make the auto turn a somersault."</p> - -<p>"How much," said the crow, "is one somersault and one peppersault added to -a mustard plaster and divided by——"</p> - -<p>"There you go!" suddenly cried Uncle Wiggily as the auto hit a stone and -stopped. "You've made the plunkity-plunk bite the wizzie-wazzie!"</p> - -<p>"Oh, dear!" cried the crow. "I knew something would happen!"</p> - -<p>"Well, it was your fault," said Uncle Wiggily. "Now I'll have to have the -auto fixed again."</p> - -<p>"Can't we go on to school?" asked the lady mouse teacher anxiously.</p> - -<p>"No, I am sorry to say, we cannot," said Uncle Wiggily.</p> - -<p>"Then I shall be late, and the children will all run home after all. Oh, -dear!"</p> - -<p>"I knew something—" began the crow.</p> - -<p>"Stop it!" cried Uncle Wiggily, provoked-like.</p> - -<p>The lady mouse school teacher did not know what to do, and it looked as if -she would be late, for even when Uncle Wiggily had crawled under the auto, -and had put pepper on the German sausage tires, he could not make the -machine go.</p> - -<p>But, just as the school teacher was going to be late, along came -flying Dickie Chip-Chip, the sparrow boy, with his new airship. And in -the airship he gave the lady mouse school teacher a ride to school up -above the tree tops, so she was not late after all.</p> - -<p>She called a good-by to Uncle Wiggily, who some time afterward had his -auto fixed again, and then he and the crow gentleman went on and had more -adventures. What the next one was I'll tell you on the next page, when -the story will be about Uncle Wiggily and the candy—that is, if a little -Montclair girl, named Cora, doesn't eat too much peanut brittle, and get -her hair so sticky that the brush can't comb it.</p> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 24]</span> -<h2> STORY III<br /> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE CANDY</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>Uncle Wiggily, the nice old gentleman rabbit, was riding along in his -automobile, with the turnip for a steering wheel and big, fat German -bologna sausages on for tires. On the seat beside Uncle Wiggily was the -crow gentleman, named Mr. Caw-caw.</p> - -<p>"Well, where do you think you will go to-day?" asked the crow gentleman, -as he straightened out some of his black feathers with his black bill, for -the wind had ruffled them all up.</p> - -<p>"Where will I go?" repeated Uncle Wiggily, as he steered to one side -so he would not run over a stone and hurt it, "well, to tell you the -truth—I hardly know. Dr. Possum, when he told me to ride around for my -health, because I was getting too fat, did not say where I was to go, in -particular."</p> - -<p>"Then let's go straight ahead," said the crow. "I don't like going around -in a circle; it makes me dizzy."</p> - -<p>"And it does me, also," spoke the rabbit gentleman. "That is why I never -can ride much on a merry-go-'round, though I often take Johnnie or Billie -Bushytail, my squirrel nephews, or Buddy and Brighteyes, the guinea pig -children, on one for a little while. But, Mr. Crow, we will go straight -ahead in my auto, and we will see what adventure happens to us next."</p> - -<p>For you know something was always happening to Uncle Wiggily as he -traveled around. Sometimes it was one thing, and sometimes another. You -remember, I dare say, how, the day before, he had nearly helped to keep -the nice lady mouse school teacher from being late.</p> - -<p>Well, pretty soon, as Uncle Wiggily and the crow gentleman were riding -in the auto, all at once they looked down the road and saw a little girl -sitting on a stone. She had a box in her hands and she was trying to open -it. But she was crying so hard that she could not see out of her eyes, -because of her tears, and so she could not open the box.</p> - -<p>"My goodness me sakes alive, and some roast beef gravy!" cried Uncle -Wiggily, as he stopped the auto. "What can be the matter with that child?" -For you know Uncle Wiggily loved children.</p> - -<p>Then the old gentleman rabbit blew on the cow's horn, that was on his auto -to warn people kindly to get out of danger, and the cow's horn went "Moo! -Moo! Moo!" very softly, three times just like that.</p> - -<p>The little girl looked up through her tears, and when she saw Uncle -Wiggily and the crow gentleman in the auto, she smiled and asked:</p> - -<p>"Where is the mooley cow?"</p> - -<p>"Only her horn is here," said Uncle Wiggily, as he made it go "Moo!" again.</p> - -<p>"Oh, dear," said the little girl. "I just love a mooley cow," and she was -going to cry some more, because there was no cow to be seen, when Uncle -Wiggily asked:</p> - -<p>"What is the matter? Why are you crying?"</p> - -<p>"Because I can't get this box open," said the little girl, whose name was -Cora.</p> - -<p>"What is in the box?" asked the rabbit gentleman.</p> - -<p>"Candy," said little Cora. "I just love candy, and I haven't had any in -ever so long. Now my papa gave me a box, but the string is tied on it so -tightly that I can't get the box open, and my papa went away and forgot -about it. Oh, dear. Boo! hoo! Can you open it for me, Uncle Wiggily?"</p> - -<p>The rabbit gentleman thought for a moment. Then he said, with a twinkle in -his eyes that matched the twinkle in his nose:</p> - -<p>"Well, possibly I might untie the string, but you see my teeth are -so big and sharp, and are so used to gnawing wood, and bark and -carrots, and I can't see very well, even with my glasses, so I might -accidentally, when I bite through the string I might, by mistake, also -bite through the box, and eat the candy myself."</p> - -<p>"Oh, dear!" cried the little girl. Then she added quickly, as she thought -of her polite manners: "I wouldn't mind, Uncle Wiggily, if you did eat -some of the candy. Only open the box for me so I can get part of it," she -said.</p> - -<p>"I think I have a better plan than that," said the old gentleman rabbit. -"I will ask Mr. Caw-caw, our crow friend here, to untie the string for -you. With his sharp bill this crow gentleman can easily loosen the knot, -and that, too, without danger of breaking the box and taking any candy."</p> - -<p>"Will he do it?" asked the little girl eagerly.</p> - -<p>"To be sure, I will," said the crow gentleman, and he loosened that knot -then and there with his sharp bill, which seemed just made for such things.</p> - -<p>"Oh, what lovely candy!" cried the little girl, as she took the cover -off the box. "I am going to give you each some!" she added. And she gave -Mr. Caw-caw some candy flavored with green corn, for he liked that best -of all, and to Uncle Wiggily she gave some nice, soft, squishie-squashie -candy, with a carrot inside. And the little girl ate some chocolate candy -for herself, and did not cry any more.</p> - -<p>"Get in my auto," said Uncle Wiggily, "and I will give you a ride. Perhaps -we may have an adventure."</p> - -<p>"Oh, I just love adventures!" said little Cora. "I love them even better -than candy. But we can eat candy in the auto anyhow," she went on, with a -laugh, as she climbed up in the seat.</p> - -<p>Then Uncle Wiggily turned the tinkerum-tankerum, and with a feather -tickled the whizzicum-whazzicum to make the auto go, and it went. The -old rabbit gentleman made the cow's horn blow "Moo! Moo!" and away they -started off through the woods.</p> - -<p>They had not gone very far, and Cora had eaten only about six pieces of -candy, when they heard a voice behind them shouting:</p> - -<p>"Wait for me! Wait for me! I want a ride!"</p> - -<p>"Ha!" cawed the crow, "who can that be?"</p> - -<p>"I'll look," said Uncle Wiggily, and he did. Then he exclaimed: "Oh, dear! -It's the circus elephant. And he's grown so big lately, that if he gets in -with us he will break my auto."</p> - -<p>"Don't let him do it then," said Mr. Caw-caw.</p> - -<p>"I don't believe I will," said Uncle Wiggily.</p> - -<p>"But would it be polite not to give him a ride?" asked the little girl, as -she ate another piece of candy.</p> - -<p>"No, you are right, it would not," said Uncle Wiggily, decidedly. "I must -give him a ride, but he's sure to break my auto, and then I can't ride -around for my health any more, and stop getting fat. Oh, dear, what a -predicament!" A predicament means trouble, you know.</p> - -<p>Then the elephant called again:</p> - -<p>"I say, hold on there! I want a ride!" and he came on as fast as anything. -Uncle Wiggily was going to stop, and let the big creature get in, when the -crow gentleman said:</p> - -<p>"I have it! We'll pretend we don't hear him. We'll keep right on, and not -stop, and then it won't be impolite, for he will think we didn't listen to -what he said."</p> - -<p>"That's it," said Uncle Wiggily. "We'll do that. Pachy is the dearest old -chap in the world, you know, but he really is too big for this auto." -Pachy was the elephant's name, you see.</p> - -<p>So Uncle Wiggily made the auto go faster, and still the elephant ran after -it, calling:</p> - -<p>"Stop! Stop! I want a ride!"</p> - -<p>"He's catching up to us," said the crow, looking back.</p> - -<p>"Oh, dear!" cried Uncle Wiggily, "what's to be done?"</p> - -<p>"I know what to do," spoke Cora. "I'll drop some pieces of candy in the -road for him, and when he stops to eat them we can get so far away he -can't catch up to us."</p> - -<p>"Please do," begged Uncle Wiggily, and the little girl did. And when the -elephant saw the pieces of candy, being very fond of sweet things, he -stopped to pick them up in his trunk and eat them.</p> - -<p>And it took him quite a while, for the candy was well scattered about. And -when the elephant had eaten the last piece Uncle Wiggily and the crow, and -little girl, were far off in the auto and the elephant could not catch -them to break the machine; though even if he had smashed it he would not -have meant to do so.</p> - -<p>So Uncle Wiggily rode on, looking for more adventures, and he soon found -one. I'll tell you about it in the next story, which will be called, -"Uncle Wiggily at the Squirrel House;"—that is if the clothes wringer -doesn't squeeze the rubber ball so it cries and makes water come in the -eyes of the potatoes.</p> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 31]</span> -<h2> STORY IV<br /> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY AT THE SQUIRREL HOUSE</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>Uncle Wiggily, the nice old gentleman rabbit, was standing one day in -front of his new automobile which had run away with him upsetting, and -breaking one of the wheels. But it had been fixed all right again.</p> - -<p>"I think this automobile will go fine now," said Uncle Wiggily to himself, -as he got up on the front seat. "Now, I am ready to start off on some -more travels, and in search of more adventures, and this time I won't -have to walk. Now let me see, do I turn on the fizzle-fazzle first or the -twinkum-twankum? I forget."</p> - -<p>So he looked carefully all over the automobile to see if he could remember -what first to turn to make it go, but he couldn't think what it was. -Because, you see, he was all excited over his accident. I didn't tell you -that story because I thought it might make you cry. It was very sad. The -crow gentleman flew away after it.</p> - -<p>"I guess I'll have to look in the cookbook," said Uncle Wiggily. -"Perhaps that will tell me what to do."</p> - -<p>So he took out a cookbook from under the seat and leafed it over until -he came to the page where it tells how to cook automobiles, and there he -found what he wanted to know.</p> - -<p>"Ha! I see!" cried Uncle Wiggily; "first I must twist the dinkum-dankum, -and then I must tickle the tittlecum-tattlecum, and then I'll go."</p> - -<p>Well, he did this, and just as he was about to start off on his journey -out came running Sammie and Susie Littletail, the two rabbit children, -with whom Uncle Wiggily sometimes lived.</p> - -<p>"Oh, Uncle Wiggily!" cried Susie, "where are you going?"</p> - -<p>"And may we come along?" asked Sammie, making his nose twinkle like two -stars on a night in June.</p> - -<p>"I am going off on a long journey, for my health, and to look for more -adventures," said the old gentleman rabbit. "I am tired of staying -around the house taking medicine for my rheumatism. So Dr. Possum told -me to travel around. I don't just know where I am going, but I am going -somewhere, and if you like you may come part of the way. Hop in."</p> - -<p>Sammie and Susie hopped in the back part of the auto, where there -were two little seats for them, and then Uncle Wiggily turned the -whizzicum-whazzicum around backward and away they went as nicely as the -baby creeps over the floor to catch the kittie by the tail; only you -mustn't do that, you know; indeed not!</p> - -<p>"Oh, isn't this great?" cried Susie, in delight.</p> - -<p>"It certainly is," agreed Sammie, blinking his pink eyes because the wind -blew in them. "I hope Uncle Wiggily has an adventure while we're with him."</p> - -<p>And then, all of a sudden, a doggie ran across the road in front of the -auto, and the doggie's tail was hanging down behind him and sticking out -quite a bit, and, as it was quite a long tail, Uncle Wiggily nearly ran -over it, but, of course, he didn't mean to, even if he had done it.</p> - -<p>"Look out of the way, little doggie!" cried the old gentleman rabbit, -kindly.</p> - -<p>"I am looking as fast as I can!" cried the doggie, and he ran to the -sidewalk as quickly as he could, and then he turned around to see if his -tail was still fastened to him.</p> - -<p>"That came near being an adventure," said Susie, waving her pocket -handkerchief.</p> - -<p>"Yes, almost too near," said Uncle Wiggily. "I think I will go through the -woods instead of along the streets, and then I won't be in any danger of -running over any one."</p> - -<p>So he steered the auto toward the woodland road, and Sammie cried:</p> - -<p>"Oh, I know what let's do! Let's go call on Johnnie and Billie Bushytail, -the squirrel boys. Then we'll have some fun."</p> - -<p>"All right, we'll do it," agreed Uncle Wiggily, for he liked fun as much -as the children did, if not more.</p> - -<p>Well, as they were going along the road, all of a sudden they heard a -little voice calling to them.</p> - -<p>"Oh, please don't run over me!" the voice cried. "Please be careful!" And, -looking down, Sammie saw a little black cricket on the path just ahead of -the auto, which Uncle Wiggily was now making go very slowly.</p> - -<p>"Why don't you get out of the way if you don't want to be run over?" asked -Susie, politely, for the cricket just stood still there, looking at them, -and not making a move.</p> - -<p>"Oh, I'm so stiff from the cold that I can't hop about any more," said the -cricket, "or else I would hop out of the way. You know I can't stand cold -weather."</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 368px;"> -<img src="images/p034.jpg" width="368" height="640" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>"That's too bad," said Uncle Wiggily as he stopped the -auto. "I'll give you a ride, and perhaps I can find some warm place for -you to spend the winter."</p> - -<p>So the old gentleman rabbit kindly picked up the cold and stiff cricket -and gave it to Susie, and Susie gently put it in the warm pocket of her -jacket, and there it was so nice and cozy-ozy that the cricket went fast -to sleep.</p> - -<p>And then, in about forty-'leven squeak-squawk toots of the big mooley-cow -automobile horn, there they were at the home of Johnnie and Billy -Bushytail, the squirrel brothers.</p> - -<p>"Toot! Toot!" tooted Uncle Wiggily on his tooter-tooter mooley-cow horn.</p> - -<p>"There! I guess that will bring out the boys if they are in the house," -said the old gentleman rabbit.</p> - -<p>And then, all of a sudden, something happened. Susie and Sammie were -looking at the front door, expecting Johnnie and Billie to come out, when -Susie saw a great big bear's face up at one window of the squirrel house.</p> - -<p>"Oh! Look! Look!" she cried. "The bear has gotten in and maybe he has -bitten Johnnie."</p> - -<p>And just then Sammie looked at the other window and he saw a wolf's face -peering out.</p> - -<p>"Oh, dear!" cried Sammie, "the wolf has gotten Billie."</p> - -<p>"My gracious!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily. "I'm going for the police -right away. Hold on tightly, children, for I am going to twist the -tinkerum-tankerum and make this automobile go very fast. Oh! how sorry I -am for poor Johnnie and Billie."</p> - -<p>But just before Uncle Wiggily could start the auto, there was a shout of -laughter. The front door of the Bushytail home swung open, and out rushed -Billie and Johnnie, jumping and skipping. And Johnnie had a wolf's false -face in his paws and Billie had a bear's false face in his paws.</p> - -<p>"Ho! Ho!" they shouted together. "Did we scare you, Uncle Wiggily? We -didn't mean to, but we were just practising."</p> - -<p>"Was that you boys looking out of the windows with your false faces on?" -asked Uncle Wiggily very much surprised-like.</p> - -<p>"That was us," said Johnnie.</p> - -<p>"And wasn't there a real bear?" asked Susie, flapping her ears.</p> - -<p>"And wasn't it a real wolf?" asked Sammie, wiggling his paws.</p> - -<p>"Not a bit," said Billie. "We're just getting ready for Hallowe'en -to-morrow night, and those were our false faces, you know, and I wish -you'd all stay with us and have some fun."</p> - -<p>"We will," said Uncle Wiggily. "I'll put my auto in the barn, and we'll -stay."</p> - -<p>So they did, and in case the little wooden dog with the pink-blue nose -doesn't bite the tail of the woolly cat, I'll tell you next about Uncle -Wiggily having Hallowe'en fun.</p> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 38]</span> -<h2>STORY V<br /> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY'S HALLOWE'EN FUN</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>"Oh, dear, I wish it were night," said Susie Littletail.</p> - -<p>"So do I!" exclaimed Sammie, her brother. "Then it would be Hallowe'en."</p> - -<p>"And both of us wish the same thing," said Johnnie Bushytail, as he and -his brother Billie went skipping about the room of their house.</p> - -<p>"Oh, don't wish so hard or night might come before I'm ready for it," said -Uncle Wiggily Longears, the old gentleman rabbit. "I've got to decorate my -auto yet and get my false face, you know."</p> - -<p>"What kind are you going to have?" asked Susie.</p> - -<p>"Oh, I think I'll dress up like an elephant," said Uncle Wiggily.</p> - -<p>"But what will you do for a trunk?" asked Mrs. Bushytail, for, you see, -Uncle Wiggily and Sammie and Susie had stayed at the squirrel's house -to have some fun. This was the first place the old gentleman rabbit -came to after starting out in his auto for his health, and after some -fresh adventures. "What will you do for an elephant's trunk?" asked Mrs. -Bushytail.</p> - -<p>"I will take a long stocking and stuff it full of soft cotton so it will -look just like an elephant's face," said Uncle Wiggily. "Then I'll go out -with the children in my auto and we'll have a lot of fun."</p> - -<p>So all that day they got ready for the Hallowe'en fun they were to have -that night. Johnnie and Billie had their false faces, you remember; -Johnnie had a wolf's face and Billie a bear's, and they were too cute for -anything. But, of course, Sammie and Susie Littletail and Uncle Wiggily -had to have some false faces also, and it took quite a while for the -rabbit children to decide what they wanted.</p> - -<p>"I think I'll dress up like a wild Indian," said Sammie at last.</p> - -<p>"And I'm going to be a pussy cat," said Susie.</p> - -<p>"And if any dogs chase you, I'll growl at them, and scare them away," said -Billie, who was going to be a make-believe bear.</p> - -<p>"Yes, and I'll tickle them with my stuffed-stocking elephant's trunk," -said Uncle Wiggily. "Now, I must go out and put some oil and gasoline in -my auto, and see that the frizzle-frazzle works all right, so we can go -Hallowe'en riding to-night."</p> - -<p>Finally the animal children were all ready, and they were waiting for it -to get dark so they could go out. And, pretty soon, after supper, when the -sun had gone to bed, it did get dark. Then the four animal children and -Uncle Wiggily went out in the auto.</p> - -<p>Say, I just wish you could have seen them; really I do! and I'd show you a -picture of them, only I'm not allowed to do that. And besides it was too -dark to see pictures well, so perhaps it doesn't much matter.</p> - -<p>Oh, but they were the funny looking sights, though! Billy Bushytail acted -like a real bear, growling as hard as ever he could, though, of course, he -was polite about it, as it was only fun. And what a savage make-believe -wolf Johnnie was!</p> - -<p>And there was Susie, as cute a little pussy cat as one would meet with in -going from here to the moon and back. And as for Sammie, well, say, he -was so much like a real Indian that when he looked in the glass he was -frightened at himself; yes, really he was, and he had truly feathers on, -too; not make-believe ones, either.</p> - -<p>Uncle Wiggily was dressed up like an elephant, and he sat in the front of -the auto to steer it. Only his stuffed-stocking trunk got in the way of -the steering wheel, so Uncle Wiggily had to put it behind him, over his -left shoulder and have Susie hold it. I mean she held his stuffed-stocking -trunk, not the steering wheel, you know.</p> - -<p>"Here we go!" suddenly cried Uncle Wiggily, and his voice sounded far -away because it had to go down inside the stuffed-stocking elephant -trunk and come out again around in back of him. Then he twisted the -tinkerum-tankerum, and away they went in the automobile.</p> - -<p>All at once, from around a corner, came a big clown with red, white and -blue all over his face. He had a rattlety-bang-banger thing and he was -making a terrible racket on it.</p> - -<p>"Oh, I know who that is!" cried Susie. "You're Jimmie Wibblewobble, the -boy duck."</p> - -<p>"That's right," said the clown, making more noise than ever. -"Whoop-de-doodle-do! Isn't this fun!"</p> - -<p>Along went the auto and by this time there were a whole lot of animal -children prancing and dancing around it. Uncle Wiggily had to make the -auto go real slowly so as not to hurt any of them, for they were all over -the streets.</p> - -<p>There was Buddy Pigg, dressed up like a camel, and there was Dickie -Chip-Chip and his sister, and they were dressed up like sailors. -Brighteyes Pigg had on a cow's false face and Billie Goat was dressed up -like a Chinaman, while Nannie, his sister, was supposed to be a lady with -a sealskin coat on. Oh, I couldn't tell you how all the different animal -children were dressed, but I'll just say that Bully, the frog, with his -tall hat, was dressed like a football player and Aunt Lettie, the nice -old lady goat, made believe she was a fireman, and Munchie Trot was a -pretend-policeman.</p> - -<p>And such fun as they had! Uncle Wiggily steered the auto here and there, -and squeaked and squawked his tooter-teeter so no one would get hurt. -There were about forty-'leven tin horns being blown, and the wooden -rattlety-bang-bangs were rattling all over and some one threw a whole lot -of prettily colored paper in the air until it looked as if it were raining -red, pink, green, purple, blue, yellow and skilligimink colored snow.</p> - -<p>And then, all at once, out from the crowd, came a figure that looked like -a bear. Oh, it was very real looking with long teeth, and shaggy fur, and -that bear came right up to the auto that Uncle Wiggily was steering.</p> - -<p>"I've come to get you!" growled the bear, away down in his throat.</p> - -<p>"Oh, he's almost real!" exclaimed Susie, and she forgot that she was -holding Uncle Wiggily's stuffed-stocking trunk, and let go of it, so that -it hung down in front of him.</p> - -<p>"I am a real bear!" growled the shaggy creature.</p> - -<p>"Oh, you can't fool us," said Johnnie Bushytail, with a laugh. "You're -Jacko or Jumpo Kinkytail dressed up like a bear, just as my brother Billie -is. You can't fool us."</p> - -<p>"But I am a real bear!" growled the shaggy creature again, "and I'm hungry -so I'm going to bite Uncle Wiggily."</p> - -<p>And, would you ever believe it? he was a real bear who had come in from -the woods. He made a grab for Uncle Wiggily, but the old gentleman rabbit -leaned far back in his auto seat, and the bear only got hold of the -stuffed-stocking trunk. And then the bear pulled on that so hard that it -came all apart and the cotton stuffing came out, and got up the bear's -nose and made him sneeze.</p> - -<p>And then up came running Munchie Trot, the pony boy, who was dressed like -a policeman, and with his club Munchie tickled the bear on his ear, and -that shaggy creature was glad enough to run back to the woods, taking his -little stubby tail with him, so he didn't eat anybody.</p> - -<p>"My, it's a good thing, I didn't have on a real elephant's trunk," said -Uncle Wiggily, "or that bear would have bitten it off, for real trunks are -fastened on tight."</p> - -<p>"Yes, indeed," said Susie. So after everybody got over being scared at the -real bear they had a lot of fun and Uncle Wiggily took all the children -to a store and treated them to hot chocolate, and then he and Sammie and -Susie and Billie and Johnnie went home in the auto, and went to bed. And -Uncle Wiggily had another adventure next day.</p> - -<p>I'll tell you about it on the page after this, when, in case it doesn't -rain lightning bugs down the chimney, the story will be about Uncle -Wiggily going chestnutting.</p> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 45]</span> -<h2>STORY VI<br /> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY GOES CHESTNUTTING</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>"Where are you going this morning, Uncle Wiggily?" asked Johnnie Bushytail -of the old gentleman rabbit the day after the Hallowe'en fun.</p> - -<p>"Oh, I am going to take a ride and see if I can find any more adventures," -said Uncle Wiggily, as he went out in the barn to look and see if his auto -had any holes in the rubber tires, or if the what-you-may-call-it had -gotten twisted around the whose-this-cantankerum.</p> - -<p>"May I go with you?" asked Billie Bushytail, as he followed Uncle Wiggily. -"We don't want you to go away from our house so soon. We'd like to have -you pay us a nice, long visit."</p> - -<p>"Hum, well, I'll think about it," said Uncle Wiggily, slowly, and -careful-like. "I'll stay as long as I can. But as for you squirrel boys -going for a ride in my auto, why I guess you may come if your mamma will -let you. Yes, it's all ready for a spin," he went on, as he saw that the -tiddle-taddleum was on straight, and that the wheels had no holes in them.</p> - -<p>"Oh, goody! Come on!" cried Billie to Johnnie; so into the house they -hurried to ask their mamma, and she said they might go.</p> - -<p>A little later, with the squirrel boys sitting in the back part of the -auto, away they went, Uncle Wiggily steering here and there and taking -care not to run over any puppy-dogs' tails or over any alligators' noses.</p> - -<p>"Are you going off in the woods?" asked Johnnie, as he saw the old -gentleman rabbit steering toward the tree-forest.</p> - -<p>"I think I will," answered Uncle Wiggily. "I want to see Grandfather -Goosey Gander, and if we go through the woods that is the shortest way to -his house."</p> - -<p>"Then, perhaps, we can stop and gather some chestnuts," said Johnnie. -"There may be a few left that the other squirrels haven't yet picked up, -and I heard papa saying to mamma the other night that we need a whole lot -more than we have, so we wouldn't be hungry this winter."</p> - -<p>"Oh, yes; let's get chestnuts!" cried Billie.</p> - -<p>"All right," answered Uncle Wiggily, smiling, and then he had to turn the -auto to one side very quickly, for a fuzzy worm was hurrying along the -path, on her way to the grocery store, and Uncle Wiggily didn't want to -run over her, you know.</p> - -<p>"Thank you very much for not squashing me flat like a pancake," said the -worm, as she wiggled along.</p> - -<p>"Oh, pray do not mention such a little thing," said Uncle Wiggily, -politely. "I am always glad to do you a favor like that."</p> - -<p>Then he turned the handle so some more gasoline would squirt into the -fizzle-fozzleum, and away the automobile went faster than ever.</p> - -<p>Pretty soon they came to the woods, and Johnnie and Billie began looking -about for chestnut trees. Squirrels, you know, can tell a chestnut tree a -great way off, and soon Johnnie saw one.</p> - -<p>"Stop the auto here, Uncle Wiggily," said Johnnie, "and we'll see if there -are any chestnuts left."</p> - -<p>So the old gentleman rabbit did this, and, surely enough, there were quite -a few of the brown nuts lying on the ground, partly covered with leaves.</p> - -<p>"Take a stick and poke around and you'll find more," said Billie to his -brother, and pretty soon all three of them, including Uncle Wiggily, were -picking up the nuts. Of course, the automobile couldn't pick up any; it -just had to stand still there, looking on. I guess you know that, anyhow, -but I just thought I'd mention it to make sure.</p> - -<p>"Oh, here is another tree over there!" cried Johnnie after a while, as he -ran to a large one. "It's got heaps and heaps of chestnuts under it, too. -I guess no squirrels or any chipmunks have been here. Oh, we can get lots -of nuts to put away for winter!"</p> - -<p>So the two squirrel boys filled their pockets with nuts, and so did Uncle -Wiggily, and they even put some in the automobile, though, of course, the -auto couldn't eat them, but it could carry them away. And then, all of a -sudden, Billie cried:</p> - -<p>"Oh, I know what let's do! Let's build a little fire and roast some of the -chestnuts. They're fine roasted."</p> - -<p>"I guess they are," said Uncle Wiggily, "and so we'll cook some, though, -as for me, I'd rather have a roast carrot or a bit of baked apple."</p> - -<p>"Maybe we can find some apples to bake while we're roasting the -chestnuts," said Billie. "We'll look."</p> - -<p>They looked all around, and in a field not far from the woods they found -an apple tree and there were some apples on the ground under it. They -picked up quite a few and then they got some flat stones and made a place -to build a fire.</p> - -<p>Uncle Wiggily lighted it, for it isn't good for children to have anything -to do with matches, and soon the fire was blazing up very nicely and was -quite hot.</p> - -<p>"Now put the chestnuts down to roast on the hot stones," said the rabbit -gentleman, after a bit, to the two squirrel boys, "and I'll put some -apples on a sharp stick and hold them near the blaze to roast. Why, boys! -This is as much fun for me as a picnic!" he exclaimed joyfully.</p> - -<p>But listen! Something is going to happen. All of a sudden, as they were -sitting quietly around the fire and wishing the apples and chestnuts would -hurry up and roast, all of a sudden a man came along with a gun. He stood -by the fence that went around the field where they had picked up the -apples, and that man said, in a grillery-growlery voice:</p> - -<p>"Ah, ha! So those squirrels and that rabbit have been taking my apples, -eh? I can smell 'em! Sniff! Snoof! Snuff! Well, I'll soon put a stop to -that! I'm glad I brought my gun along!"</p> - -<p>He was just aiming his gun at poor Uncle Wiggily and also at Johnnie and -Billie Bushytail, and the rabbit and the squirrels didn't know what in -the world to do, for they were too frightened to run, when, all of a -sudden there was a tremendously loud bang-bang in the fire and something -flew out of it and hit that man right on the end of his nose.</p> - -<p>"Ouch-ouchy!" the man cried.</p> - -<p>"Bang!" went something again, and this time it flew over and hit the man -on his left ear. Now what do you think of that?</p> - -<p>"Ouch! Ouchy!" the man yelled again.</p> - -<p>"Bang!" went the noise for the third shot, and this time the man was hit -on his other ear.</p> - -<p>"Ouch! Ouchy!" he cried again. "They're shooting at me. I'd better run." -And run away he did, taking his gun with him, and so Uncle Wiggily and -Johnnie and Billie weren't hurt.</p> - -<p>"My, that was a narrow escape," said Johnnie. "What was it that made the -bang noise, and hit the man?"</p> - -<p>"It was the roast chestnuts," said Uncle Wiggily, "I forgot to tell you -to make little holes in them before you roasted them or else they would -burst. And burst they did, and I'm glad of it, for they scared that man. -But I guess we had better be going now, for he may come back."</p> - -<p>So they took the apples, which were nicely roasted now, and they took the -chestnuts that were left and which hadn't burst, and away they went in -the auto and had a fine ride, before going home to bed.</p> - -<p>And now I'll say good-night, but in case the cow who jumped over the moon -doesn't kick our milk bottles off the back stoop, I'll tell you, in the -story after this one, about Uncle Wiggily and the pumpkin.</p> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 52]</span> -<h2>STORY VII<br /> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE PUMPKIN</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>"Well," said Uncle Wiggily Longears one fine fresh morning, just after the -milkman had been around to leave some cream for the coffee, "I think I -will be traveling on again, Mrs. Bushytail."</p> - -<p>"Oh, don't go yet!" begged Billie, the boy squirrel.</p> - -<p>"No, you haven't made us a long visit at all," spoke his brother Johnnie. -"Can't you stay a long, long time?"</p> - -<p>"Well, I promised Jimmie Wibblewobble, the boy duck, that I would come -in my new automobile and pay him and his sisters a visit," said the old -gentleman, as he wiggled first his left ear and then the right one to see -if there were any pennies stuck in them. And he found two pennies, one for -Johnnie and one for Billie.</p> - -<p>"Oh, please stay with us a few more days. You can go visit the -Wibblewobble family next week," said Johnnie; "can't he, mother?" "Yes, I -really think you might stay with us a little longer," said Mrs. Bushytail, -as she was mending some holes in Johnnie's stocking. "Besides, I thought -you might do me a favor to-day, Uncle Wiggily."</p> - -<p>"A favor!" exclaimed the old gentleman rabbit, making a low bow. "I am -always anxious to do you a favor if I can. What is it, Mrs. Bushytail?"</p> - -<p>"Why, I thought you and the boys might like to go off in the automobile -and see if you could find me a nice, large yellow pumpkin," said the -squirrel lady.</p> - -<p>"Oh, goody!" cried Billie. "I know what for—to make a Jack-o'-lantern for -us, eh, mamma?"</p> - -<p>"Sure!" cried Johnnie, jumping up and down because he was so happy, "and -we'll take it out after dark, Billie, and have some fun with Bully the -frog."</p> - -<p>"Oh, no, not a pumpkin for a Jack-o'-lantern," said Mrs. Bushytail. "What -I need a pumpkin for is to make some pies, and I thought you might like to -get one, Uncle Wiggily."</p> - -<p>"Yes, indeed, I would!" exclaimed the old gentleman rabbit. "I am very -fond of hunting pumpkins for pies, and also eating them after they are -baked. I like pumpkin pie almost as much as I do cherry pie. Come on, -boys, let's get into the auto and we'll go look for a pumpkin."</p> - -<p>"But don't go near that man's field who was going to shoot us the other -day because we took a few apples," said Billie, and Uncle Wiggily said he -wouldn't. So out they went to the barn, where the auto was kept, leaving -Mrs. Bushytail in the house mending stockings and getting ready to bake -the pumpkin pies.</p> - -<p>"Here we go!" cried Uncle Wiggily, when he had tickled the -tinkerum-tankerum with a feather to make it sneeze.</p> - -<p>Away went the auto, and as it rolled along on its big fat wheels Uncle -Wiggily sang a funny little song, like this:</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i1">"Pumpkin pie is my delight,<br /></span> -<span class="i1">I eat it morning, noon and night,<br /></span> -<span class="i1">It's very good to make you grow,<br /></span> -<span class="i1">That's why the boys all love it so.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i1">"If I could have my dearest wish,<br /></span> -<span class="i1">I'd have some cherries in a dish.<br /></span> -<span class="i1">And then a pumpkin pie, or two;<br /></span> -<span class="i1">Of course, I'd save a piece for you.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i1">"Perhaps, if we are good and kind,<br /></span> -<span class="i1">A dozen pumpkins we may find,<br /></span> -<span class="i1">We'll bring them home and stew them up,<br /></span> -<span class="i1">And then on pumpkin pie we'll sup."<br /></span> -</div></div> - -<p>Well, after he had sung that song, Uncle Wiggily felt better. The auto -felt better also, I guess, for it ran along very fast, and, all of a -sudden, they came to a place where there was a field of pumpkins. Oh, such -lovely, large, golden yellow pumpkins as they were.</p> - -<p>"Hurray!" cried Johnnie.</p> - -<p>"Whoop-de-doodle-do!" cried Billie.</p> - -<p>"Dear me hum suz dud!" cried Uncle Wiggily. "It couldn't be better. But I -wonder if these pumpkins would mind if we took one?"</p> - -<p>"Not in the least! Not in the least!" suddenly cried a voice near the -fence, and looking over, Uncle Wiggily and the boys saw Grandfather Goosey -Gander, the old gentleman duck, standing there on one leg. "This is my -field of pumpkins," said Grandfather Goosey, "and you may take as many as -you like." Then he put down his other leg, which he had been holding up -under his feathers.</p> - -<p>"Thank you very much," spoke Uncle Wiggily politely.</p> - -<p>"And may we each have a pumpkin to make a Jack-o'-lantern?" asked Billie.</p> - -<p>"To be sure," answered Grandfather Goosey, so Uncle Wiggily took a very -large pumpkin for a pie, and the boy squirrels took smaller ones for their -lanterns. Then Uncle Wiggily took a few more to be sure he would have -plenty, but none was as large as the first one.</p> - -<p>"I will send you some pumpkin pies when Mrs. Bushytail bakes them," -promised the old gentleman rabbit as he got ready to travel on with the -boys in the auto.</p> - -<p>"I wish you would," said Grandfather Goosey, "as I am very fond of pumpkin -pie with watercress salad on top."</p> - -<p>On and on went the auto, and Billie and Johnnie were talking about how -they would make their Jack-o'-lanterns and have fun, when all of a sudden, -out from the bushes at the side of the road, jumped the big, bad savage -wolf.</p> - -<p>"Hold on there!" he cried to Uncle Wiggily. "Stop, I want to see you!"</p> - -<p>"You want to bite me, I guess," said the old gentleman rabbit. "No, sir! -I'm not going to stop."</p> - -<p>"Then I'll just make you!" growled the wolf, and with that what did he do -but bite a hole in one of the big rubber tires, letting out all the wind -with a puff, so the auto couldn't go any more.</p> - -<p>"Now see what you've done!" cried Johnnie. "Yes, and it was a nice, new -auto, too," said Billie sorrowfully.</p> - -<p>"Fiddlesticks!" cried the wolf. "Double fiddlesticks. Don't talk to me. -I'm hungry. Get out of that auto, now, so I can bite you."</p> - -<p>"Oh! what shall we do?" whispered Johnnie.</p> - -<p>"Hush! Don't say a word. I'm going to play a trick on that wolf," said -Uncle Wiggily. Then he spoke to the savage creature, saying: "If you are -going to eat us up, I s'pose you will; but first would you mind taking one -of these pumpkins down to the bottom of the hill and leaving it there for -Mrs. Bushtail to make a pie of?"</p> - -<p>"Oh, anything to oblige you, since I am going to eat you, anyhow," said -the wolf. "Give me the pumpkin, but mind, don't try to run away, while I'm -gone for I can catch you. I'll come back and eat you up in a minute."</p> - -<p>"All right," said Uncle Wiggily, giving the wolf a little pumpkin, and -pretending to cry, to show that he was afraid. But he was only making -believe, you see. Well, the wolf began to run down to the foot of the hill.</p> - -<p>"Now, quick, boys!" suddenly cried Uncle Wiggily. "We'll roll the biggest -pumpkin down after him, and it will hit him and make him as flat as a -pancake, and then he can't eat us! Lively, now!"</p> - -<p>So, surely enough, they took the big pumpkin out of the auto and rolled -it down after the wolf. He heard it coming and he tried to get out of -the way, but he couldn't, because he was carrying another pumpkin, and -he stumbled and fell down, and the big pumpkin rolled right over him, -including his tail, and he was as flat as two pancakes, and part of -another one, and he couldn't even eat a toothpick.</p> - -<p>Then, Uncle Wiggily and the boys fixed the hole in the tire, pumped it -full of wind, and hurried on, and they had plenty of pumpkin left for -pies, and they were soon at the squirrel's house, safe and sound, so -that's the end of the story.</p> - -<p>But on the next page, if the milk bottle doesn't roll down off the stoop -and tickle the doormat, I'll tell you about Uncle Wiggily and the pumpkin -pie.</p> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 59]</span> -<h2>STORY VIII<br /> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY'S JACK-O'-LANTERN</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>"I really think I must be traveling on to-day," said Uncle Wiggily, the -nice old gentleman rabbit, one bright morning when he had gone out to the -Bushtail barn to see if there were any slivers sticking in the rubber -tires of his automobile. "I have been here quite a while now, boys, and I -want to pay a visit to some of my other friends," he added.</p> - -<p>"Oh, please don't think of going!" begged Johnnie Bushtail, the boy -squirrel.</p> - -<p>"Please, can't you stay a little longer?" asked Billie, his brother. -"Johnnie and I are going to make Jack-o'-lanterns to-night from the -pumpkin you got us, and you may help if you like."</p> - -<p>"Oh, that will be fine," said Uncle Wiggily. "I suppose I really must stay -another night. But after that I shall have to be traveling along, for I -have many more friends to visit, and only to-day I had a letter from -Jimmie Wibblewobble, the duck boy, asking when I was coming to see him."</p> - -<p>"Well, never mind about that. Let's get to work at making Jack-o'-lanterns -now and not wait for to-night," suggested Johnnie. "We'll make three -lanterns, one for Uncle Wiggily and one for each of us."</p> - -<p>So they sat down on benches out in the back yard, where the pumpkin seeds -wouldn't do any harm, and they began to make the lanterns. And this -is how you do it. First you cut a little round hole in the top of the -pumpkin—the part where the stem is, you know. And then you scoop out the -soft inside where all the seeds are, and you can save the seeds to make -more pumpkins grow next year, if you like.</p> - -<p>Then, after you have the inside all scraped out clean, so that the shell -is quite thin, you cut out holes for the two eyes and a nose and a mouth, -and if you know how to do it you can cut make-believe teeth in the -Jack-o'-lantern's mouth. If you can't do it yourselves, perhaps some of -the big folks will help you.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 385px;"> -<img src="images/p060.jpg" width="385" height="640" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>So that's how the squirrel boys and Uncle Wiggily made their -Jack-o'-lanterns, and when they were all finished they put a lighted -candle inside and say! My goodness! It looked just like a real person -grinning at you, only, of course, it wasn't.</p> - -<p>"Won't we have fun to-night!" exclaimed Johnnie as he finished his lantern.</p> - -<p>"We certainly will!" said Billie, dancing a little jig.</p> - -<p>"What are you going to do with your lantern, Uncle Wiggily?" asked Johnnie.</p> - -<p>"Oh, I don't know," answered the old gentleman rabbit. "I may take it with -me on my travels."</p> - -<p>Well, after the three lanterns were made, there was still plenty of time -before it would be dark, so Uncle Wiggily and the boys made some more -lanterns. And along came Lulu and Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble, the duck -children, and as they had no Jack-o'-lanterns of their own, Johnnie gave -Lulu one and Billie gave Alice one, and Uncle Wiggily gave Jimmie one, -and my! you should have seen how pleased those duck children were! It was -worth going across the street just to look at their smiling faces.</p> - -<p>Well, pretty soon, after a while, not so very long, it was supper time, -and there was pumpkin pie and carrot sandwiches and lettuce salad, and -things like that for Uncle Wiggily, and nut cake and nut candy and nut -sandwiches for the squirrels.</p> - -<p>Uncle Wiggily was folding up his napkin, and he was just getting -out of his chair to go in the parlor, and read the paper with Mr. -Bushytail, when, all of a sudden, there came a knock on the front -door.</p> - -<p>"My goodness! I wonder who that can be?" exclaimed Mrs. Bushytail.</p> - -<p>"I'll go see," spoke her husband, and when he went to the door there was -kind old Mrs. Hop Toad on the mat, wiping her feet.</p> - -<p>"Oh, is Uncle Wiggily Longears here?" asked Mrs. Toad. "If he is, tell him -to come back to the rabbit house at once, for Sammie Littletail is very -sick, and they can't get him to sleep, and the nurse thinks if he heard -one of Uncle Wiggily's stories he would shut his eyes and rest."</p> - -<p>"I'll come right away," said Uncle Wiggily, for he had gone to the front -door, also, and had heard what Mrs. Hop Toad had said. "Wait until I get -on my hat and coat and I'll crank up my automobile and go see Sammie," -said the rabbit gentleman.</p> - -<p>"I won't wait," said Mrs. Toad. "I'll hop on ahead, and tell them you're -coming. Anyhow it gives me the toodle-oodles to ride in an auto."</p> - -<p>So she hopped on ahead, and Uncle Wiggily was soon ready to start off in -his car. Just as he was going, Billie Bushytail cried out:</p> - -<p>"Oh, Uncle Wiggily, take a Jack-o'-lantern with you and maybe Sammie will -like that."</p> - -<p>So the old gentleman rabbit took one of the pumpkin lanterns up on the -seat with him, and away he went. And then, all at once, as he was going -through a dark place in the woods in his auto, the wind suddenly blew out -all his lanterns—all the oil lamps on the auto I mean, and right away -after that a policeman dog cried out:</p> - -<p>"Hey, there, Mr. Longears, you can't go on in your auto without a light, -you know. It's against the law."</p> - -<p>"I know it is," said Uncle Wiggily. "I'll light the lamps at once." But -when he tried to do it he found there was no more oil in them.</p> - -<p>"Oh, what shall I do?" he cried. "I'm in a hurry to get to Sammie -Littletail, who is sick, but I can't go in the dark. Ah! I have it. The -Jack-o'-lantern! I'll light the candle in that, and keep on going. Will -that be all right, Mr. Policeman?"</p> - -<p>"Sure it will," said the policeman dog, swinging his club, and wishing he -was home in bed.</p> - -<p>So Uncle Wiggily lighted the Jack-o'-lantern and it was real bright, and -soon the old gentleman rabbit was speeding on again. And, all of a sudden -out from the bushes jumped a burglar fox.</p> - -<p>"Hold on there!" he cried to Uncle Wiggily. "I want all your money." And -just then he saw the big pumpkin Jack-o'-lantern, with its staring eyes -and big mouth and sharp teeth, looking at him from the seat of the auto, -and the fox was so scared, thinking it was a giant going to catch him, -that he ran off in the woods howling, and he didn't bother Uncle Wiggily a -bit more that night.</p> - -<p>Then the old gentleman rabbit drove his auto on toward Sammie's house, -and he was soon there and he told Sammie a funny story and gave him the -Jack-o'-lantern, and the little rabbit boy was soon asleep, and in the -morning he was all better.</p> - -<p>So that's what the Jack-o'-lantern did for Uncle Wiggily and Sammie, and -now if you please you must go to bed, and on the page after this, in case -the basket of peaches doesn't fall down the cellar stairs and break the -furnace door all to pieces, I'll tell you about Uncle Wiggily and the lazy -duck.</p> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 65]</span> -<h2>STORY IX<br /> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE LAZY DUCK</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>The day after Uncle Wiggily had scared the bad burglar fox with the -Jack-o'-lantern, the old rabbit gentleman and Lulu and Alice and Jimmie -Wibblewobble, the ducks, went for a little ride in the automobile.</p> - -<p>For it was Saturday, you see, and there was no school. So they went along -quite a distance over the hills and through the woods and fields, for -Uncle Wiggily's auto was a sort of fairy machine and could go almost -anywhere.</p> - -<p>Pretty soon they came to a little house beside the road, and in the front -yard was a nice pump, where you could get a drink of water.</p> - -<p>"I am very thirsty," said Uncle Wiggily to Jimmie. "I wonder if we could -get a drink here?"</p> - -<p>"Oh, yes," said Lulu, as she looked to see if her hair ribbon was on -straight; "a duck family lives here, and they will give you all the water -you want." </p> - -<p>Right after that, before Uncle Wiggily could get out of the -auto to pump some water, there came waddling out of the duckhouse a duck -boy, about as big as Jimmie.</p> - -<p>"How do you do?" said Uncle Wiggily, politely to this duck boy. "May we -get a drink of water here?"</p> - -<p>"Oh—um—er—oo—I—guess—so," said the duck boy slowly, and he stretched -out his wings and stretched out his legs and then he sat down on a bench -in the front yard and nearly went to sleep.</p> - -<p>"Why, I wonder what is the matter with him?" asked Uncle Wiggily. "Why -does he act so strangely, and speak so slow?"</p> - -<p>"I can tell you!" exclaimed Lulu, and she got down out of the auto and -picked up a stone. "That duck boy is lazy, that's what's the matter with -him. He never even wants to play. Why, at school he hardly ever knows his -lessons."</p> - -<p>"Oh, you surprise me!" said the old gentleman rabbit. "A lazy duck boy! I -never heard of such a thing. Pray what is his name?"</p> - -<p>"It's Fizzy-Whizzy," said Jimmie, who also knew the boy.</p> - -<p>"Why, what a strange name!" exclaimed the rabbit gentleman. "Why do they -call him that?"</p> - -<p>"Because he is so fond of fizzy-izzy soda water," said -Alice. "Oh, let's go along, Uncle Wiggily."</p> - -<p>"No," said the rabbit gentleman, slowly, "if this is a lazy duck boy he -should be cured. Laziness is worse than the measles or whooping cough, I -think. And as I am very thirsty I want a drink. Then I will think of some -plan to cure this boy duck of being lazy."</p> - -<p>So Uncle Wiggily went close up to the boy duck and called out loud, right -in his ear, so as to waken him:</p> - -<p>"Will you please get me a cup so I may get a drink of water?"</p> - -<p>"Hey? What's—that—you—said?" asked the lazy boy duck, slowly, -stretching out his wings.</p> - -<p>Uncle Wiggily told him over again, but that lazy chap just stretched his -legs this time and said:</p> - -<p>"Oh—I—am—too—tired—to—get—you—a—cup. -You—had—better—go—in—the—house—and—get—it—for—yourself," and -then he was going to sleep again.</p> - -<p>But, all of a sudden, his mother, who worked very hard at washing and -ironing, came to the door and said:</p> - -<p>"Oh, dear! If Fizzy-Wizzy hasn't gone to sleep again. Wake up at once, -Fizzy, and get me some wood for the fire! Quick."</p> - -<p>"Oh—ma—I am—too—tired," said Fizzy-Wizzy. -"I—will—do—it—to-morrow—um—ah—er—boo—soo!" and he was asleep once -more.</p> - -<p>"Oh, I never saw such a lazy boy in all my life!" exclaimed the duck boy's -mother, and she was very much ashamed of him. "I don't know what to do."</p> - -<p>"Do you want me to make him better?" asked Uncle Wiggily.</p> - -<p>"Indeed I do, but I am afraid you can't," she said.</p> - -<p>"Yes I can," said Uncle Wiggily. "I'll come back here this evening and -I'll cure him. First let me get a drink of water and then I'll think of a -way to do it." So the duck lady herself brought out a cup so Uncle Wiggily -and Lulu and Alice and Jimmie could get a drink from the pump, and all the -while the lazy chap slept on.</p> - -<p>"How are you going to cure him, Uncle Wiggily?" asked Jimmie when they -were riding along in the auto once more.</p> - -<p>"I will show you," said the old gentleman rabbit. "And you children must -help me, for to be lazy is a dreadful thing."</p> - -<p>Well, that night, after dark, Uncle Wiggily took a lantern, and some -matches and some rubber balls and some beans and something else done up -in a package, and he put all these things in his auto. Then he and the -Wibblewobble children got in and they went to the house of the lazy boy -duck.</p> - -<p>"Is he in?" asked Uncle Wiggily of the boy's mamma.</p> - -<p>"Yes," she said in a whisper.</p> - -<p>"Well, when I throw a pebble against the kitchen window tell him to come -out and see who's here," went on the rabbit gentleman. Then he opened the -package and in it were four false faces, one of a fox, one of a wolf, -one of a bear and one was of an alligator. And Uncle Wiggily put on the -alligator false face, gave the bear one to Jimmie, the fox one to Alice -and the wolf one to Lulu.</p> - -<p>Then he gave Jimmie a handful of beans and he gave Alice a rubber ball -filled with water to squirt and Lulu the same. They knew what to do with -them. Then Uncle Wiggily built a fire and made some stones quite warm, not -warm enough to burn one, but just warm enough.</p> - -<p>These stones he put in front of the lazy duck boy's house and then he -threw a pebble against the window.</p> - -<p>"Go and see who is there," said the duck boy's mamma to him.</p> - -<p>"I—don't—want—to," the lazy chap was just saying, but he suddenly -became very curious and thought he would just take a peep out. And no -sooner had he opened the door and stepped on the warm stones than he began -to run down the yard, for he was afraid if he stood still he would be -burned.</p> - -<p>And then, as he ran, up popped Uncle Wiggily from behind the bushes, -looking like an alligator with the false face on.</p> - -<p>"Oh! Oh!" cried the lazy boy and he ran faster than ever.</p> - -<p>Then up jumped Jimmie, looking like a bear with the false face on, and up -popped Lulu looking like a wolf and Alice looking like a fox.</p> - -<p>"Oh! Oh!" cried the lazy boy, and he ran faster than ever before in his -life.</p> - -<p>Then Alice and Lulu squirted water at him from their rubber balls.</p> - -<p>"Oh! It's raining! It's raining!" cried the boy duck, and he ran faster -than before.</p> - -<p>Then Jimmie threw the beans at him and they rattled all over.</p> - -<p>"Oh! It's snowing and hailing!" cried the lazy boy, and he ran faster than -ever. And then Uncle Wiggily threw some hickory nuts at him, and that -lazy duck ran still faster than he had ever run in his life before and ran -back in the house.</p> - -<p>"Oh, mother!" he cried, "I've had a terrible time," and he spoke very -fast. "I'll never be lazy again."</p> - -<p>"I'm glad of it," she said. "I guess Uncle Wiggily cured you."</p> - -<p>And so the old gentleman rabbit had, for the duck boy was always ready to -work after that. Then Lulu and Alice and Jimmie went home in the auto and -went to bed, and that's where you must go soon.</p> - -<p>And if the pussy cat doesn't slip in the molasses, and fall down the -cellar steps, I'll tell you next about Uncle Wiggily helping Jimmie.</p> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 72]</span> -<h2>STORY X<br /> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY HELPS JIMMIE</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>Old Percival, who used to be a circus dog, wasn't feeling very well. Some -bad boys had tied a tin can to his tail, and had thrown stones at him -and done other mean things. But Uncle Wiggily had come along and driven -the boys away, and Percival had come home in the automobile of the old -gentleman rabbit, and was given a nice warm place behind the kitchen -stove, where he could lie down.</p> - -<p>"But I don't feel a bit good," Percival said to Uncle Wiggily. "I don't -know whether it was the tin can the boys tied to my tail, or the leaves -they stuck on me, or the bone they put in my mouth or the molasses they -used, but I don't feel at all well."</p> - -<p>"Perhaps it is the epizootic," said Alice Wibblewobble, the duck girl, as -she untied her green hair ribbon and put on a pink one.</p> - -<p>"That may be it," said Percival, and he blinked his two eyes slow and -careful-like, so as not to get any dust in them.</p> - -<p>"Perhaps if I made you some dog-biscuit-soup it would make you feel -better," said Mrs. Wibblewobble. "I'll cook some right away."</p> - -<p>So she did that and Percival ate it, but still that night he didn't feel -much better, and the only trick he could do for the children was to stand -up on his tail, and make believe he was a soldier. But he couldn't do that -very long, and then he had to crawl back to his bed behind the stove.</p> - -<p>"Poor Percival is getting old," said Mr. Wibblewobble. "He isn't the -lively dog he used to be when he showed Peetie and Jackie Bow Wow how to -do tricks in a circus parade."</p> - -<p>"No, indeed," said Uncle Wiggily, and then the old gentleman rabbit played -blind man's bluff with Lulu and Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble until it was -time to go to bed.</p> - -<p>Well, the next day poor old Percival wasn't any better and when the duck -children started for school their mamma told them to stop on their way -home and tell Dr. Possum to come and give Percival some medicine.</p> - -<p>"We will," said Jimmie, and just then they saw Uncle Wiggily putting some -gasoline in his automobile.</p> - -<p>"Oh, dear! You're not going away, are you, -Uncle Wiggily?" asked Lulu Wibblewobble as she picked up a stone and threw -it even better than the lazy boy duck could have done.</p> - -<p>"No," said the old gentleman rabbit, "I am just going for a little ride to -see Grandfather Goosey Gander, but I will be back here when you come from -school. Don't forget about telling Dr. Possum to come and see Percival."</p> - -<p>So they said they wouldn't forget, and then the three duck children -hurried on to school so they wouldn't be late, and Uncle Wiggily tickled -the flinkum-flankum of his auto and away he went whizzing over the fields -and through the woods.</p> - -<p>Well, as it happened that day, Dr. Possum wasn't home, so all that Jimmie -and his sisters could do was to leave word for him to come and see -Percival as soon as the doctor got back.</p> - -<p>"I'll send him right away, just as soon as he comes in," said Dr. Possum's -wife. "Oh, I am so sorry for poor Percival."</p> - -<p>Well, when Lulu and Alice and Jimmie got home from school Dr. Possum -hadn't yet come to the duck house to see the sick dog, who was much worse. -And Uncle Wiggily hadn't come back from his automobile ride, either.</p> - -<p>"Oh, dear!" exclaimed Mrs. Wibblewobble. "I don't know what to do! The -doctor ought to come, and Uncle Wiggily ought to be here. Perhaps Uncle -Wiggily has met with an accident and Dr. Possum had to attend to him -first."</p> - -<p>"Oh, I hope not, mamma," said Alice.</p> - -<p>"I know what I can do," said Jimmie, the boy duck. "I can hurry back to -Dr. Possum's house to see if he has come back yet. If he has I'll tell him -to please hurry here."</p> - -<p>"I think that would be a good idea," spoke Mrs. Wibblewobble. "Go quickly, -Jimmie, and here is a molasses cookie to eat on your way. Hurry back and -bring the doctor with you if you can."</p> - -<p>So Jimmie said he would, and off he started, eating the molasses cookie -that his mamma had baked. He was thinking how good it was, and wishing it -was larger when, all at once, he stepped on a sharp stone and hurt his -foot so that he couldn't walk.</p> - -<p>"Oh, dear!" cried Jimmie. "What shall I do? I can't go get Dr. Possum for -Percival now."</p> - -<p>Well, he was in great pain, and he was just wondering how he could send -word to the doctor when, all at once, he saw a pony-horse in the field -near by.</p> - -<p>"The very thing!" exclaimed Jimmie. "That is Munchie Trot, the pony boy, -and he'll let me ride to the doctor on his back."</p> - -<p>So Jimmie took a stick to use as a cane, and he managed to get right close -up beside the pony-horse, who was eating grass.</p> - -<p>"I'll surprise him," thought Jimmie. "I'll fly up on his back before he -sees me."</p> - -<p>So with his strong wings he flew up on the pony's back and he cried out:</p> - -<p>"Surprise on you, Munchie! Please gallop and trot with me to Dr. Possum's -so he can make Percival well."</p> - -<p>And then a funny thing happened. All at once Jimmie noticed that he was on -the back of a strange pony. It wasn't Munchie Trot at all! Jimmie had made -a mistake. Think of that! And the worst of it was that when he flew so -suddenly up on the pony's back Jimmie frightened him, and the next instant -the pony jumped over the fence and began running down the road as fast as -he could.</p> - -<p>"Oh! Stop! Stop!" cried Jimmie. "I'll fall off!" The duck boy had to take -hold of the pony's mane in his yellow bill, and he had to hold on so he -wouldn't fall off. Faster and faster ran the pony, trying to get away from -what was on his back, for he hadn't seen Jimmie fly up, and he didn't -know what it was. Maybe he thought it was a burglar fox, but I'm not sure.</p> - -<p>Anyhow the pony went faster and faster, and though Jimmie cried as hard -as he could for him to stop the pony wouldn't do it. Jimmie was almost -falling off, and he thought surely he would be hurt, when, all of a -sudden, down the road, came Uncle Wiggily in his automobile. He saw what -was the matter.</p> - -<p>"Hold on, Jimmie!" cried the old gentleman rabbit. "Hold on, and I'll be -up to you in a minute. Then you can fly into my auto and be safe."</p> - -<p>Well, the pony was going fast, but the auto went faster, and it was soon -up beside the little galloping horsie.</p> - -<p>"Now jump, Jimmie!" called Uncle Wiggily, and the boy duck did so, landing -safely in the auto, and he wasn't hurt a bit.</p> - -<p>Then the pony galloped on until he looked back and saw it had only been -a duck on his back and then he was ashamed for having run away, and he -stopped and said he was sorry, so Jimmie forgave him.</p> - -<p>"Quick, we must go for Dr. Possum for Old Dog Percival," said Jimmie, and -he told Uncle Wiggily how the doctor hadn't yet come. Then Uncle Wiggily -told how he accidentally got a hole in one of his big rubber tires or he -would have been home sooner.</p> - -<p>"But it's a good thing I happened to come along to help you," he said to -Jimmie, and Jimmie thought so too. Then they went for Dr. Possum, who had -just come home, and they took him to Percival in the auto, and Dr. Possum -soon made Percival all well, and I'm glad of it. Then the doctor cured -Jimmie's sore foot, and everybody was happy, and I hope you are.</p> - -<p>And next, if the dried leaves don't blow in my window and scare the -wallpaper so that it falls off, I'll tell you about Uncle Wiggily helping -Alice.</p> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 79]</span> -<h2>STORY XI<br /> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY HELPS ALICE.</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>One day the postman bird flew down out of the sky and stopped in front of -the Wibblewobble duck house. Uncle Wiggily Longears, the old gentleman -rabbit, was out in front, cleaning some mud off his auto, for he had run -it very fast into a puddle of water the day he saved Jimmie off the pony's -back.</p> - -<p>"Does anybody named Alice Wibblewobble live here?" asked the postman bird -as he looked in his bag of letters.</p> - -<p>"Yes, Alice lives here," said Uncle Wiggily.</p> - -<p>"And does Lulu Wibblewobble?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, of course."</p> - -<p>"And Jimmie, too?"</p> - -<p>"Certainly," said the old gentleman rabbit.</p> - -<p>"Then this is the right house," said the postman bird as he blew his -whistle, like a canary, "and here is a letter for each of them."</p> - -<p>So he handed Uncle Wiggily three letters and then he flew up into the air -again, as fast as he could go, to deliver the rest of the mail.</p> - -<p>"Hum! I wonder who can be writing to Lulu and Alice and Jimmie?" -said Uncle Wiggily, as he looked at the letters. "Well, I'll take -them in the house. They look to me like party invitations; and I -wonder why I didn't get one? But I suppose the young folks don't -want an old rheumatic uncle around any more. Ah, well, I'm getting -old—getting old," and he went slowly into the house, feeling a -bit sad.</p> - -<p>"Here are some letters for you, children," he called to Lulu and Alice and -Jimmie. "The bird postman just brought them."</p> - -<p>"Oh, fine!" cried the children, and they opened them all at once with -their strong yellow bills.</p> - -<p>"Goodie!" cried Lulu as she read hers. "Jennie Chipmunk is going to have a -party, and I'm invited."</p> - -<p>"So am I," cried Alice.</p> - -<p>"And I," added Jimmie.</p> - -<p>"I thought they were party invitations," said Uncle Wiggily, sort of sad -and thoughtful-like. "When is it?"</p> - -<p>"To-night," said Lulu.</p> - -<p>"Then we must hurry and get ready," said Alice. "I must iron out some of -my hair ribbons so they will be nice and fresh."</p> - -<p>"Oh, that's just like you girls," cried Jimmie. "You have to primp and -fuss. I can be ready in no time, just by washing my face."</p> - -<p>"Oh!" cried Lulu and Alice together. "Make him put on a clean collar, -anyhow, mamma."</p> - -<p>"Yes, I'll do that," agreed Jimmie.</p> - -<p>Well, pretty soon they were all getting ready to go to the party, and -Uncle Wiggily went back to finish cleaning his auto and he was wishing he -could go. But you just wait and see what happens.</p> - -<p>Pretty soon it became night and then it was time for the party. Lulu and -Jimmie were all ready, but it took Alice such a long time to get her hair -fixed the way she wanted it, and to get just the kind of hair ribbon that -suited her, that she wasn't ready. You see, she had so many kinds of hair -ribbons and she kept them all in a box, and really she didn't know just -which one to take. First she picked out a red one, and she didn't like -that, and then she picked out a blue one, and she didn't like that, and -then she picked up a pink one, and then a green, and then a brown, and -finally a skilligimink colored one, but none suited her.</p> - -<p>"Hurry, Alice," called Lulu, "or you'll be late."</p> - -<p>"Oh, you can go on ahead and I'll catch up to you and Jimmie," said Alice, -trying another hair ribbon.</p> - -<p>"All right," they answered, and they started off. Mr. and Mrs. -Wibblewobble had gone across the street to pay a little visit to Mr. and -Mrs. Duckling, and so Uncle Wiggily and Alice were all alone in the -house.</p> - -<p>"You had better hurry, Alice," said the old gentleman rabbit as he was -reading the evening paper.</p> - -<p>"Oh, I don't know what to do!" she cried. "I can't decide which hair -ribbon to wear."</p> - -<p>"Wear them all," called Uncle Wiggily with a laugh, but, of course, Alice -couldn't do that, and she was in despair, which means that she didn't know -what to do.</p> - -<p>She laid all the ribbons back in the box, and she was just going to shut -her eyes, and pick out the first one she could reach, and wear that -whether she liked it or not, for she didn't want to be late to the party. -And then, all of a sudden, in through the open window of her room the old -skillery-scalery alligator put his long nose and he cried:</p> - -<p>"Hair ribbons! I must have hair ribbons! Give me hair ribbons!"</p> - -<p>And then what do you think he did? Why, he grabbed up the whole -box full of Alice's lovely hair ribbons, and before she could say -"scootum-scattum," if she had wanted to, that skillery-scalery alligator -ran away with them in his mouth, taking his double-jointed tail with him.</p> - -<p>"Oh!" cried Alice. "Oh! Oh!" and she almost lost her breath, she was so -surprised.</p> - -<p>"What is it?" cried Uncle Wiggily, running up to her room.</p> - -<p>"The alligator! He has taken my hair ribbons. Quick, run after him, dear -Uncle Wiggily!"</p> - -<p>"I will!" exclaimed the brave old gentleman rabbit and out of the house he -hurried, but the 'gator with the double-jointed tail had completely gone, -and the rabbit gentleman couldn't catch him.</p> - -<p>"Oh, what ever shall I do?" cried Alice, when Uncle Wiggily came back. "I -have no hair ribbon, and I can't go to the party!"</p> - -<p>Well, Uncle Wiggily thought for a moment. He didn't tell Alice that she -should have hurried more and worn a pink ribbon, and then the accident -wouldn't have happened. No, he didn't say anything like that; but he said:</p> - -<p>"I can help you, Alice. Down in the yard is some long grass, green, with -white stripes in it. They call it ribbon grass. I will get some for a hair -ribbon for you."</p> - -<p>"Oh, thank you, so much!" said Alice. So Uncle Wiggily quickly went down, -pulled some of the ribbon grass and helped Alice tie it in her feathers. -And she looked too cute for anything, really she did.</p> - -<p>"Now, quick, run and catch up to Jimmie and Lulu, and go to the party -and have a good time," said Uncle Wiggily, and Alice did. And what do -you think? A little while after that up to the duck-house drove Sammie -Littletail in a pony cart.</p> - -<p>"Oh, Uncle Wiggily!" cried Sammie, "Jennie Chipmunk was so flustrated -about her party that she forgot to send you an invitation. But she wants -you very much, so I've come to take you to it. Come along with me!"</p> - -<p>Then Uncle Wiggily was very glad, for he liked parties as much as you do, -and he jumped into the cart with Sammie and they went to the party and had -a lovely time. And the next day Uncle Wiggily went out in his auto, and he -made the alligator give back all of Alice's hair ribbons, and none of them -was lost or soiled the least bit, I'm glad to say.</p> - -<p>Now, no more at present, if you please, but if the picture book doesn't -read about the sandman and go to sleep on the front porch, I'll tell you -next about Uncle Wiggily and the doll doctor.</p> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 85]</span> -<h2>STORY XII<br /> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE DOLL DOCTOR</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>"Now, I wonder where I will go to-day?" said Uncle Wiggily, the old -gentleman rabbit to himself, as he went along, in his automobile, turning -around the corner by an old black stump-house, where lived a nice owl -school teacher lady. "I wonder where I had better go? I have it! I'll call -on Grandfather Goosey Gander and play a game of Scotch checkers!" and off -he went.</p> - -<p>It was generally that way with Uncle Wiggily. He would start off -pretending he had no place in particular to go, but he would generally end -up at Grandpa Goosey's house.</p> - -<p>There the old rabbit gentleman and the old duck gentleman would sit and -play Scotch checkers and eat molasses cookies with cabbage seeds on top, -and they would talk of the days when they were young, and could play ball -and go skating, and do all of those things.</p> - -<p>But this time Uncle Wiggily never got to Grandfather Goosey's house. As -he was going along in the woods, all of a sudden he came to a little house -that stood under a Christmas tree, and on this house was a sign reading:</p> - -<p class="center">DR. MONKEY DOODLE. SICK DOLLS MADE WELL.</p> - -<p>"Ha! That is rather strange!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily. "I never knew there -was a doll doctor here. He must have moved in only lately. I must look -into this!"</p> - -<p>So the rabbit gentleman went up to the little house, and, as he came -nearer he heard some one inside exclaiming:</p> - -<p>"Oh, I'll never get through to-day, I know I won't! Oh, the trouble I'm -in! Oh, if I only had some one to help me!"</p> - -<p>"My! What is that!" cried Uncle Wiggily, stopping short. "Perhaps I am -making a mistake. That may be a trap! No, it doesn't look like a trap," he -went on, as he peered all about the little house and saw nothing dangerous.</p> - -<p>Then the voice cried again:</p> - -<p>"Oh, I am in such trouble! Will no one help me?"</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 387px;"> -<img src="images/p086.jpg" width="387" height="640" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>Now Uncle Wiggily was always on the lookout to help his animal friends, -but he did not know who this one could be.</p> - -<p>"Still," said the rabbit gentleman to himself, "he is in trouble. -Maybe a mosquito has bitten him. I'm going to see."</p> - -<p>So Uncle Wiggily marched bravely up to the little house under the -Christmas tree, and knocked on the door.</p> - -<p>"Come in!" cried a voice. "But if you're a little animal girl, with a sick -doll, or one that needs mending, you might as well go away and come back -again. I'm head-over heels in work, and I'll never get through. In fact I -can't work at all. Oh, such trouble as I am in!"</p> - -<p>"Well, maybe I can help you," said Uncle Wiggily. "At any rate I have no -doll that needs mending."</p> - -<p>So into the little house he went, and what a queer sight he saw! There was -Dr. Monkey Doodle, sitting on the floor of his shop, and scattered all -about him were dolls—dolls—dolls!</p> - -<p>All sorts of dolls—but not a good, whole, well doll in the lot. Some -dolls had lost their wigs, some had swallowed their eyes, others had lost -a leg, or both arms, or a foot.</p> - -<p>One poor doll had lost all her sawdust, and she was as flat as a pancake. -Another had dropped one of her shoe button eyes, and a new eye needed -to be sewed in. One doll had stiff joints, which needed oiling, while -another, who used to talk in a little phonograph voice, had caught such a -cold that she could not speak or even whisper.</p> - -<p>"My, what sort of a place is this?" asked Uncle Wiggily, in surprise.</p> - -<p>"It is the doll hospital," said Dr. Monkey Doodle. "Think of it! All these -dolls to fix before night, and I can't touch a one of them!"</p> - -<p>"Why must all the dolls be fixed to-night?" the rabbit gentleman wanted to -know.</p> - -<p>"Because they are going to a party," explained Dr. Monkey Doodle. "Susie -Littletail, the rabbit is giving a party for all the little animal girls, -and every one is going to bring her doll. But all the dolls were ill, or -else were broken, and the animal children brought them all to me at once, -so that I am fairly overwhelmed with work, if you will kindly permit me to -say so," remarked the monkey doctor.</p> - -<p>"Of course, I'll let you say so," said Uncle Wiggily. "But, if you will -kindly pardon me, why don't you get up and work, instead of sitting in the -middle of the floor, feeling sorry for yourself?"</p> - -<p>"True! Why do I not?" asked the monkey doctor. "Well, to be perfectly -plain, I am stuck here so fast that I can't move. One of the dolls, I -think it was Cora Ann Multiplicationtable, upset the pot of glue on the -floor. I came in hurriedly, and, not seeing the puddle of glue, I slipped -in it. I fell down, I sat right in the glue, and now I am stuck so fast -that I can't get up.</p> - -<p>"So you see that's why I can't work on the broken dolls. I can't move! And -oh, what a time there'll be when all those animal girls come for their -dolls and find they're not done. Oh, what a time I'll have!"</p> - -<p>And the monkey doctor tried to pull himself up from the glue on the floor, -but he could not—he was stuck fast.</p> - -<p>"Oh, dear!" he cried.</p> - -<p>"Now don't worry!" spoke Uncle Wiggily kindly. "I think I can help you."</p> - -<p>"Oh, can you!" cried Dr. Monkey Doodle. "And will you?"</p> - -<p>"I certainly will," said Uncle Wiggily, tying his ears in a bowknot so -they would not get tangled in the glue.</p> - -<p>"But how can you help me?" asked the monkey doctor.</p> - -<p>"In the first place," went on the rabbit gentleman. "I will pour some warm -water all around you on the glue. That will soften it, and by-and-by you -can get up. And while we are waiting for that you shall tell me how to -cure the sick dolls and how to mend the broken ones and I'll do the best I -can."</p> - -<p>"Fine!" cried Dr. Monkey Doodle, feeling happier now.</p> - -<p>So Uncle Wiggily poured some warm water on the glue that held the poor -monkey fast, taking care not to have the water too hot. Then Uncle Wiggily -said:</p> - -<p>"Now, we'll begin on the sick dolls. Who's first?"</p> - -<p>"Take Sallie Jane Ticklefeather," said the monkey. "She needs some -mucilage pills to keep her hair from sticking up so straight. She belongs -to a little girl named Rosalind."</p> - -<p>So Uncle Wiggily gave Sallie Jane Ticklefeather some mucilage pills. Then -he gave another doll some sawdust tea and a third one some shoe-button -pudding—this was the doll who only had one eye—and soon she was all -cured and had two eyes.</p> - -<p>And then such a busy time as Uncle Wiggily had! He hopped about that -little hospital, sewing arms and legs and feet on the dolls that had lost -theirs. He oiled up all the stiff joints with olive oil, and one doll, -whose eyes had fallen back in her head, Uncle Wiggily fixed as nicely as -you please. Only by mistake he got in one brown eye and one blue one, but -that didn't matter much. In fact, it made the doll all the more stylish.</p> - -<p>"Oh, but there are a lot more dolls to fix!" cried the monkey doctor.</p> - -<p>"Never mind," said Uncle Wiggily. "You will soon be loose from the glue, -and you can help me!"</p> - -<p>"Oh, I wish I were loose now!" cried the monkey.</p> - -<p>He gave himself a tremendous tug and a pull, Uncle Wiggily helping him, -and up he came. Then how he flew about that hospital, fixing the dolls -ready for the party.</p> - -<p>"Hark!" suddenly called Uncle Wiggily.</p> - -<p>"It's the girl animals coming for their dolls," said the monkey. "Oh, work -fast! Work fast!"</p> - -<p>Outside the doll hospital Susie Littletail, the rabbit girl, and Alice and -Lulu Wibblewobble, the duck girls, and all their friends were calling:</p> - -<p>"Are our dolls mended? Are they ready for us?"</p> - -<p>"Not yet, but soon," answered Uncle Wiggily, and then he and the monkey -worked so fast! Dolls that had lost their heads had new ones put on. The -doll that had spilled all her sawdust was filled up again, plump and -fat. One boy soldier doll, who had lost his gun was given a new one, and -a sword also. And the phonograph doll was fixed so that she could sing -as well as talk. </p> - -<p>"But it is almost time for the party!" cried Susie Littletail.</p> - -<p>"Just a minute!" called Uncle Wiggily.</p> - -<p>"There is one more doll to fix." Then he quickly painted some red cheeks -on a poor little pale doll, who had had the measles, and in a moment she -was as bright and rosy again as a red apple. Then all the dolls were -fixed, and the girl animals took them to a party and had a fine time.</p> - -<p>"Hurray for Uncle Wiggily!" cried Susie Littletail, and all the others -said the same thing.</p> - -<p>"He certainly was kind to me," spoke Dr. Monkey Doodle, as he cleaned the -glue up off the floor. And that's all there is to this story, but in the -next one, if the goldfish doesn't bite a hole in his globe and let all the -molasses run over the tablecloth, I'll tell you about Uncle Wiggily and -the flowers.</p> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 93]</span> -<h2>STORY XIII<br /> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE FLOWERS</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>One Saturday, when there was no school, Charley Chick was playing soldier -in the chicken coop, and beating the drum that Uncle Wiggily had given -him, for Christmas.</p> - -<p>And Arabella, who was Charley's sister, was playing with her talking doll. -The little chicken girl was teaching the doll to recite that piece about -"Once a trap was baited, with a piece of cheese." But the doll couldn't -seem to get the verses right. She would say it something like this:</p> - -<div class="poem"> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i1">"Once a trap was baited,<br /></span> -<span class="i3">With a twinkling star.<br /></span> -<span class="i1">'Twas Christmas eve and Santa Claus<br /></span> -<span class="i3">Was coming from afar.<br /></span> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i1">"A little drop of water,<br /></span> -<span class="i3">Was in Jack Horner's pie<br /></span> -<span class="i1">When Mary lost her little lamb<br /></span> -<span class="i3">Old Mother Goose did cry."<br /></span> -</div></div> - -<p>"Oh, you'll never get that right!" exclaimed Arabella. "Uncle Wiggily, -can't you make my talking doll learn to speak pieces right? She gets them -all mixed up."</p> - -<p>"I'll try," said the old gentleman rabbit, and he was just telling the -doll how to recite a poem about little monkey-jack upon a stick of candy, -and every time he took a bite it tasted fine and dandy. Well, the doll had -learned one verse, when, all at once, there came a knock on the door, and -there stood a telegraph messenger boy, with a telegram for Uncle Wiggily.</p> - -<p>"Oh, something has happened!" exclaimed Mrs. Chick. "I am so nervous -whenever telegrams come."</p> - -<p>"Wait until I read it," said the old gentleman rabbit, and when he had -read it he said: "It is from Aunt Lettie, the old lady goat. She has the -epizootic very badly, from having eaten some bill-board pictures of a -snowstorm, which made her catch cold, and she wants to know if I can't -come over to see her, and tell Dr. Possum to bring her some medicine. Of -course I will. I'll start off at once."</p> - -<p>So Uncle Wiggily started off, in his automobile, and on his way to see the -old lady goat he stopped at the doctor's house, and Dr. Possum promised -to come as soon as he could, and cure the old lady goat.</p> - -<p>"Then I'll go on ahead," spoke Uncle Wiggily, "and tell her you are -coming." So he hurried on, with his long ears flapping to and fro, and he -hadn't gone very far before he came to a shop where a man had flowers to -sell—roses and violets and pinks and all lovely blossoms like that.</p> - -<p>"The very thing!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily, as he saw the pretty posies. -"Sick persons like flowers, and I'll take some to Aunt Lettie. They may -cheer her up." So he bought a large and kept on toward the old lady goat's -house.</p> - -<p>Well, he hadn't gone very far before, all at once, as he was going around -the corner by the prickly briar bush, that had berries on it in the summer -time, all at once, I say, out jumped a big black bear.</p> - -<p>At first Uncle Wiggily thought it was a good bear, and he stopped the auto -to shake paws with him. But, all at once, he saw that it was a bad bear, -whom he had never seen before.</p> - -<p>"Oh, my!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily, surprised-like. "I—I guess I have made -a mistake. I don't know you. I beg your pardon."</p> - -<p>"You don't need to do that," growled the bear. "You'll soon know me well -enough. You and I are going to be very well acquainted soon. You come -with me," and with that he grabbed hold of the old gentleman rabbit and -marched off with him, pulling him right out of the auto.</p> - -<p>"Where are you taking me?" asked Uncle Wiggily, trying to be brave, and -not shiver or shake.</p> - -<p>"To my den," answered the bear in a grillery-growlery voice. "I haven't -had my Christmas or New Year's dinner yet, and here it is the middle of -January. Bur-r-r-r-r-r-r! Wow!"</p> - -<p>"Oh, what a savage bear," exclaimed Uncle Wiggily. "What makes you so -cross?"</p> - -<p>"Just look at my feet and you'll see why," answered the bear, and Uncle -Wiggily looked, and as true as I'm telling you, there were a whole lot -of walnut shells fast on the bear's feet. "That's enough to make any one -cross," said the bear. "I stepped in these shells that some one threw out -of their window after Christmas, and they stuck on so tight that I can't -get them off. Talk about corns! These are worse than any corns. I have to -walk on my tiptoes all the while, and I'm so cross that I could eat a hot -cross bun and never know it. Bur-r-r-r-r! Wow! Woof!"</p> - -<p>"Oh, my!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily. "Then I guess it's all up with me," and -he felt quite sad-like.</p> - -<p>"You may well say that!" growled the bear. "Come along!" and he almost -pulled Uncle Wiggily head over paws. "What have you in that paper?" asked -the bear, as he saw the bag of flowers in Uncle Wiggily's paw.</p> - -<p>"Some blossoms for poor sick Aunt Lettie!" answered the rabbit gentleman. -"Poor, sick Aunt Lettie——"</p> - -<p>"Bur-r-r-r-r-r! Wow! Woof! Bah! Don't talk to me about sick goats!" -growled the bear. "I'm sicker than any goat of these walnut shells on my -feet. Bur-r-r-r-r! Wow! Woof!"</p> - -<p>And then Uncle Wiggily thought of something. Gently opening the paper he -took out one nice, big, sweet-smelling rose and handed it to the bear, -saying nothing.</p> - -<p>"Bur-r-r-r-r! Wow! What's this?" growled the bear, and before he knew what -he was doing he had taken the rose in his big paws. And then, before he -knew, the next thing, he was smelling of it.</p> - -<p>And, as he smelled the sweet perfume, he seemed to think he was in the -summer fields, all covered with flowers, and as he looked at the rose it -seemed to remind him of the time when he was a little bear, and wasn't -bad, and didn't say such things as "Bur-r-r-r-r!" "Wow!" And then once -more he smelled of the perfume in the flower, and he seemed to forget the -pain of the walnut shells on his feet.</p> - -<p>"Oh, Uncle Wiggily!" exclaimed the bear, and tears came into his -blinkery-inkery eyes, and rolled down his black nose. "I'm sorry I was bad -to you. This flower is so lovely that it makes me want to be good. Run -along, now, before I change my mind and get bad again."</p> - -<p>"First let me help you take those walnut shells off your paws," said -the rabbit gentleman, and he did so, prying them off with a stick, and -then the bear felt ever so much better and he hurried to his den, still -smelling the beautiful rose. So you see flowers are sometimes good, even -for bears.</p> - -<p>Then Uncle Wiggily hurried on to Aunt Lettie's house with the rest of -the bouquet, and when she saw it she was quite some better, and when Dr. -Possum gave her some medicine she was all better, and she thought Uncle -Wiggily was very brave to do as he had done to the bear.</p> - -<p>And on the next page, in case the eggbeater doesn't hit the rolling pin -and make the potato masher fall down in the ice cream cone, I'll tell you -about Uncle Wiggily and Susie's doll.</p> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 99]</span> -<h2>STORY XIV<br /> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY AND SUSIE'S DOLL</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>"Well, I see you are going out for another ride in your auto," remarked -Mrs. Bow Wow, the puppy dog lady, to Uncle Wiggily, one morning, after -Peetie and Jackie had gone to school. "Where are you bound for now?"</p> - -<p>"Oh, no place in particular," he said. "I just thought I would take a ride -for my health."</p> - -<p>You see the rabbit gentleman had come to pay the dog family a visit.</p> - -<p>"I should think you'd stay in when it snows," went on the doggie lady. -"You seem always to be out in a snowstorm," for it was snowing quite hard -just then.</p> - -<p>"I love the snow," said the old gentleman rabbit. "I like cold weather, -for then my thick fur coat keeps me much warmer than in the summer time. -And I like the snow—I like to see it come down, and feel it blow in my -face and make my auto go through the drifts."</p> - -<p>"Well, be careful you don't get stuck in any drifts and freeze fast," -said Mrs. Bow Wow, as she began washing the breakfast dishes.</p> - -<p>"I'll try not to," promised Uncle Wiggily, and then he put some oil on his -auto, and gave it a drink of warm water (for autos get thirsty sometimes), -and away the old gentleman rabbit rode through the snowstorm.</p> - -<p>"I guess I'll go call on Aunt Lettie, the old lady goat, to-day," he -thought as he went through a big snowdrift, scattering the snow on both -sides like an electric-car snow plow. "I haven't seen Aunt Lettie in -some time, and she may be ill again." For this was some time after Uncle -Wiggily had brought her the flowers.</p> - -<p>Well, pretty soon he was at the old lady goat's house, and, surely enough -she had been ill again. She had eaten some red paper, off the outside of a -tomato can, one day right after Christmas, and the paper didn't have the -right kind of stickumpaste on it, so Aunt Lettie was taken ill on that -account.</p> - -<p>"But I'm much better now," she said to Uncle Wiggily, "and I'm real glad -you called. Come in and I'll give you a hot cup of old newspaper tea."</p> - -<p>"Um, I don't know as I care for that," said the old gentleman rabbit, -making his nose twinkle like a star on a frosty night.</p> - -<p>"Oh, I'm surprised to hear you say that," spoke Aunt Lettie, -sorrowful-like. "Newspaper tea is very good, especially with -cream-stickum-mucilage in it. But never mind, I'll give you some carrot -tea," and she did, and she and Uncle Wiggily sat and talked about old -times, and the fun Nannie and Billie Goat used to have, until it was -time for the old gentleman rabbit to go back home.</p> - -<p>School was out as he went along in his auto. He could tell that because -he met so many of the animal children. And he gave Peetie and Jackie Bow -Wow and Johnnie and Billie Bushtail a ride toward home. But before they -got there, all of a sudden, as the four animal children were in the auto, -and Uncle Wiggily was making it go through a snowdrift, all of a sudden, I -say the old gentleman rabbit turned around a corner, and there was Susie -Littletail, the little rabbit girl, standing in front of a big heap of -snow.</p> - -<p>And she was crying very hard, her tears falling down, and making little -holes in the snow, and she was poking into the drift with a long stick.</p> - -<p>"Why, Susie!" asked Uncle Wiggily, "whatever is the matter?"</p> - -<p>"Oh, my doll! My lovely, big, new Christmas doll!" cried Susie. "I had her -to school with me, for we are learning to sew in our class, and I was -making my dollie a new dress, and—and—" and then poor Susie cried so -hard that she couldn't talk.</p> - -<p>"Don't tell me some one took your doll away from you!" exclaimed Uncle -Wiggily.</p> - -<p>"If they did I'll go after them and get it back for you!" cried Jackie Bow -Wow.</p> - -<p>"So will I!" said Peetie and Billie and Johnnie.</p> - -<p>"No, it isn't that," spoke the little rabbit girl. "But as I was walking -along, with my dollie in my arms, all of a sudden she slipped out, fell -into this big snowbank, and I can't find her! She's all covered up. Boo -hoo! Hoo boo!"</p> - -<p>"Oh, don't take on so," said Uncle Wiggily kindly. "We will all help you -hunt for your dollie; won't we, boys?"</p> - -<p>"Sure!" cried Peetie and Jackie and Billie and Johnnie.</p> - -<p>So they all got sticks and poked in the snow bank, Uncle Wiggily poking -harder than anybody, but it was of no use. They couldn't seem to find that -lost doll.</p> - -<p>"She must be very deep under the snow!" said Uncle Wiggily.</p> - -<p>"Oh, I'll never see her again!" cried Susie. "My big, beautiful Christmas -doll. Boo-hoo! Hoo-boo!"</p> - -<p>"You can get her when the snow melts," spoke Peetie Bow Wow, as he scratched -away at the drift with his paws.</p> - -<p>"Yes, but then the wax will be all melted off her face, and she won't look -like anything," murmured Susie, sad-like.</p> - -<p>"Wait; I have a plan," said Uncle Wiggily. "There is a fan, like an -electric one, in the front part of my auto to keep the water cool. I'll -make that fan blow the snow away and we'll get your doll."</p> - -<p>So he tried that, making the fan whizz around like a boy's top, but, -though it blew some snow away, the doll couldn't be found.</p> - -<p>"Oh, I'll never see my big, beautiful doll again!" cried Susie.</p> - -<p>"Oh, whatever is the matter?" asked a voice, and, turning around, they -all saw the big, black, woolly bear standing there. At first the animal -children were frightened until Uncle Wiggily said:</p> - -<p>"Oh, that bear won't hurt us. I once helped him get some walnut shells off -his paws, so he is a friend of mine."</p> - -<p>"Of course I am," said the bear. "What is the trouble?" Then they told him -about Susie's doll being under the drift, and the bear went on: "Don't -worry about that. My paws are just made for digging in the snow. I'll -have that doll for you in a jiffy, which is very quick." So with his paws -he began digging in the snow.</p> - -<p>My! how he did make the snow fly, and he blew it away with his strong -breath. Faster and faster flew the snow, and in about a minute it was -all scraped away, and there was Susie's doll safe and sound. And she was -sleeping with her eyes shut.</p> - -<p>"Oh, you darling!" Susie cried, clasping the doll in her arms.</p> - -<p>"Did you mean me?" asked the bear, laughing.</p> - -<p>"Yes, I guess I did!" said Susie, also laughing, and she gave the bear a -nice little kiss on the end of his black nose.</p> - -<p>Then everybody was happy and the bear went back to his den and Uncle -Wiggily took the children and the doll home, and that's all I can tell you -now, if you please.</p> - -<p>But, if the rocking horse doesn't run away and upset the milk pitcher down -in the salt cellar and scare the furnace so that it goes out, I'll tell -you in the story after this one, about Uncle Wiggily on roller skates.</p> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 105]</span> -<h2>STORY XV<br /> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY ON ROLLER SKATES</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>"Well, where are you going this morning?" asked Jimmie Wibblewobble, the -duck boy, as he looked out of the front door of his house, and saw Uncle -Wiggily, the old gentleman rabbit, putting some gasoline in his automobile.</p> - -<p>"Oh, I am going to take a little ride out in the country," said Uncle -Wiggily. "I am going to see if I can find an adventure. Nothing has -happened since we found Susie's doll. I must have excitement. It keeps me -from thinking about my rheumatism. So I am going to look for an adventure, -Jimmie."</p> - -<p>"I wish I could come," said the little duck boy.</p> - -<p>"I wish you could too," said his uncle. "But you must go to school. Some -Saturday I'll take you with me, and we may find an adventure for each of -us."</p> - -<p>"And for us girls, too?" asked Lulu and Alice as they came out, all ready -to go to school. Alice had just finished tying her sky-yellow-green hair -ribbon into two lovely bow knots.</p> - -<p>"Yes, for you duck girls, too," said Uncle Wiggily. "But I will be back -here when you come from school, and if anything happens to me I'll tell -you all about it."</p> - -<p>So he kept on putting gasoline in his automobile until he had the -tinkerum-tankerum full, and then he tickled the hickory-dickory-dock -with a mucilage brush, and he was all ready to start off and look for an -adventure.</p> - -<p>So Lulu and Alice and Jimmie went on to school, and Uncle Wiggily rode -along over the fields and through the woods and up hill and down hill.</p> - -<p>Pretty soon, as he was riding along, he heard a funny little noise in the -bushes. It was a sad, little, squeaking sort of noise and at first the old -gentleman rabbit thought it was made by something on his automobile that -needed oiling. Then he looked over the side and there, sitting under an -old cabbage leaf, was a little mousie girl, and it was she who was crying.</p> - -<p>"Oh, ho!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily, "is that you, Squeaky-eaky?" for he -thought it might be the little cousin-mouse who lived with Jollie and -Jillie Longtail, as I have told you in other stories.</p> - -<p>"No, I am not Squeaky-eaky," said the little mouse girl, "but I am -cold and hungry and I don't know what to do or where to go. Oh, dear! -Boo-hoo!"</p> - -<p>"Never mind," said Uncle Wiggily kindly. "I will take you in my auto, and -I'll bring you to the house where the Longtail children live, and they'll -take care of you."</p> - -<p>"Oh, goody!" cried the little girl mouse. "Thank you so much. Now I am -happy." So Uncle Wiggily took her in the nice, warm automobile.</p> - -<p>Then he twisted the noodleum-noddleum until it sneezed, and away the auto -went through the woods again. And, all of a sudden, just as Uncle Wiggily -came to a big black stump, out jumped the burglar bear with roller skates -on his paws.</p> - -<p>"Hold on there!" the bear cried to the old gentleman rabbit, and he poked -a stick in the auto wheels, so they couldn't go around any more. "Hold on, -if you please, Mr. Rabbit. I want you."</p> - -<p>"What for?" asked Uncle Wiggily.</p> - -<p>"I want you to come to supper," said the burglar bear.</p> - -<p>"Your supper or my supper?" asked Uncle Wiggily, politely.</p> - -<p>"My supper, of course," said the burglar bear. "I am going to have rabbit -pot-pie to-night, and you are going to be both the rabbit and the pie. -Come, now, get out of that auto. I want to ride in it before I bite you."</p> - -<p>Well, of course, Uncle Wiggily felt pretty badly, but there was no help -for it. He had to get out, and then the burglar bear, taking off his -roller skates, got up into the automobile.</p> - -<p>"Oh, what nice soft cushions!" exclaimed the bear as he sank down on them. -Then he took hold of the turnip steering wheel in his claws and twisted -it. "I shall have lots of fun riding in this auto, after I gobble you up," -said the bear, looking at the rabbit with his blinky eyes. "I must learn -to run it. I think I'll take a little ride before I have my supper. But -don't you dare run away, for I can catch you."</p> - -<p>Then, to make sure Uncle Wiggily couldn't get away, the bear took the old -rabbit gentleman's crutch away from him and Uncle Wiggily's rheumatism was -so severe, which means painful, that he couldn't walk a step without his -crutch. So there was no use for him to try to run away.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 379px;"> -<img src="images/p108.jpg" width="379" height="640" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>Well, the bear knew how to run the auto, it seems, and he started to take -a little ride in it. Uncle Wiggily felt pretty sad because he was going -to be gobbled up and lose his auto at the same time.</p> - -<p>All at once, when the bear in the auto was some distance off in the woods, -Uncle Wiggily heard a little voice speaking to him.</p> - -<p>"Hey, Uncle Wiggily," the voice said, "I know how you can get the best of -that bear!"</p> - -<p>"How?" asked Uncle Wiggily, eagerly.</p> - -<p>"Here are his roller skates," said the voice, and it was the little mousie -girl who was speaking. She had quietly jumped out of the auto. "Put on his -roller skates," said the mousie, "and skate down the hill until you see a -policeman dog. Then tell the policeman dog to come and arrest the bear. -He'll do it, and then you'll get your auto back. You can go on roller -skates even if you have rheumatism, can't you?"</p> - -<p>"I guess so," said the rabbit. "I'll try." So he put on the skates while -the burglar bear was making the auto go around in a circle in the woods, -and that bear was having a good time. All at once Uncle Wiggily skated -away. First he went slowly, and then he went faster and faster until he -was just whizzing along. And then, at the foot of the hill, he found the -policeman dog.</p> - -<p>"Oh, please come and arrest the burglar bear for me?" begged Uncle -Wiggily. </p> - -<p>"To be sure I will," said the policeman dog. So he put on his -roller skates, and skated back with Uncle Wiggily to where the bear was -still in the auto. The policeman dog hid behind a stump. The bear stopped -the auto in front of Uncle Wiggily and got out.</p> - -<p>"Well," said the burglar bear, smacking his lips, "I guess it's supper -time now. I'm going to eat you. Come on and be my pot-pie!" And he made a -grab for the old gentleman rabbit.</p> - -<p>"Oh, you will; will you?" suddenly cried the policeman dog, drawing his -club, and jumping from behind the stump. "Well, I guess you won't eat my -good friend, Uncle Wiggily. I guess not!" and with that the policeman -dog tickled the bear so on his nose that he sneezed, and ran off through -the woods taking his stubby little tail with him, but leaving behind his -roller skates.</p> - -<p>"Oh, I'm ever so much obliged to you, Policeman Dog," said the old -gentleman rabbit, as he took off the bear's skates. "You saved my life. -I'll take these skates home to Jimmie. They will fit him when he grows -bigger."</p> - -<p>"That is a good idea," said the dog, "and if I ever catch that bear again -I will put him in the beehive jail and make him crack hickory nuts with -his teeth." - -Then Uncle Wiggily went home, and took the little mousie girl -with him, and he told the duck children about his adventure with the bear, -just as I have told you. So now it's bedtime, if you please, and I can't -tell you any more.</p> - -<p>But if the man who cleans our yard doesn't take my overcoat for an ash can -and put the dried leaves in it, I'll tell you next about Uncle Wiggily and -the clothes wringer.</p> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 112]</span> -<h2>STORY XVI<br /> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE CLOTHES WRINGER</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>One day Jackie and Peetie Bow Wow, the little puppy dog boys, came running -over to Uncle Wiggily's hollow stump-house. It was after school, from -which they had just come, and they rushed up the front steps, barking like -anything, and calling out:</p> - -<p>"Where's Uncle Wiggily? Where is he?"</p> - -<p>"We want to see him in a hurry!" barked Peetie.</p> - -<p>"Yes, immediately," went on Jackie. He had heard the teacher that day in -school use the word, immediately, to tell a bad bumble bee to take his -seat and stop trying to sting Lulu Wibblewobble. Immediately means right -off quick, without waiting, you know.</p> - -<p>"Hoity-toity!" cried Nurse Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy, the muskrat housekeeper. -"What is the trouble?"</p> - -<p>"We must see Uncle Wiggily immediately!" barked Peetie again, trying to -stand on one ear. But he could not make it stiff enough, so he fell down, -and bumped into Jackie, and they both tumbled down the steps, making a -great racket.</p> - -<p>"There, there! You must be more quiet," cautioned Nurse Jane. "Uncle -Wiggily just came back from his auto ride for his health, and is taking a -nap. You must not wake him up. What do you want to see him about that is -so important?"</p> - -<p>"Oh, we'll wait until he wakes up," said Jackie, as he sat down on the -porch.</p> - -<p>"Ha! Who wants me?" suddenly exclaimed a voice a little later, and out -came Uncle Wiggily himself.</p> - -<p>"We do!" cried Jackie. "Oh, Uncle Wiggily!"</p> - -<p>"We're going to work!" added Peetie, unable to keep still any longer.</p> - -<p>"What! You don't mean to say you're going to leave school and go to work?" -asked Uncle Wiggily.</p> - -<p>"No, we're not going to leave school," exclaimed Peetie. "We are going to -work after school. Jackie is going to deliver newspapers."</p> - -<p>"And I'm going to get ten cents a week for it," said Jackie proudly, but -not too proud.</p> - -<p>"And I'm going to help at the clothes wringer for the circus elephant," -exclaimed Peetie.</p> - -<p>"Help at the wringer for the elephant!" cried Uncle Wiggily. "What does -that mean? You startle and puzzle me."</p> - -<p>"Why, you know the circus elephant has to dress up like a clown," went on -Peetie. "And he plays a drum and a handorgan, and he fires off a cannon in -the sawdust ring. And he does a lot of things like that. After a while his -white clown suit gets all dirty and he has to wash out his clothes. Then -he has to squeeze them in a wringer to get as much of the water out as he -can. Then he hangs them up to dry.</p> - -<p>"Well, he can turn the wringer himself with his trunk, but his paws are -so big that he can't put the clothes through between the rubber rollers. -So he advertised for some little animal boy to help him after school. I -answered, and I'm going to help him wash and dry his clothes."</p> - -<p>"How much are you to get?" asked Uncle Wiggily.</p> - -<p>"I get three puppy biscuits every day and a glass of pink lemonade, and on -Saturday afternoons I can go to the circus for nothing."</p> - -<p>"Fine!" cried Uncle Wiggily. "I'm real glad you came to tell me. You are -good and smart little animal boys."</p> - -<p>Then Peetie and Jackie ran off to do the new work they had arranged for, -and Uncle Wiggily cleaned his auto ready for his ride next day. And when -he had finished he thought he would take a walk down to the circus tent -and see how Peetie was helping the elephant wash the clothes. As for -Jackie, he had to run so fast, here and there and everywhere, to deliver -his papers that Uncle Wiggily did not know where to find him, any more -than Bo-peep did her sheep.</p> - -<p>Well, in a little while, the rabbit gentleman came to where the elephant -was washing his clothes. Of course he had to have a very large tub and -washboard and an extra large wringer for his clothes were very large.</p> - -<p>And there, up on a box in front of the tub, that was filled with suds and -water, stood Peetie Bow Wow, splashing around, and reaching down in for -the wet clothes. And as he fished them up, and put the ends between the -rubber rollers of the wringer, the elephant would turn the handle of the -squee-gee machine with his trunk.</p> - -<p>"How is that?" asked Peetie.</p> - -<p>"Fine!" cried the elephant, making his trunk go faster and faster, and -squirting the water out of the wet clothes, all over the ground.</p> - -<p>"Yes, Peetie is a good little chap," said Uncle Wiggily. Just then the -elephant's brother came along, and the two big animals began talking -together. And, as they were both a little deaf, each one shouted to the -other as loudly as he could. Oh! such a racket as they made—thunder was -nothing to it!</p> - -<p>And then a funny thing happened. Peetie turned around to put some more -clothes in the tub, when, all of a sudden, his tail got caught in between -the wringer's rubber rollers.</p> - -<p>"Ouch!" cried the little puppy dog. "Ouch! Oh, dear me! Stop, please, Mr. -Elephant. Don't turn the wringer any more!"</p> - -<p>But the two elephants were talking together, each one as loudly as he -could, about how much hay they could eat, and how some little boys at a -circus would give them only one peanut instead of a whole bag full, and -all things like that. So the clothes-washing elephant never noticed that -Peetie's tail was caught in the rollers. And he didn't hear him cry.</p> - -<p>Around and around the elephant turned the handle of the wringer with his -trunk, winding Peetie's tail right between the rollers, and drawing the -little puppy dog boy himself closer and closer into the tub, over the -water and nearer to the rubber rollers themselves.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 394px;"> -<img src="images/p116.jpg" width="394" height="640" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>"Oh, stop! Oh, stop!" cried poor Peetie trying to get away, but he -could not. "If I get rolled between the rollers I'll be as flat as a -pancake!" he screamed. "Oh, stop! Oh, Uncle Wiggily, save me!"</p> - -<p>"Yes, I will!" cried the rabbit gentleman. "You must stop turning that -wringer!" he said to the circus elephant. "You are wringing Peetie instead -of the clothes. His tail is caught!"</p> - -<p>But the elephant was so deaf, and his brother was calling to him so -loudly about pink lemonade, that he could not hear either Peetie or Uncle -Wiggily. Then, to make him listen, Uncle Wiggily with his crutch tickled -the elephant's foot, which was as high up as he could reach, but the big -creature thought it was only a mosquito, and paid no attention.</p> - -<p>"Oh, what shall I do?" cried Peetie.</p> - -<p>"I'll save you!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily, and then, happening to have a -bag of peanuts in his pocket he held them close to the elephant's trunk. -The elephant could smell, if he could not hear well, and all at once he -took the peanuts, and as he did so, of course, he removed his trunk from -the wringer handle.</p> - -<p>And as he ate the peanuts he saw what a terrible thing he was doing, -wringing Peetie instead of the clothes, so he very kindly made the wringer -go backwards, and out came Peetie's tail again, a little flat, but not -much hurt otherwise.</p> - -<p>"I am so sorry," said the elephant. "I wouldn't have had it happen for -the world."</p> - -<p>"Yes, it was an accident," spoke Uncle Wiggily, "but I guess Peetie had -better find some other kind of work to do after school."</p> - -<p>"All right," said the elephant. "I'll pay him off, and then I'll get -a rubbery snake to help me with my clothes. A snake won't mind being -squeezed."</p> - -<p>So he did that, and Peetie and Uncle Wiggily went home, and nothing more -happened that day. But next, in case the automobile horn doesn't blow the -little girl's rubber balloon up in the top of the tree, where the kittie -cat has its nest, I'll tell you about Uncle Wiggily and the trained nurse.</p> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 119]</span> -<h2>STORY XVII<br /> -<span>UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE TRAINED NURSE</span></h2> -</div> - -<p>Uncle Wiggily Longears, the gentleman rabbit, was out riding in his -automobile. He was taking exercise, so he would not be so fat, for a fat -rabbit is about the fattest thing there is, except a balloon, and that -doesn't count, as it has no ears.</p> - -<p>"I wonder what will happen to me to-day?" said Uncle Wiggily, as he rode -along, turning the turnip steering wheel from one side to the other to -keep from bumping into stones and stumps, and things like that. And, every -now and then, Uncle Wiggily would take a bite out of his turnip steering -wheel. That was what it was for, you see. And as for the German bologna -sausages which were the tires, Uncle Wiggily used to let anybody who -wanted to—such as a hungry doggie or a starving kittie—take a bite out -of them whenever they wanted to.</p> - -<p>Well, pretty soon, after a while, not so very long, Uncle Wiggily came to -the top of a hill. He stopped his auto there to look around at the green -fields and the apple trees in blossom, and at the little brook running -along over the green, mossy stones. And the brook never stubbed its toe -once on the stones! What do you think of that?</p> - -<p>"Well, I guess I'll go down hill," thought the old gentleman rabbit, and -down he started.</p> - -<p>But Oh unhappiness! Sadness, and, also, isn't it too bad!</p> - -<p>No sooner had Uncle Wiggily started down the hill in his auto than the -snicker-snooker-um got twisted around the boodle-oodle-um, and that made -the wibble-wobble-ton stand on its head, instead of standing on its ear as -it really ought to have done.</p> - -<p>Then the auto ran away, and the next thing Uncle Wiggily knew his car had -hit a stump, turned a somersault and part of a peppersault, and he was -thrown out.</p> - -<p>"Bang!" he fell, right on the hard ground, and for a moment he stayed -there, being too much out of breath to get up and see what was the matter.</p> - -<p>And when he tried to get up he couldn't. Something had happened to him. He -had hit his head on a stone. Poor Uncle Wiggily!</p> - -<p>But, very luckily, Dr. Possum happened to be passing, having just come -from paying a visit to Grandfather Goosey Gander, who had, by mistake, -eaten a shoe button with his corn meal pudding. And Dr. Possum, having -cured Grandpa Goosey, went at once to help Uncle Wiggily.</p> - -<p>"We must get you home right away, Uncle Wiggily," said the doctor -gentleman. "You must be put to bed and have a trained nurse."</p> - -<p>"Well, as long as I have to have a nurse, I should much prefer," said -Uncle Wiggily, faintly, "I should much prefer a trained one to a wild one. -For a trained nurse who can do tricks will be quite funny."</p> - -<p>"Hum!" exclaimed Dr. Possum. "A trained nurse has no time to do tricks. -Now rest yourself."</p> - -<p>So Uncle Wiggily sat back quietly in Dr. Possum's auto until he got to his -hollow stump home. Then Old Dog Percival and the doctor carried the rabbit -gentleman in, and they sent for a trained nurse. For Uncle Wiggily was -quite badly hurt, and needed some one to feed him for a while.</p> - -<p>Pretty soon the trained nurse came, and who did she turn out to be but -Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy herself, the kind old muskrat. She had been living -with Uncle Wiggily, but, for a time, had gone off to study to be a -trained nurse. She put on a white cap and a blue and white striped dress, -and she was just as good a nurse as one could get from the hospital. Uncle -Wiggily was too ill to notice, though.</p> - -<p>"I know how to look after him," said Nurse Jane, and she really did.</p> - -<p>She felt of his pulse, and made him put out his tongue to look at, to see -that he had not swallowed it by mistake, and she found out how hot he was -to see if he had fever, and all things like that. And she put a report -of all these things down on a bit of white birch bark for paper, using a -licorice stick for a pencil. Afterward Dr. Possum would read the report.</p> - -<p>Well, for some time Uncle Wiggily was quite ill, for you know it is no fun -to be in an automobile accident. Then he began to get better. Nurse Jane -did not have much to do, and Dr. Possum, who came in every day, said:</p> - -<p>"He will get well now. But Uncle Wiggily has had a hard time of it; very -hard!"</p> - -<p>And, as soon as he began to get better, Uncle Wiggily got sort of -impatient, and he wanted many things he could not have, or which were not -good for him. He wanted to get out of bed, but Nurse Jane would not let -him, for the doctor had told her not to. </p> - -<p>Then Uncle Wiggily said:</p> - -<p>"Well, you are a trained nurse. Now you must do some tricks for me, or I -shall get out of bed whether you want me to or not," and he barked like a -dog; really he did. You see he was not exactly himself, but rather out of -his head on account of the fever. "Come on, do some tricks!" he cried to -Nurse Jane.</p> - -<p>Poor Miss Fuzzy-Wuzzy! She had never done a trick since she was a little -girl muskrat, but she knew sick rabbits must be humored, so she tried to -think of a trick. She did not know whether to make believe jump rope, play -puss in a corner or pretend that she was a fire engine. And she really -wanted to help Uncle Wiggily!</p> - -<p>"Come on! Do something!" he cried, and he almost jumped out of bed. "Do -something."</p> - -<p>And just then, as it happened, a great big bee flew in the window, and -maybe it was going to sting Uncle Wiggily, for all I know. Then Nurse Jane -knew what to do.</p> - -<p>She caught up a soft towel, so as not to hurt the bee any more than she -had to, and she began hitting at him.</p> - -<p>"Get out of here! Get out of here!" cried Nurse Jane. "You can't sting -Uncle Wiggily!"</p> - -<p>"Buzz! Buzz!" sang the bee.</p> - -<p>"Go out! Go out!" exclaimed Nurse Jane, and -she made the towel sail through the air. The bee flew this way and that, -up and down and sideways, but always Nurse Jane was after him with the -towel, trying to drive him out of the window.</p> - -<p>She climbed up on chairs, she jumped over tables, without knocking over a -single medicine bottle. She crawled under the sofa and out again, she even -jumped on the couch and bounced up in the air like a balloon. And at last -she drove the bad bee out doors where he could get honey from the flowers, -and they didn't mind his stinging them if he wanted to, which of course he -didn't.</p> - -<p>Then, after that, Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy sat down in a chair, near Uncle -Wiggily, very tired out indeed. The old gentleman rabbit opened his eyes -and laughed a little.</p> - -<p>"Those were funny tricks you did for me," he said, "jumping around like -that. Very funny! Ha! Ha!"</p> - -<p>"I was not doing tricks," answered Nurse Jane, surprised-like. "I was -trying to keep a bee from biting you."</p> - -<p>"Were you indeed?" spoke Uncle Wiggily. "I thought they were some of the -tricks you had been trained to do. They were fine. I laughed so hard that -I think I am much better." </p> - -<p>And, indeed, he was, and soon he was all well, -so that Nurse Jane Fuzzy, without really meaning to at all, had done some -funny tricks when she drove out that bee. Oh! trained nurses are very -queer, I think, but they are very nice, also.</p> - -<p>So Uncle Wiggily was soon well, and needed no nurse, and when his auto was -mended, he could ride around in it as nicely as before.</p> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum">[Pg 126]</span> -<hr class="tb" /> -<p class="center p150"><b>The<br />Sunnybrook Series</b></p> -</div> - -<p class="center">By MRS. ELSIE M. ALEXANDER</p> - -<p class="center">Cloth Bound, 12 mo. 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GARIS - - _Author of_ "UNCLE WIGGILY BEDTIME STORIES", - "UNCLE WIGGILY'S PICTURE BOOK", - "UNCLE WIGGILY'S STORY BOOK", Etc. - - _Illustrated by_ - LOUIS WISA - -[Illustration] - - A. L. BURT COMPANY - PUBLISHERS NEW YORK - - - - - UNCLE WIGGILY BOOKS - (TRADE MARK REGISTERED) - - _by_ - HOWARD R. GARIS - - * * * * * - -BEDTIME STORIES - - - UNCLE WIGGILY and CHARLIE and ARABELLA CHICK - UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE RINGTAILS - UNCLE WIGGILY ON SUGAR ISLAND - UNCLE WIGGILY AT THE SEASHORE - UNCLE WIGGILY AND BABY BUNTY - UNCLE WIGGILY IN THE COUNTRY - UNCLE WIGGILY'S PUZZLE BOOK - UNCLE WIGGILY IN THE WOODS - UNCLE WIGGILY'S ADVENTURES - UNCLE WIGGILY'S AUTOMOBILE - UNCLE WIGGILY ON THE FARM - UNCLE WIGGILY'S BUNGALOW - UNCLE WIGGILY'S FORTUNE - UNCLE WIGGILY'S TRAVELS - UNCLE WIGGILY'S AIRSHIP - - - * * * * * - - -Larger Uncle Wiggily Volumes - - * * * * * - -UNCLE WIGGILY'S PICTURE BOOK - - _33 full colored illustrations and - 32 in black and white_ - -UNCLE WIGGILY'S STORY BOOK - - _16 full colored illustrations and - 29 in black and white_ - - - _Copyright 1913 by_ - R. F. FENNO & COMPANY - -UNCLE WIGGILY'S AUTOMOBILE - - * * * * * - -_Printed in the United States of America_ - - - - -PUBLISHER'S NOTE - - - These stories appeared originally in the Evening News, of Newark, N. - J., and are reproduced in book form by the kind permission of the - publishers of that paper, to whom the author extends his thanks. - - - - -Uncle Wiggily's Automobile - - * * * * * - - -STORY I - -UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE SORROWFUL CROW - - -Once upon a time, a good many years ago, there was an old rabbit -gentleman named Uncle Wiggily Longears. He was related to Johnnie and -Billie Bushytail, the squirrels, as well as being an Uncle to Sammie -and Susie Littletail, his rabbit nephew and niece. And Uncle Wiggily -lived near Jackie and Peetie Bow Wow, the puppy dogs, while, not far -away was the home of the Wibblewobble family of ducks, and across -the street, almost, around the corner by the old slump, were the Kat -children, and Neddie and Beckie Stubtail, the nice bear children. - -One day Uncle Wiggily was not feeling very well, so he sent for Dr. -Possum, who soon came over. Dr. Possum found Uncle Wiggily sitting in -the rocking chair on the front porch of the hollow stump house where he -lived. - -"Well, what is the trouble, Uncle Wiggily?" asked Dr. Possum, as he -looked over the tops of his glasses. - -"I am sick," answered the rabbit gentleman. - -"Sick; eh?" exclaimed Dr. Possum. "Let me see. Put out your tongue!" - -Uncle Wiggily did so. - -"Ha! Hum!" exclaimed Dr. Possum. "Yes, I think you are ill, and you -will have to do something for it right away." - -"What will I have to do?" asked Uncle Wiggily, anxious-like, and his -nose twinkled like a star on a frosty night. - -"You will simply have to go away," said Dr. Possum. "There is no help -for it." - -"I don't see why!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily, and he bent one of his long -ears forward and the other backward, until he looked as if he had the -letter V on top of his head. But, of course, he hadn't, for that letter -is in the reading book--or it was the last time I looked. - -"Yes," said Dr. Possum, "you must go away." - -"I don't see why," said Uncle Wiggily again. "Couldn't I get well at -home here?" - -"No, you could not," replied Dr. Possum. "If you want me to tell you -the truth----" - -"Oh, always tell the truth!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily, quickly. "Always!" - -"Well, then," said Dr. Possum, as he looked in his medicine case, to -see if he had any strong peppermint for Aunt Jerushia Ann, the little, -nervous old lady woodchuck. "Well, then, to tell you the truth, you are -getting too fat, and you must take more exercise." - -"Exercise!" cried Uncle Wiggily. "Why! Don't I play a game of Scotch -checkers with Grandfather Goosey Gander, the old gentleman duck, nearly -every day? And we always eat the sugar cookies we use for checkers." - -"That's just it," said Dr. Possum, as he rolled up a sweet sugar-pill -for Sammie Littletail, the mill rabbit boy; "you eat too much, and you -don't jump around enough." - -"But I used to," said Uncle Wiggily, while he twinkled his pink nose -like a red star on a frosty night. "Why, don't you remember the time -I went off and had a lot of adventures, and how I traveled after my -fortune, and found it?" - -"That is just the trouble," spoke Dr. Possum. "You found your fortune, -and since you became rich you do nothing. I remember the time when you -used to teach Sammie and Susie Littletail how to keep out of traps, and -how to dig burrows and watch out for savage dogs." - -"Ah, yes!" sighed Uncle Wiggily. "Those were happy days." - -"And healthful days, too," said Dr. Possum. "You were much better off -then, and not so fat." - -"And so you think I had better start traveling again?" asked Uncle -Wiggily, taking off his high hat and bowing politely to Uncle Lettie, -the nice goat lady, who was passing by, with her two horns sticking -through holes in her Sunday-go-to-meeting bonnet. - -"Yes, it would be the best thing for you," spoke Dr. Possum. "Medicine -is all right sometimes, but fresh air, and sunshine, and being -out-of-doors, and happy and contented, and helping people, as Uncle -Booster, the old ground hog gentleman, used to do--all these are better -than medicine." - -"How is Uncle Booster, by the way?" inquired the rabbit gentleman. - -"Fine! He helped a little girl mouse to jump over a mud puddle the -other day, and after she was on the other side she jumped back, all by -herself, and fell in," said Dr. Possum, with a laugh. "That's the kind -of a gentleman Uncle Booster is!" - -"Ha! Ha!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily. "That's queer! But now do you think -it would do me any good to start off and have some adventures in my -automobile?" - -"It would be better to walk," said Dr. Possum. "Remember you called me -in to tell you what was the matter with you, because you felt ill. And -I tell you that you must go around more; take more exercise. Still, if -you had rather go in your auto than walk, I have no objections." - -"I had much rather," said Uncle Wiggily. "I like my auto." - -"Then," said Dr. Possum, "I will write that as a prescription." So on a -piece of white birch bark he wrote: - - - "One auto ride every day, to be taken - before meals. - - Dr. Possum." - - -"I'll do it at once," said the rabbit gentleman. - -Uncle Wiggily Longears was a quite rich, you know, having found his -fortune, of about a million yellow carrots, as I have told you in some -other stories, so he could afford to have an auto. - -And it was the nicest auto you could imagine. It had a turnip for a -steering wheel, and whenever Uncle Wiggily got hungry he could take a -bite of turnip. Sometimes after a long trip the steering wheel would -be all eaten up, and old Circus Dog Percival, who mended broken autos, -would have to put on a new wheel. - -And to make a noise, so that no one would get run over by his machine, -Uncle Wiggily had a cow's horn fastened on his auto; so instead of -going "Honk-honk!" like a duck, it went "Moo! Moo!" like a bossy cow at -supper time. - -"Well, if I'm going off for my health, I'd better start," said Uncle -Wiggily, as he went out to his auto after Dr. Possum had gone. "I'll -take a long ride." - -So he got in the machine, and pushed on the doodle-oodle-um, and -twisted the tinkerum-tankerum, and away he went as fast as anything, if -not faster. - -Over the fields and through the woods he went, and pretty soon he came -to a place where lived a sorrowful crow gentleman. The crow is a black -bird, and it pulls up corn and goes "Caw! Caw! Caw!" Nobody knows why, -though. - -And this crow was very sorrowful. He was always thinking something -unpleasant was going to happen, such as that he was going to drop his -ice cream cone in the mud, or that somebody would put whitewash on him. -Oh, he was very sorrowful, was this crow, and his name was Mr. Caw-caw. -When Uncle Wiggily got to where the crow was sitting in a tree the -black creature cried: - -"Oh, dear! O woe is me! O unhappiness!" - -"Why, what is the matter?" asked Uncle Wiggily, curious-like! - -"Oh, something is going to happen!" cried the crow. "I know it will -rain or snow or freeze, or maybe my feathers will all blow off." - -"Don't be silly!" said Uncle Wiggily. "You just come for an auto ride -with me, and you'll feel better. Come along, bless your black tail!" - -So Mr. Caw-caw got into the auto, and once more Uncle Wiggily started -off. He had not gone very far before, all of a sudden, there was a -bangity-bang noise, and the auto stopped so quickly that Uncle Wiggily -and the crow were almost thrown out of their seats. - -"There!" cried the black crow. "I knew something would happen!" and he -cried "Caw! Caw! Caw!" - -"It is nothing at all," said the rabbit gentleman as he got out to -look. "Only the whizzicum-whazzicum has become twisted around the -jump-over-the-clothes basket, and we can't go until it's fixed." - -"Can't go?" asked the crow. - -"Can't go--no," said Uncle Wiggily. And he didn't know what to do. But -just then along came Old Dog Percival, who used to work in a circus. - -"I'll pull you along," he said. "You sit in the auto and steer, and -I'll pull you." And he did, by a rope fast to the car. The crow said it -was funny to have a circus dog pulling an auto, but Uncle Wiggily did -not mind, and soon they were at a place where the auto could be fixed. -So Uncle Wiggily and the crow waited there, while the machine was being -mended. - -"And we will see what happens to us to-morrow," said Uncle Wiggily, -"for I am going to travel on." And he did. And in case the jumping rope -doesn't skip over the clock, and make the hands tickle the face I'll -tell you next about Uncle Wiggily and the school teacher. - - - - -STORY II - -UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE SCHOOL TEACHER - - -Uncle Wiggily Longears, the nice old gentleman rabbit, was riding -along in his automobile, with the turnip for a steering wheel, and he -had not yet taken more than two bites out of the turnip, for it was -only shortly after breakfast. With him was Mr. Caw-caw, the black crow -gentleman. - -"Do you think your automobile will go all right now?" asked the crow, -as he looked down from his seat at the big wheels which had German -sausages around for tires, so in case Old Percival, the circus dog, got -hungry, he could eat one for lunch. - -"Oh yes, it will go all right now," said the rabbit gentleman. -"Specially since we have had it fixed." - -I think, if I am not mistaken, and in case the cat has not eat up all -the bacon, that I told you in the story before this one how Uncle -Wiggily had been advised by Dr. Possum to go traveling around for his -health and how he had started off in the auto. Did I tell you that? - -He met Mr. Caw-caw and the tinkle-inkle-um on the auto broke, or else -it was the widdle-waddle-um. Anyhow, it wouldn't go, and Old Dog -Percival, coming along, pulled the machine to the fixing place. Then -Uncle Wiggily and Mr. Caw-caw slept all night and now it was daylight -again and they had started off once more. - -"It is a lovely morning," said Uncle Wiggily, as he drove the machine -over the fields and through the woods. "A lovely spring day!" - -"But we may get an April shower before night," said Mr. Caw-caw, the -crow gentleman, who had black feathers and who was always sad instead -of being happy. "Oh, dear, I'm sure it will rain," he said. - -"Nonsensicalness!" cried Uncle Wiggily, swinging his ears around just -like some circus balloons trying to get away from an elephant eating -peanuts. "Cheer up! Be happy!" - -"Well, if it doesn't rain it will snow," said the sad crow. - -"Oh, cheer up," said Uncle Wiggily, as he took another bite out of the -turnip steering wheel. "Have a nibble," he went on politely. "It may -only blow." - -"I'm sure it will do something," spoke the gloomy crow. "Anyhow I don't -care for turnip." - -"Have some corn then," said Uncle Wiggily. - -"Is it popped?" asked the crow. - -"No, but I can pop it," said the old gentleman rabbit. "I will pop it -on my automobile engine, which gets very hot, almost like a gas stove." - -So the old rabbit gentleman, who was riding around in his auto to take -exercise, because he was getting too fat, and Dr. Possum had said so, -popped the corn on the hot engine, and very good it was, too, for the -crow to eat. - -But even the popcorn could not seem to make the unhappy crow feel -better, and he cried so much, as the auto went along, that his tears -made a mud-puddle in the road where they happened to be just then. -And the auto wheels, with the German bologna sausages on for tires, -splashed in the mud and made it fly all over like anything. - -Then, just as Uncle Wiggily steered the auto right away from the road -into a nice green wood, where the leaves were just coming out on the -trees, the old gentleman rabbit heard some one saying: - -"Oh, dear! Oh, dear me! I know I'll never be at school on time! Oh, -what a bad accident!" - -"My!" cried Uncle Wiggily. "What can that be?" - -"Oh, something dreadful, you may be sure," said Mr. Caw-caw, the crow -gentleman. "Oh, I just knew something would happen on this trip." - -"Well, let it happen!" said Uncle Wiggily. "I like things to happen. -This seems to be some one in trouble, and I am going to help, whoever -it is." - -"Then please help me," said the voice. - -"Who are you?" asked Uncle Wiggily. - -"I am the lady mouse school teacher," said some one they could not see, -"and on my way to school I ran a thorn in my foot, so I cannot walk. If -I am not there on time to open the school, the children will not know -what to do. Oh, isn't it terrible!" - -"Say no more!" cried Uncle Wiggily, cheerfully. "You shall ride to -school in my auto. Then you will be there on time, and the animal -children will not have to go home and miss their lessons. I am so glad -I can help you. Isn't it horribly jolly to help people?" cried Uncle -Wiggily to the crow, just as an English rabbit might have done. - -"Ha! It's jolly, all right, if you can help them," said the crow. "But -I'm sure something will happen. Some bad elephant will eat off our -sausage tires, or a cow will drink the gasoline, or we shall roll down -a hill." - -"Nonsensicalness!" cried Uncle Wiggily, real exasperated-like, which -means bothered. "Get in, Miss Mouse School Teacher," he said, "and I -will soon have you at your classes." - -So the lady mouse school teacher got into the auto, and sat beside Mr. -Caw-caw, who asked her how many six and seven grains of corn were. - -"Thirteen," said the nice mouse school teacher. - -"Thirteen in the winter," spoke the crow, "but I mean in summer." - -"Six and seven are thirteen in summer just as in winter," said the lady -mouse. - -"Wrong," croaked the crow. "If you plant thirteen grains of corn in -summer you'll get thirteen stalks, each with thirteen ears of corn on, -and each ear has five hundred and sixty-three grains, and thirteen -times thirteen times five hundred and sixty-three makes--how many does -it make?" he asked of Uncle Wiggily suddenly. - -"Oh, please stop!" cried the lady mouse school teacher; "you make my -head ache." - -"How much is one headache and two headaches?" asked the crow, who -seemed quite curious. - -"Stop! Stop!" cried Uncle Wiggily, as he took a bite out of the turnip -steering wheel. "You will make the auto turn a somersault." - -"How much," said the crow, "is one somersault and one peppersault added -to a mustard plaster and divided by----" - -"There you go!" suddenly cried Uncle Wiggily as the auto hit a stone -and stopped. "You've made the plunkity-plunk bite the wizzie-wazzie!" - -"Oh, dear!" cried the crow. "I knew something would happen!" - -"Well, it was your fault," said Uncle Wiggily. "Now I'll have to have -the auto fixed again." - -"Can't we go on to school?" asked the lady mouse teacher anxiously. - -"No, I am sorry to say, we cannot," said Uncle Wiggily. - -"Then I shall be late, and the children will all run home after all. -Oh, dear!" - -"I knew something--" began the crow. - -"Stop it!" cried Uncle Wiggily, provoked-like. - -The lady mouse school teacher did not know what to do, and it looked as -if she would be late, for even when Uncle Wiggily had crawled under the -auto, and had put pepper on the German sausage tires, he could not make -the machine go. - -But, just as the school teacher was going to be late, along came flying -Dickie Chip-Chip, the sparrow boy, with his new airship. And in the -airship he gave the lady mouse school teacher a ride to school up above -the tree tops, so she was not late after all. - -She called a good-by to Uncle Wiggily, who some time afterward had his -auto fixed again, and then he and the crow gentleman went on and had -more adventures. What the next one was I'll tell you on the next page, -when the story will be about Uncle Wiggily and the candy--that is, if a -little Montclair girl, named Cora, doesn't eat too much peanut brittle, -and get her hair so sticky that the brush can't comb it. - - - - -STORY III - -UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE CANDY - - -Uncle Wiggily, the nice old gentleman rabbit, was riding along in his -automobile, with the turnip for a steering wheel and big, fat German -bologna sausages on for tires. On the seat beside Uncle Wiggily was the -crow gentleman, named Mr. Caw-caw. - -"Well, where do you think you will go to-day?" asked the crow -gentleman, as he straightened out some of his black feathers with his -black bill, for the wind had ruffled them all up. - -"Where will I go?" repeated Uncle Wiggily, as he steered to one side -so he would not run over a stone and hurt it, "well, to tell you the -truth--I hardly know. Dr. Possum, when he told me to ride around for my -health, because I was getting too fat, did not say where I was to go, -in particular." - -"Then let's go straight ahead," said the crow. "I don't like going -around in a circle; it makes me dizzy." - -"And it does me, also," spoke the rabbit gentleman. "That is why I -never can ride much on a merry-go-'round, though I often take Johnnie -or Billie Bushytail, my squirrel nephews, or Buddy and Brighteyes, the -guinea pig children, on one for a little while. But, Mr. Crow, we will -go straight ahead in my auto, and we will see what adventure happens to -us next." - -For you know something was always happening to Uncle Wiggily as he -traveled around. Sometimes it was one thing, and sometimes another. You -remember, I dare say, how, the day before, he had nearly helped to keep -the nice lady mouse school teacher from being late. - -Well, pretty soon, as Uncle Wiggily and the crow gentleman were riding -in the auto, all at once they looked down the road and saw a little -girl sitting on a stone. She had a box in her hands and she was trying -to open it. But she was crying so hard that she could not see out of -her eyes, because of her tears, and so she could not open the box. - -"My goodness me sakes alive, and some roast beef gravy!" cried Uncle -Wiggily, as he stopped the auto. "What can be the matter with that -child?" For you know Uncle Wiggily loved children. - -Then the old gentleman rabbit blew on the cow's horn, that was on his -auto to warn people kindly to get out of danger, and the cow's horn -went "Moo! Moo! Moo!" very softly, three times just like that. - -The little girl looked up through her tears, and when she saw Uncle -Wiggily and the crow gentleman in the auto, she smiled and asked: - -"Where is the mooley cow?" - -"Only her horn is here," said Uncle Wiggily, as he made it go "Moo!" -again. - -"Oh, dear," said the little girl. "I just love a mooley cow," and she -was going to cry some more, because there was no cow to be seen, when -Uncle Wiggily asked: - -"What is the matter? Why are you crying?" - -"Because I can't get this box open," said the little girl, whose name -was Cora. - -"What is in the box?" asked the rabbit gentleman. - -"Candy," said little Cora. "I just love candy, and I haven't had any -in ever so long. Now my papa gave me a box, but the string is tied on -it so tightly that I can't get the box open, and my papa went away and -forgot about it. Oh, dear. Boo! hoo! Can you open it for me, Uncle -Wiggily?" - -The rabbit gentleman thought for a moment. Then he said, with a twinkle -in his eyes that matched the twinkle in his nose: - -"Well, possibly I might untie the string, but you see my teeth are -so big and sharp, and are so used to gnawing wood, and bark and -carrots, and I can't see very well, even with my glasses, so I might -accidentally, when I bite through the string I might, by mistake, also -bite through the box, and eat the candy myself." - -"Oh, dear!" cried the little girl. Then she added quickly, as she -thought of her polite manners: "I wouldn't mind, Uncle Wiggily, if you -did eat some of the candy. Only open the box for me so I can get part -of it," she said. - -"I think I have a better plan than that," said the old gentleman -rabbit. "I will ask Mr. Caw-caw, our crow friend here, to untie the -string for you. With his sharp bill this crow gentleman can easily -loosen the knot, and that, too, without danger of breaking the box and -taking any candy." - -"Will he do it?" asked the little girl eagerly. - -"To be sure, I will," said the crow gentleman, and he loosened that -knot then and there with his sharp bill, which seemed just made for -such things. - -"Oh, what lovely candy!" cried the little girl, as she took the cover -off the box. "I am going to give you each some!" she added. And she -gave Mr. Caw-caw some candy flavored with green corn, for he liked -that best of all, and to Uncle Wiggily she gave some nice, soft, -squishie-squashie candy, with a carrot inside. And the little girl ate -some chocolate candy for herself, and did not cry any more. - -"Get in my auto," said Uncle Wiggily, "and I will give you a ride. -Perhaps we may have an adventure." - -"Oh, I just love adventures!" said little Cora. "I love them even -better than candy. But we can eat candy in the auto anyhow," she went -on, with a laugh, as she climbed up in the seat. - -Then Uncle Wiggily turned the tinkerum-tankerum, and with a feather -tickled the whizzicum-whazzicum to make the auto go, and it went. The -old rabbit gentleman made the cow's horn blow "Moo! Moo!" and away they -started off through the woods. - -They had not gone very far, and Cora had eaten only about six pieces of -candy, when they heard a voice behind them shouting: - -"Wait for me! Wait for me! I want a ride!" - -"Ha!" cawed the crow, "who can that be?" - -"I'll look," said Uncle Wiggily, and he did. Then he exclaimed: "Oh, -dear! It's the circus elephant. And he's grown so big lately, that if -he gets in with us he will break my auto." - -"Don't let him do it then," said Mr. Caw-caw. - -"I don't believe I will," said Uncle Wiggily. - -"But would it be polite not to give him a ride?" asked the little girl, -as she ate another piece of candy. - -"No, you are right, it would not," said Uncle Wiggily, decidedly. "I -must give him a ride, but he's sure to break my auto, and then I can't -ride around for my health any more, and stop getting fat. Oh, dear, -what a predicament!" A predicament means trouble, you know. - -Then the elephant called again: - -"I say, hold on there! I want a ride!" and he came on as fast as -anything. Uncle Wiggily was going to stop, and let the big creature get -in, when the crow gentleman said: - -"I have it! We'll pretend we don't hear him. We'll keep right on, and -not stop, and then it won't be impolite, for he will think we didn't -listen to what he said." - -"That's it," said Uncle Wiggily. "We'll do that. Pachy is the dearest -old chap in the world, you know, but he really is too big for this -auto." Pachy was the elephant's name, you see. - -So Uncle Wiggily made the auto go faster, and still the elephant ran -after it, calling: - -"Stop! Stop! I want a ride!" - -"He's catching up to us," said the crow, looking back. - -"Oh, dear!" cried Uncle Wiggily, "what's to be done?" - -"I know what to do," spoke Cora. "I'll drop some pieces of candy in the -road for him, and when he stops to eat them we can get so far away he -can't catch up to us." - -"Please do," begged Uncle Wiggily, and the little girl did. And when -the elephant saw the pieces of candy, being very fond of sweet things, -he stopped to pick them up in his trunk and eat them. - -And it took him quite a while, for the candy was well scattered about. -And when the elephant had eaten the last piece Uncle Wiggily and the -crow, and little girl, were far off in the auto and the elephant could -not catch them to break the machine; though even if he had smashed it -he would not have meant to do so. - -So Uncle Wiggily rode on, looking for more adventures, and he soon -found one. I'll tell you about it in the next story, which will be -called, "Uncle Wiggily at the Squirrel House;"--that is if the clothes -wringer doesn't squeeze the rubber ball so it cries and makes water -come in the eyes of the potatoes. - - - - -STORY IV - -UNCLE WIGGILY AT THE SQUIRREL HOUSE - - -Uncle Wiggily, the nice old gentleman rabbit, was standing one day in -front of his new automobile which had run away with him upsetting, and -breaking one of the wheels. But it had been fixed all right again. - -"I think this automobile will go fine now," said Uncle Wiggily to -himself, as he got up on the front seat. "Now, I am ready to start off -on some more travels, and in search of more adventures, and this time -I won't have to walk. Now let me see, do I turn on the fizzle-fazzle -first or the twinkum-twankum? I forget." - -So he looked carefully all over the automobile to see if he could -remember what first to turn to make it go, but he couldn't think what -it was. Because, you see, he was all excited over his accident. I -didn't tell you that story because I thought it might make you cry. It -was very sad. The crow gentleman flew away after it. - -"I guess I'll have to look in the cookbook," said Uncle Wiggily. -"Perhaps that will tell me what to do." - -So he took out a cookbook from under the seat and leafed it over until -he came to the page where it tells how to cook automobiles, and there -he found what he wanted to know. - -"Ha! I see!" cried Uncle Wiggily; "first I must twist the -dinkum-dankum, and then I must tickle the tittlecum-tattlecum, and then -I'll go." - -Well, he did this, and just as he was about to start off on his journey -out came running Sammie and Susie Littletail, the two rabbit children, -with whom Uncle Wiggily sometimes lived. - -"Oh, Uncle Wiggily!" cried Susie, "where are you going?" - -"And may we come along?" asked Sammie, making his nose twinkle like two -stars on a night in June. - -"I am going off on a long journey, for my health, and to look for more -adventures," said the old gentleman rabbit. "I am tired of staying -around the house taking medicine for my rheumatism. So Dr. Possum told -me to travel around. I don't just know where I am going, but I am going -somewhere, and if you like you may come part of the way. Hop in." - -Sammie and Susie hopped in the back part of the auto, where there -were two little seats for them, and then Uncle Wiggily turned the -whizzicum-whazzicum around backward and away they went as nicely as the -baby creeps over the floor to catch the kittie by the tail; only you -mustn't do that, you know; indeed not! - -"Oh, isn't this great?" cried Susie, in delight. - -"It certainly is," agreed Sammie, blinking his pink eyes because the -wind blew in them. "I hope Uncle Wiggily has an adventure while we're -with him." - -And then, all of a sudden, a doggie ran across the road in front of the -auto, and the doggie's tail was hanging down behind him and sticking -out quite a bit, and, as it was quite a long tail, Uncle Wiggily nearly -ran over it, but, of course, he didn't mean to, even if he had done it. - -"Look out of the way, little doggie!" cried the old gentleman rabbit, -kindly. - -"I am looking as fast as I can!" cried the doggie, and he ran to the -sidewalk as quickly as he could, and then he turned around to see if -his tail was still fastened to him. - -"That came near being an adventure," said Susie, waving her pocket -handkerchief. - -"Yes, almost too near," said Uncle Wiggily. "I think I will go through -the woods instead of along the streets, and then I won't be in any -danger of running over any one." - -So he steered the auto toward the woodland road, and Sammie cried: - -"Oh, I know what let's do! Let's go call on Johnnie and Billie -Bushytail, the squirrel boys. Then we'll have some fun." - -"All right, we'll do it," agreed Uncle Wiggily, for he liked fun as -much as the children did, if not more. - -Well, as they were going along the road, all of a sudden they heard a -little voice calling to them. - -"Oh, please don't run over me!" the voice cried. "Please be careful!" -And, looking down, Sammie saw a little black cricket on the path just -ahead of the auto, which Uncle Wiggily was now making go very slowly. - -"Why don't you get out of the way if you don't want to be run over?" -asked Susie, politely, for the cricket just stood still there, looking -at them, and not making a move. - -"Oh, I'm so stiff from the cold that I can't hop about any more," said -the cricket, "or else I would hop out of the way. You know I can't -stand cold weather." - -[Illustration] - -"That's too bad," said Uncle Wiggily as he stopped the auto. "I'll give -you a ride, and perhaps I can find some warm place for you to spend the -winter." - -So the old gentleman rabbit kindly picked up the cold and stiff cricket -and gave it to Susie, and Susie gently put it in the warm pocket of her -jacket, and there it was so nice and cozy-ozy that the cricket went -fast to sleep. - -And then, in about forty-'leven squeak-squawk toots of the big -mooley-cow automobile horn, there they were at the home of Johnnie and -Billy Bushytail, the squirrel brothers. - -"Toot! Toot!" tooted Uncle Wiggily on his tooter-tooter mooley-cow horn. - -"There! I guess that will bring out the boys if they are in the house," -said the old gentleman rabbit. - -And then, all of a sudden, something happened. Susie and Sammie were -looking at the front door, expecting Johnnie and Billie to come out, -when Susie saw a great big bear's face up at one window of the squirrel -house. - -"Oh! Look! Look!" she cried. "The bear has gotten in and maybe he has -bitten Johnnie." - -And just then Sammie looked at the other window and he saw a wolf's -face peering out. - -"Oh, dear!" cried Sammie, "the wolf has gotten Billie." - -"My gracious!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily. "I'm going for the police -right away. Hold on tightly, children, for I am going to twist the -tinkerum-tankerum and make this automobile go very fast. Oh! how sorry -I am for poor Johnnie and Billie." - -But just before Uncle Wiggily could start the auto, there was a shout -of laughter. The front door of the Bushytail home swung open, and out -rushed Billie and Johnnie, jumping and skipping. And Johnnie had a -wolf's false face in his paws and Billie had a bear's false face in his -paws. - -"Ho! Ho!" they shouted together. "Did we scare you, Uncle Wiggily? We -didn't mean to, but we were just practising." - -"Was that you boys looking out of the windows with your false faces -on?" asked Uncle Wiggily very much surprised-like. - -"That was us," said Johnnie. - -"And wasn't there a real bear?" asked Susie, flapping her ears. - -"And wasn't it a real wolf?" asked Sammie, wiggling his paws. - -"Not a bit," said Billie. "We're just getting ready for Hallowe'en -to-morrow night, and those were our false faces, you know, and I wish -you'd all stay with us and have some fun." - -"We will," said Uncle Wiggily. "I'll put my auto in the barn, and we'll -stay." - -So they did, and in case the little wooden dog with the pink-blue nose -doesn't bite the tail of the woolly cat, I'll tell you next about Uncle -Wiggily having Hallowe'en fun. - - - - -STORY V - -UNCLE WIGGILY'S HALLOWE'EN FUN - - -"Oh, dear, I wish it were night," said Susie Littletail. - -"So do I!" exclaimed Sammie, her brother. "Then it would be Hallowe'en." - -"And both of us wish the same thing," said Johnnie Bushytail, as he and -his brother Billie went skipping about the room of their house. - -"Oh, don't wish so hard or night might come before I'm ready for it," -said Uncle Wiggily Longears, the old gentleman rabbit. "I've got to -decorate my auto yet and get my false face, you know." - -"What kind are you going to have?" asked Susie. - -"Oh, I think I'll dress up like an elephant," said Uncle Wiggily. - -"But what will you do for a trunk?" asked Mrs. Bushytail, for, you see, -Uncle Wiggily and Sammie and Susie had stayed at the squirrel's house -to have some fun. This was the first place the old gentleman rabbit -came to after starting out in his auto for his health, and after some -fresh adventures. "What will you do for an elephant's trunk?" asked -Mrs. Bushytail. - -"I will take a long stocking and stuff it full of soft cotton so it -will look just like an elephant's face," said Uncle Wiggily. "Then I'll -go out with the children in my auto and we'll have a lot of fun." - -So all that day they got ready for the Hallowe'en fun they were to have -that night. Johnnie and Billie had their false faces, you remember; -Johnnie had a wolf's face and Billie a bear's, and they were too cute -for anything. But, of course, Sammie and Susie Littletail and Uncle -Wiggily had to have some false faces also, and it took quite a while -for the rabbit children to decide what they wanted. - -"I think I'll dress up like a wild Indian," said Sammie at last. - -"And I'm going to be a pussy cat," said Susie. - -"And if any dogs chase you, I'll growl at them, and scare them away," -said Billie, who was going to be a make-believe bear. - -"Yes, and I'll tickle them with my stuffed-stocking elephant's trunk," -said Uncle Wiggily. "Now, I must go out and put some oil and gasoline -in my auto, and see that the frizzle-frazzle works all right, so we can -go Hallowe'en riding to-night." - -Finally the animal children were all ready, and they were waiting for -it to get dark so they could go out. And, pretty soon, after supper, -when the sun had gone to bed, it did get dark. Then the four animal -children and Uncle Wiggily went out in the auto. - -Say, I just wish you could have seen them; really I do! and I'd show -you a picture of them, only I'm not allowed to do that. And besides it -was too dark to see pictures well, so perhaps it doesn't much matter. - -Oh, but they were the funny looking sights, though! Billy Bushytail -acted like a real bear, growling as hard as ever he could, though, of -course, he was polite about it, as it was only fun. And what a savage -make-believe wolf Johnnie was! - -And there was Susie, as cute a little pussy cat as one would meet with -in going from here to the moon and back. And as for Sammie, well, say, -he was so much like a real Indian that when he looked in the glass -he was frightened at himself; yes, really he was, and he had truly -feathers on, too; not make-believe ones, either. - -Uncle Wiggily was dressed up like an elephant, and he sat in the front -of the auto to steer it. Only his stuffed-stocking trunk got in the -way of the steering wheel, so Uncle Wiggily had to put it behind him, -over his left shoulder and have Susie hold it. I mean she held his -stuffed-stocking trunk, not the steering wheel, you know. - -"Here we go!" suddenly cried Uncle Wiggily, and his voice sounded far -away because it had to go down inside the stuffed-stocking elephant -trunk and come out again around in back of him. Then he twisted the -tinkerum-tankerum, and away they went in the automobile. - -All at once, from around a corner, came a big clown with red, white and -blue all over his face. He had a rattlety-bang-banger thing and he was -making a terrible racket on it. - -"Oh, I know who that is!" cried Susie. "You're Jimmie Wibblewobble, the -boy duck." - -"That's right," said the clown, making more noise than ever. -"Whoop-de-doodle-do! Isn't this fun!" - -Along went the auto and by this time there were a whole lot of animal -children prancing and dancing around it. Uncle Wiggily had to make the -auto go real slowly so as not to hurt any of them, for they were all -over the streets. - -There was Buddy Pigg, dressed up like a camel, and there was Dickie -Chip-Chip and his sister, and they were dressed up like sailors. -Brighteyes Pigg had on a cow's false face and Billie Goat was dressed -up like a Chinaman, while Nannie, his sister, was supposed to be a lady -with a sealskin coat on. Oh, I couldn't tell you how all the different -animal children were dressed, but I'll just say that Bully, the frog, -with his tall hat, was dressed like a football player and Aunt Lettie, -the nice old lady goat, made believe she was a fireman, and Munchie -Trot was a pretend-policeman. - -And such fun as they had! Uncle Wiggily steered the auto here and -there, and squeaked and squawked his tooter-teeter so no one would get -hurt. There were about forty-'leven tin horns being blown, and the -wooden rattlety-bang-bangs were rattling all over and some one threw a -whole lot of prettily colored paper in the air until it looked as if it -were raining red, pink, green, purple, blue, yellow and skilligimink -colored snow. - -And then, all at once, out from the crowd, came a figure that looked -like a bear. Oh, it was very real looking with long teeth, and shaggy -fur, and that bear came right up to the auto that Uncle Wiggily was -steering. - -"I've come to get you!" growled the bear, away down in his throat. - -"Oh, he's almost real!" exclaimed Susie, and she forgot that she was -holding Uncle Wiggily's stuffed-stocking trunk, and let go of it, so -that it hung down in front of him. - -"I am a real bear!" growled the shaggy creature. - -"Oh, you can't fool us," said Johnnie Bushytail, with a laugh. "You're -Jacko or Jumpo Kinkytail dressed up like a bear, just as my brother -Billie is. You can't fool us." - -"But I am a real bear!" growled the shaggy creature again, "and I'm -hungry so I'm going to bite Uncle Wiggily." - -And, would you ever believe it? he was a real bear who had come in from -the woods. He made a grab for Uncle Wiggily, but the old gentleman -rabbit leaned far back in his auto seat, and the bear only got hold of -the stuffed-stocking trunk. And then the bear pulled on that so hard -that it came all apart and the cotton stuffing came out, and got up the -bear's nose and made him sneeze. - -And then up came running Munchie Trot, the pony boy, who was dressed -like a policeman, and with his club Munchie tickled the bear on his -ear, and that shaggy creature was glad enough to run back to the woods, -taking his little stubby tail with him, so he didn't eat anybody. - -"My, it's a good thing, I didn't have on a real elephant's trunk," said -Uncle Wiggily, "or that bear would have bitten it off, for real trunks -are fastened on tight." - -"Yes, indeed," said Susie. So after everybody got over being scared -at the real bear they had a lot of fun and Uncle Wiggily took all the -children to a store and treated them to hot chocolate, and then he and -Sammie and Susie and Billie and Johnnie went home in the auto, and went -to bed. And Uncle Wiggily had another adventure next day. - -I'll tell you about it on the page after this, when, in case it doesn't -rain lightning bugs down the chimney, the story will be about Uncle -Wiggily going chestnutting. - - - - -STORY VI - -UNCLE WIGGILY GOES CHESTNUTTING - - -"Where are you going this morning, Uncle Wiggily?" asked Johnnie -Bushytail of the old gentleman rabbit the day after the Hallowe'en fun. - -"Oh, I am going to take a ride and see if I can find any more -adventures," said Uncle Wiggily, as he went out in the barn to -look and see if his auto had any holes in the rubber tires, -or if the what-you-may-call-it had gotten twisted around the -whose-this-cantankerum. - -"May I go with you?" asked Billie Bushytail, as he followed Uncle -Wiggily. "We don't want you to go away from our house so soon. We'd -like to have you pay us a nice, long visit." - -"Hum, well, I'll think about it," said Uncle Wiggily, slowly, and -careful-like. "I'll stay as long as I can. But as for you squirrel boys -going for a ride in my auto, why I guess you may come if your mamma -will let you. Yes, it's all ready for a spin," he went on, as he saw -that the tiddle-taddleum was on straight, and that the wheels had no -holes in them. - -"Oh, goody! Come on!" cried Billie to Johnnie; so into the house they -hurried to ask their mamma, and she said they might go. - -A little later, with the squirrel boys sitting in the back part of the -auto, away they went, Uncle Wiggily steering here and there and taking -care not to run over any puppy-dogs' tails or over any alligators' -noses. - -"Are you going off in the woods?" asked Johnnie, as he saw the old -gentleman rabbit steering toward the tree-forest. - -"I think I will," answered Uncle Wiggily. "I want to see Grandfather -Goosey Gander, and if we go through the woods that is the shortest way -to his house." - -"Then, perhaps, we can stop and gather some chestnuts," said Johnnie. -"There may be a few left that the other squirrels haven't yet picked -up, and I heard papa saying to mamma the other night that we need a -whole lot more than we have, so we wouldn't be hungry this winter." - -"Oh, yes; let's get chestnuts!" cried Billie. - -"All right," answered Uncle Wiggily, smiling, and then he had to turn -the auto to one side very quickly, for a fuzzy worm was hurrying along -the path, on her way to the grocery store, and Uncle Wiggily didn't -want to run over her, you know. - -"Thank you very much for not squashing me flat like a pancake," said -the worm, as she wiggled along. - -"Oh, pray do not mention such a little thing," said Uncle Wiggily, -politely. "I am always glad to do you a favor like that." - -Then he turned the handle so some more gasoline would squirt into the -fizzle-fozzleum, and away the automobile went faster than ever. - -Pretty soon they came to the woods, and Johnnie and Billie began -looking about for chestnut trees. Squirrels, you know, can tell a -chestnut tree a great way off, and soon Johnnie saw one. - -"Stop the auto here, Uncle Wiggily," said Johnnie, "and we'll see if -there are any chestnuts left." - -So the old gentleman rabbit did this, and, surely enough, there were -quite a few of the brown nuts lying on the ground, partly covered with -leaves. - -"Take a stick and poke around and you'll find more," said Billie to his -brother, and pretty soon all three of them, including Uncle Wiggily, -were picking up the nuts. Of course, the automobile couldn't pick up -any; it just had to stand still there, looking on. I guess you know -that, anyhow, but I just thought I'd mention it to make sure. - -"Oh, here is another tree over there!" cried Johnnie after a while, as -he ran to a large one. "It's got heaps and heaps of chestnuts under it, -too. I guess no squirrels or any chipmunks have been here. Oh, we can -get lots of nuts to put away for winter!" - -So the two squirrel boys filled their pockets with nuts, and so did -Uncle Wiggily, and they even put some in the automobile, though, of -course, the auto couldn't eat them, but it could carry them away. And -then, all of a sudden, Billie cried: - -"Oh, I know what let's do! Let's build a little fire and roast some of -the chestnuts. They're fine roasted." - -"I guess they are," said Uncle Wiggily, "and so we'll cook some, -though, as for me, I'd rather have a roast carrot or a bit of baked -apple." - -"Maybe we can find some apples to bake while we're roasting the -chestnuts," said Billie. "We'll look." - -They looked all around, and in a field not far from the woods they -found an apple tree and there were some apples on the ground under it. -They picked up quite a few and then they got some flat stones and made -a place to build a fire. - -Uncle Wiggily lighted it, for it isn't good for children to have -anything to do with matches, and soon the fire was blazing up very -nicely and was quite hot. - -"Now put the chestnuts down to roast on the hot stones," said the -rabbit gentleman, after a bit, to the two squirrel boys, "and I'll put -some apples on a sharp stick and hold them near the blaze to roast. -Why, boys! This is as much fun for me as a picnic!" he exclaimed -joyfully. - -But listen! Something is going to happen. All of a sudden, as they were -sitting quietly around the fire and wishing the apples and chestnuts -would hurry up and roast, all of a sudden a man came along with a gun. -He stood by the fence that went around the field where they had picked -up the apples, and that man said, in a grillery-growlery voice: - -"Ah, ha! So those squirrels and that rabbit have been taking my apples, -eh? I can smell 'em! Sniff! Snoof! Snuff! Well, I'll soon put a stop to -that! I'm glad I brought my gun along!" - -He was just aiming his gun at poor Uncle Wiggily and also at Johnnie -and Billie Bushytail, and the rabbit and the squirrels didn't know what -in the world to do, for they were too frightened to run, when, all -of a sudden there was a tremendously loud bang-bang in the fire and -something flew out of it and hit that man right on the end of his nose. - -"Ouch-ouchy!" the man cried. - -"Bang!" went something again, and this time it flew over and hit the -man on his left ear. Now what do you think of that? - -"Ouch! Ouchy!" the man yelled again. - -"Bang!" went the noise for the third shot, and this time the man was -hit on his other ear. - -"Ouch! Ouchy!" he cried again. "They're shooting at me. I'd better -run." And run away he did, taking his gun with him, and so Uncle -Wiggily and Johnnie and Billie weren't hurt. - -"My, that was a narrow escape," said Johnnie. "What was it that made -the bang noise, and hit the man?" - -"It was the roast chestnuts," said Uncle Wiggily, "I forgot to tell you -to make little holes in them before you roasted them or else they would -burst. And burst they did, and I'm glad of it, for they scared that -man. But I guess we had better be going now, for he may come back." - -So they took the apples, which were nicely roasted now, and they took -the chestnuts that were left and which hadn't burst, and away they went -in the auto and had a fine ride, before going home to bed. - -And now I'll say good-night, but in case the cow who jumped over the -moon doesn't kick our milk bottles off the back stoop, I'll tell you, -in the story after this one, about Uncle Wiggily and the pumpkin. - - - - -STORY VII - -UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE PUMPKIN - - -"Well," said Uncle Wiggily Longears one fine fresh morning, just after -the milkman had been around to leave some cream for the coffee, "I -think I will be traveling on again, Mrs. Bushytail." - -"Oh, don't go yet!" begged Billie, the boy squirrel. - -"No, you haven't made us a long visit at all," spoke his brother -Johnnie. "Can't you stay a long, long time?" - -"Well, I promised Jimmie Wibblewobble, the boy duck, that I would come -in my new automobile and pay him and his sisters a visit," said the old -gentleman, as he wiggled first his left ear and then the right one to -see if there were any pennies stuck in them. And he found two pennies, -one for Johnnie and one for Billie. - -"Oh, please stay with us a few more days. You can go visit the -Wibblewobble family next week," said Johnnie; "can't he, mother?" - -"Yes, I really think you might stay with us a little longer," said -Mrs. Bushytail, as she was mending some holes in Johnnie's stocking. -"Besides, I thought you might do me a favor to-day, Uncle Wiggily." - -"A favor!" exclaimed the old gentleman rabbit, making a low bow. "I am -always anxious to do you a favor if I can. What is it, Mrs. Bushytail?" - -"Why, I thought you and the boys might like to go off in the automobile -and see if you could find me a nice, large yellow pumpkin," said the -squirrel lady. - -"Oh, goody!" cried Billie. "I know what for--to make a Jack-o'-lantern -for us, eh, mamma?" - -"Sure!" cried Johnnie, jumping up and down because he was so happy, -"and we'll take it out after dark, Billie, and have some fun with Bully -the frog." - -"Oh, no, not a pumpkin for a Jack-o'-lantern," said Mrs. Bushytail. -"What I need a pumpkin for is to make some pies, and I thought you -might like to get one, Uncle Wiggily." - -"Yes, indeed, I would!" exclaimed the old gentleman rabbit. "I am very -fond of hunting pumpkins for pies, and also eating them after they are -baked. I like pumpkin pie almost as much as I do cherry pie. Come on, -boys, let's get into the auto and we'll go look for a pumpkin." - -"But don't go near that man's field who was going to shoot us the other -day because we took a few apples," said Billie, and Uncle Wiggily said -he wouldn't. So out they went to the barn, where the auto was kept, -leaving Mrs. Bushytail in the house mending stockings and getting ready -to bake the pumpkin pies. - -"Here we go!" cried Uncle Wiggily, when he had tickled the -tinkerum-tankerum with a feather to make it sneeze. - -Away went the auto, and as it rolled along on its big fat wheels Uncle -Wiggily sang a funny little song, like this: - - "Pumpkin pie is my delight, - I eat it morning, noon and night, - It's very good to make you grow, - That's why the boys all love it so. - - "If I could have my dearest wish, - I'd have some cherries in a dish. - And then a pumpkin pie, or two; - Of course, I'd save a piece for you. - - "Perhaps, if we are good and kind, - A dozen pumpkins we may find, - We'll bring them home and stew them up, - And then on pumpkin pie we'll sup." - -Well, after he had sung that song, Uncle Wiggily felt better. The auto -felt better also, I guess, for it ran along very fast, and, all of a -sudden, they came to a place where there was a field of pumpkins. Oh, -such lovely, large, golden yellow pumpkins as they were. - -"Hurray!" cried Johnnie. - -"Whoop-de-doodle-do!" cried Billie. - -"Dear me hum suz dud!" cried Uncle Wiggily. "It couldn't be better. But -I wonder if these pumpkins would mind if we took one?" - -"Not in the least! Not in the least!" suddenly cried a voice near the -fence, and looking over, Uncle Wiggily and the boys saw Grandfather -Goosey Gander, the old gentleman duck, standing there on one leg. "This -is my field of pumpkins," said Grandfather Goosey, "and you may take as -many as you like." Then he put down his other leg, which he had been -holding up under his feathers. - -"Thank you very much," spoke Uncle Wiggily politely. - -"And may we each have a pumpkin to make a Jack-o'-lantern?" asked -Billie. - -"To be sure," answered Grandfather Goosey, so Uncle Wiggily took a very -large pumpkin for a pie, and the boy squirrels took smaller ones for -their lanterns. Then Uncle Wiggily took a few more to be sure he would -have plenty, but none was as large as the first one. - -"I will send you some pumpkin pies when Mrs. Bushytail bakes them," -promised the old gentleman rabbit as he got ready to travel on with the -boys in the auto. - -"I wish you would," said Grandfather Goosey, "as I am very fond of -pumpkin pie with watercress salad on top." - -On and on went the auto, and Billie and Johnnie were talking about how -they would make their Jack-o'-lanterns and have fun, when all of a -sudden, out from the bushes at the side of the road, jumped the big, -bad savage wolf. - -"Hold on there!" he cried to Uncle Wiggily. "Stop, I want to see you!" - -"You want to bite me, I guess," said the old gentleman rabbit. "No, -sir! I'm not going to stop." - -"Then I'll just make you!" growled the wolf, and with that what did he -do but bite a hole in one of the big rubber tires, letting out all the -wind with a puff, so the auto couldn't go any more. - -"Now see what you've done!" cried Johnnie. "Yes, and it was a nice, new -auto, too," said Billie sorrowfully. - -"Fiddlesticks!" cried the wolf. "Double fiddlesticks. Don't talk to me. -I'm hungry. Get out of that auto, now, so I can bite you." - -"Oh! what shall we do?" whispered Johnnie. - -"Hush! Don't say a word. I'm going to play a trick on that wolf," said -Uncle Wiggily. Then he spoke to the savage creature, saying: "If you -are going to eat us up, I s'pose you will; but first would you mind -taking one of these pumpkins down to the bottom of the hill and leaving -it there for Mrs. Bushtail to make a pie of?" - -"Oh, anything to oblige you, since I am going to eat you, anyhow," -said the wolf. "Give me the pumpkin, but mind, don't try to run away, -while I'm gone for I can catch you. I'll come back and eat you up in a -minute." - -"All right," said Uncle Wiggily, giving the wolf a little pumpkin, and -pretending to cry, to show that he was afraid. But he was only making -believe, you see. Well, the wolf began to run down to the foot of the -hill. - -"Now, quick, boys!" suddenly cried Uncle Wiggily. "We'll roll the -biggest pumpkin down after him, and it will hit him and make him as -flat as a pancake, and then he can't eat us! Lively, now!" - -So, surely enough, they took the big pumpkin out of the auto and rolled -it down after the wolf. He heard it coming and he tried to get out of -the way, but he couldn't, because he was carrying another pumpkin, and -he stumbled and fell down, and the big pumpkin rolled right over him, -including his tail, and he was as flat as two pancakes, and part of -another one, and he couldn't even eat a toothpick. - -Then, Uncle Wiggily and the boys fixed the hole in the tire, pumped it -full of wind, and hurried on, and they had plenty of pumpkin left for -pies, and they were soon at the squirrel's house, safe and sound, so -that's the end of the story. - -But on the next page, if the milk bottle doesn't roll down off the -stoop and tickle the doormat, I'll tell you about Uncle Wiggily and the -pumpkin pie. - - - - -STORY VIII - -UNCLE WIGGILY'S JACK-O'-LANTERN - - -"I really think I must be traveling on to-day," said Uncle Wiggily, -the nice old gentleman rabbit, one bright morning when he had gone out -to the Bushtail barn to see if there were any slivers sticking in the -rubber tires of his automobile. "I have been here quite a while now, -boys, and I want to pay a visit to some of my other friends," he added. - -"Oh, please don't think of going!" begged Johnnie Bushtail, the boy -squirrel. - -"Please, can't you stay a little longer?" asked Billie, his brother. -"Johnnie and I are going to make Jack-o'-lanterns to-night from the -pumpkin you got us, and you may help if you like." - -"Oh, that will be fine," said Uncle Wiggily. "I suppose I really must -stay another night. But after that I shall have to be traveling along, -for I have many more friends to visit, and only to-day I had a letter -from Jimmie Wibblewobble, the duck boy, asking when I was coming to see -him." - -"Well, never mind about that. Let's get to work at making -Jack-o'-lanterns now and not wait for to-night," suggested Johnnie. -"We'll make three lanterns, one for Uncle Wiggily and one for each of -us." - -So they sat down on benches out in the back yard, where the pumpkin -seeds wouldn't do any harm, and they began to make the lanterns. And -this is how you do it. First you cut a little round hole in the top of -the pumpkin--the part where the stem is, you know. And then you scoop -out the soft inside where all the seeds are, and you can save the seeds -to make more pumpkins grow next year, if you like. - -Then, after you have the inside all scraped out clean, so that the -shell is quite thin, you cut out holes for the two eyes and a nose and -a mouth, and if you know how to do it you can cut make-believe teeth -in the Jack-o'-lantern's mouth. If you can't do it yourselves, perhaps -some of the big folks will help you. - -[Illustration] - -So that's how the squirrel boys and Uncle Wiggily made their -Jack-o'-lanterns, and when they were all finished they put a lighted -candle inside and say! My goodness! It looked just like a real person -grinning at you, only, of course, it wasn't. - -"Won't we have fun to-night!" exclaimed Johnnie as he finished his -lantern. - -"We certainly will!" said Billie, dancing a little jig. - -"What are you going to do with your lantern, Uncle Wiggily?" asked -Johnnie. - -"Oh, I don't know," answered the old gentleman rabbit. "I may take it -with me on my travels." - -Well, after the three lanterns were made, there was still plenty of -time before it would be dark, so Uncle Wiggily and the boys made some -more lanterns. And along came Lulu and Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble, -the duck children, and as they had no Jack-o'-lanterns of their own, -Johnnie gave Lulu one and Billie gave Alice one, and Uncle Wiggily -gave Jimmie one, and my! you should have seen how pleased those duck -children were! It was worth going across the street just to look at -their smiling faces. - -Well, pretty soon, after a while, not so very long, it was supper time, -and there was pumpkin pie and carrot sandwiches and lettuce salad, and -things like that for Uncle Wiggily, and nut cake and nut candy and nut -sandwiches for the squirrels. - -Uncle Wiggily was folding up his napkin, and he was just getting out of -his chair to go in the parlor, and read the paper with Mr. Bushytail, -when, all of a sudden, there came a knock on the front door. - -"My goodness! I wonder who that can be?" exclaimed Mrs. Bushytail. - -"I'll go see," spoke her husband, and when he went to the door there -was kind old Mrs. Hop Toad on the mat, wiping her feet. - -"Oh, is Uncle Wiggily Longears here?" asked Mrs. Toad. "If he is, tell -him to come back to the rabbit house at once, for Sammie Littletail is -very sick, and they can't get him to sleep, and the nurse thinks if he -heard one of Uncle Wiggily's stories he would shut his eyes and rest." - -"I'll come right away," said Uncle Wiggily, for he had gone to the -front door, also, and had heard what Mrs. Hop Toad had said. "Wait -until I get on my hat and coat and I'll crank up my automobile and go -see Sammie," said the rabbit gentleman. - -"I won't wait," said Mrs. Toad. "I'll hop on ahead, and tell them -you're coming. Anyhow it gives me the toodle-oodles to ride in an auto." - -So she hopped on ahead, and Uncle Wiggily was soon ready to start off -in his car. Just as he was going, Billie Bushytail cried out: - -"Oh, Uncle Wiggily, take a Jack-o'-lantern with you and maybe Sammie -will like that." - -So the old gentleman rabbit took one of the pumpkin lanterns up on the -seat with him, and away he went. And then, all at once, as he was going -through a dark place in the woods in his auto, the wind suddenly blew -out all his lanterns--all the oil lamps on the auto I mean, and right -away after that a policeman dog cried out: - -"Hey, there, Mr. Longears, you can't go on in your auto without a -light, you know. It's against the law." - -"I know it is," said Uncle Wiggily. "I'll light the lamps at once." But -when he tried to do it he found there was no more oil in them. - -"Oh, what shall I do?" he cried. "I'm in a hurry to get to Sammie -Littletail, who is sick, but I can't go in the dark. Ah! I have it. The -Jack-o'-lantern! I'll light the candle in that, and keep on going. Will -that be all right, Mr. Policeman?" - -"Sure it will," said the policeman dog, swinging his club, and wishing -he was home in bed. - -So Uncle Wiggily lighted the Jack-o'-lantern and it was real bright, -and soon the old gentleman rabbit was speeding on again. And, all of a -sudden out from the bushes jumped a burglar fox. - -"Hold on there!" he cried to Uncle Wiggily. "I want all your money." -And just then he saw the big pumpkin Jack-o'-lantern, with its staring -eyes and big mouth and sharp teeth, looking at him from the seat of the -auto, and the fox was so scared, thinking it was a giant going to catch -him, that he ran off in the woods howling, and he didn't bother Uncle -Wiggily a bit more that night. - -Then the old gentleman rabbit drove his auto on toward Sammie's house, -and he was soon there and he told Sammie a funny story and gave him the -Jack-o'-lantern, and the little rabbit boy was soon asleep, and in the -morning he was all better. - -So that's what the Jack-o'-lantern did for Uncle Wiggily and Sammie, -and now if you please you must go to bed, and on the page after this, -in case the basket of peaches doesn't fall down the cellar stairs and -break the furnace door all to pieces, I'll tell you about Uncle Wiggily -and the lazy duck. - - - - -STORY IX - -UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE LAZY DUCK - - -The day after Uncle Wiggily had scared the bad burglar fox with the -Jack-o'-lantern, the old rabbit gentleman and Lulu and Alice and Jimmie -Wibblewobble, the ducks, went for a little ride in the automobile. - -For it was Saturday, you see, and there was no school. So they went -along quite a distance over the hills and through the woods and fields, -for Uncle Wiggily's auto was a sort of fairy machine and could go -almost anywhere. - -Pretty soon they came to a little house beside the road, and in the -front yard was a nice pump, where you could get a drink of water. - -"I am very thirsty," said Uncle Wiggily to Jimmie. "I wonder if we -could get a drink here?" - -"Oh, yes," said Lulu, as she looked to see if her hair ribbon was on -straight; "a duck family lives here, and they will give you all the -water you want." - -Right after that, before Uncle Wiggily could get out of the auto to -pump some water, there came waddling out of the duckhouse a duck boy, -about as big as Jimmie. - -"How do you do?" said Uncle Wiggily, politely to this duck boy. "May we -get a drink of water here?" - -"Oh--um--er--oo--I--guess--so," said the duck boy slowly, and he -stretched out his wings and stretched out his legs and then he sat down -on a bench in the front yard and nearly went to sleep. - -"Why, I wonder what is the matter with him?" asked Uncle Wiggily. "Why -does he act so strangely, and speak so slow?" - -"I can tell you!" exclaimed Lulu, and she got down out of the auto and -picked up a stone. "That duck boy is lazy, that's what's the matter -with him. He never even wants to play. Why, at school he hardly ever -knows his lessons." - -"Oh, you surprise me!" said the old gentleman rabbit. "A lazy duck boy! -I never heard of such a thing. Pray what is his name?" - -"It's Fizzy-Whizzy," said Jimmie, who also knew the boy. - -"Why, what a strange name!" exclaimed the rabbit gentleman. "Why do -they call him that?" - -"Because he is so fond of fizzy-izzy soda water," said Alice. "Oh, -let's go along, Uncle Wiggily." - -"No," said the rabbit gentleman, slowly, "if this is a lazy duck boy he -should be cured. Laziness is worse than the measles or whooping cough, -I think. And as I am very thirsty I want a drink. Then I will think of -some plan to cure this boy duck of being lazy." - -So Uncle Wiggily went close up to the boy duck and called out loud, -right in his ear, so as to waken him: - -"Will you please get me a cup so I may get a drink of water?" - -"Hey? What's--that--you--said?" asked the lazy boy duck, slowly, -stretching out his wings. - -Uncle Wiggily told him over again, but that lazy chap just stretched -his legs this time and said: - -"Oh--I--am--too--tired--to--get--you--a--cup. -You--had--better--go--in--the--house--and--get--it--for--yourself," and -then he was going to sleep again. - -But, all of a sudden, his mother, who worked very hard at washing and -ironing, came to the door and said: - -"Oh, dear! If Fizzy-Wizzy hasn't gone to sleep again. Wake up at once, -Fizzy, and get me some wood for the fire! Quick." - -"Oh--ma--I am--too--tired," said Fizzy-Wizzy. -"I--will--do--it--to-morrow--um--ah--er--boo--soo!" and he was asleep -once more. - -"Oh, I never saw such a lazy boy in all my life!" exclaimed the duck -boy's mother, and she was very much ashamed of him. "I don't know what -to do." - -"Do you want me to make him better?" asked Uncle Wiggily. - -"Indeed I do, but I am afraid you can't," she said. - -"Yes I can," said Uncle Wiggily. "I'll come back here this evening and -I'll cure him. First let me get a drink of water and then I'll think of -a way to do it." So the duck lady herself brought out a cup so Uncle -Wiggily and Lulu and Alice and Jimmie could get a drink from the pump, -and all the while the lazy chap slept on. - -"How are you going to cure him, Uncle Wiggily?" asked Jimmie when they -were riding along in the auto once more. - -"I will show you," said the old gentleman rabbit. "And you children -must help me, for to be lazy is a dreadful thing." - -Well, that night, after dark, Uncle Wiggily took a lantern, and some -matches and some rubber balls and some beans and something else done up -in a package, and he put all these things in his auto. Then he and the -Wibblewobble children got in and they went to the house of the lazy boy -duck. - -"Is he in?" asked Uncle Wiggily of the boy's mamma. - -"Yes," she said in a whisper. - -"Well, when I throw a pebble against the kitchen window tell him to -come out and see who's here," went on the rabbit gentleman. Then he -opened the package and in it were four false faces, one of a fox, one -of a wolf, one of a bear and one was of an alligator. And Uncle Wiggily -put on the alligator false face, gave the bear one to Jimmie, the fox -one to Alice and the wolf one to Lulu. - -Then he gave Jimmie a handful of beans and he gave Alice a rubber ball -filled with water to squirt and Lulu the same. They knew what to do -with them. Then Uncle Wiggily built a fire and made some stones quite -warm, not warm enough to burn one, but just warm enough. - -These stones he put in front of the lazy duck boy's house and then he -threw a pebble against the window. - -"Go and see who is there," said the duck boy's mamma to him. - -"I--don't--want--to," the lazy chap was just saying, but he suddenly -became very curious and thought he would just take a peep out. And no -sooner had he opened the door and stepped on the warm stones than he -began to run down the yard, for he was afraid if he stood still he -would be burned. - -And then, as he ran, up popped Uncle Wiggily from behind the bushes, -looking like an alligator with the false face on. - -"Oh! Oh!" cried the lazy boy and he ran faster than ever. - -Then up jumped Jimmie, looking like a bear with the false face on, and -up popped Lulu looking like a wolf and Alice looking like a fox. - -"Oh! Oh!" cried the lazy boy, and he ran faster than ever before in his -life. - -Then Alice and Lulu squirted water at him from their rubber balls. - -"Oh! It's raining! It's raining!" cried the boy duck, and he ran faster -than before. - -Then Jimmie threw the beans at him and they rattled all over. - -"Oh! It's snowing and hailing!" cried the lazy boy, and he ran faster -than ever. And then Uncle Wiggily threw some hickory nuts at him, and -that lazy duck ran still faster than he had ever run in his life before -and ran back in the house. - -"Oh, mother!" he cried, "I've had a terrible time," and he spoke very -fast. "I'll never be lazy again." - -"I'm glad of it," she said. "I guess Uncle Wiggily cured you." - -And so the old gentleman rabbit had, for the duck boy was always ready -to work after that. Then Lulu and Alice and Jimmie went home in the -auto and went to bed, and that's where you must go soon. - -And if the pussy cat doesn't slip in the molasses, and fall down the -cellar steps, I'll tell you next about Uncle Wiggily helping Jimmie. - - - - -STORY X - -UNCLE WIGGILY HELPS JIMMIE - - -Old Percival, who used to be a circus dog, wasn't feeling very well. -Some bad boys had tied a tin can to his tail, and had thrown stones at -him and done other mean things. But Uncle Wiggily had come along and -driven the boys away, and Percival had come home in the automobile of -the old gentleman rabbit, and was given a nice warm place behind the -kitchen stove, where he could lie down. - -"But I don't feel a bit good," Percival said to Uncle Wiggily. "I don't -know whether it was the tin can the boys tied to my tail, or the leaves -they stuck on me, or the bone they put in my mouth or the molasses they -used, but I don't feel at all well." - -"Perhaps it is the epizootic," said Alice Wibblewobble, the duck girl, -as she untied her green hair ribbon and put on a pink one. - -"That may be it," said Percival, and he blinked his two eyes slow and -careful-like, so as not to get any dust in them. - -"Perhaps if I made you some dog-biscuit-soup it would make you feel -better," said Mrs. Wibblewobble. "I'll cook some right away." - -So she did that and Percival ate it, but still that night he didn't -feel much better, and the only trick he could do for the children was -to stand up on his tail, and make believe he was a soldier. But he -couldn't do that very long, and then he had to crawl back to his bed -behind the stove. - -"Poor Percival is getting old," said Mr. Wibblewobble. "He isn't the -lively dog he used to be when he showed Peetie and Jackie Bow Wow how -to do tricks in a circus parade." - -"No, indeed," said Uncle Wiggily, and then the old gentleman rabbit -played blind man's bluff with Lulu and Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble -until it was time to go to bed. - -Well, the next day poor old Percival wasn't any better and when the -duck children started for school their mamma told them to stop on their -way home and tell Dr. Possum to come and give Percival some medicine. - -"We will," said Jimmie, and just then they saw Uncle Wiggily putting -some gasoline in his automobile. - -"Oh, dear! You're not going away, are you, Uncle Wiggily?" asked Lulu -Wibblewobble as she picked up a stone and threw it even better than the -lazy boy duck could have done. - -"No," said the old gentleman rabbit, "I am just going for a little ride -to see Grandfather Goosey Gander, but I will be back here when you come -from school. Don't forget about telling Dr. Possum to come and see -Percival." - -So they said they wouldn't forget, and then the three duck children -hurried on to school so they wouldn't be late, and Uncle Wiggily -tickled the flinkum-flankum of his auto and away he went whizzing over -the fields and through the woods. - -Well, as it happened that day, Dr. Possum wasn't home, so all that -Jimmie and his sisters could do was to leave word for him to come and -see Percival as soon as the doctor got back. - -"I'll send him right away, just as soon as he comes in," said Dr. -Possum's wife. "Oh, I am so sorry for poor Percival." - -Well, when Lulu and Alice and Jimmie got home from school Dr. Possum -hadn't yet come to the duck house to see the sick dog, who was much -worse. And Uncle Wiggily hadn't come back from his automobile ride, -either. - -"Oh, dear!" exclaimed Mrs. Wibblewobble. "I don't know what to do! The -doctor ought to come, and Uncle Wiggily ought to be here. Perhaps Uncle -Wiggily has met with an accident and Dr. Possum had to attend to him -first." - -"Oh, I hope not, mamma," said Alice. - -"I know what I can do," said Jimmie, the boy duck. "I can hurry back to -Dr. Possum's house to see if he has come back yet. If he has I'll tell -him to please hurry here." - -"I think that would be a good idea," spoke Mrs. Wibblewobble. "Go -quickly, Jimmie, and here is a molasses cookie to eat on your way. -Hurry back and bring the doctor with you if you can." - -So Jimmie said he would, and off he started, eating the molasses cookie -that his mamma had baked. He was thinking how good it was, and wishing -it was larger when, all at once, he stepped on a sharp stone and hurt -his foot so that he couldn't walk. - -"Oh, dear!" cried Jimmie. "What shall I do? I can't go get Dr. Possum -for Percival now." - -Well, he was in great pain, and he was just wondering how he could send -word to the doctor when, all at once, he saw a pony-horse in the field -near by. - -"The very thing!" exclaimed Jimmie. "That is Munchie Trot, the pony -boy, and he'll let me ride to the doctor on his back." - -So Jimmie took a stick to use as a cane, and he managed to get right -close up beside the pony-horse, who was eating grass. - -"I'll surprise him," thought Jimmie. "I'll fly up on his back before he -sees me." - -So with his strong wings he flew up on the pony's back and he cried out: - -"Surprise on you, Munchie! Please gallop and trot with me to Dr. -Possum's so he can make Percival well." - -And then a funny thing happened. All at once Jimmie noticed that he was -on the back of a strange pony. It wasn't Munchie Trot at all! Jimmie -had made a mistake. Think of that! And the worst of it was that when he -flew so suddenly up on the pony's back Jimmie frightened him, and the -next instant the pony jumped over the fence and began running down the -road as fast as he could. - -"Oh! Stop! Stop!" cried Jimmie. "I'll fall off!" The duck boy had to -take hold of the pony's mane in his yellow bill, and he had to hold on -so he wouldn't fall off. Faster and faster ran the pony, trying to get -away from what was on his back, for he hadn't seen Jimmie fly up, and -he didn't know what it was. Maybe he thought it was a burglar fox, but -I'm not sure. - -Anyhow the pony went faster and faster, and though Jimmie cried as hard -as he could for him to stop the pony wouldn't do it. Jimmie was almost -falling off, and he thought surely he would be hurt, when, all of a -sudden, down the road, came Uncle Wiggily in his automobile. He saw -what was the matter. - -"Hold on, Jimmie!" cried the old gentleman rabbit. "Hold on, and I'll -be up to you in a minute. Then you can fly into my auto and be safe." - -Well, the pony was going fast, but the auto went faster, and it was -soon up beside the little galloping horsie. - -"Now jump, Jimmie!" called Uncle Wiggily, and the boy duck did so, -landing safely in the auto, and he wasn't hurt a bit. - -Then the pony galloped on until he looked back and saw it had only been -a duck on his back and then he was ashamed for having run away, and he -stopped and said he was sorry, so Jimmie forgave him. - -"Quick, we must go for Dr. Possum for Old Dog Percival," said Jimmie, -and he told Uncle Wiggily how the doctor hadn't yet come. Then Uncle -Wiggily told how he accidentally got a hole in one of his big rubber -tires or he would have been home sooner. - -"But it's a good thing I happened to come along to help you," he said -to Jimmie, and Jimmie thought so too. Then they went for Dr. Possum, -who had just come home, and they took him to Percival in the auto, and -Dr. Possum soon made Percival all well, and I'm glad of it. Then the -doctor cured Jimmie's sore foot, and everybody was happy, and I hope -you are. - -And next, if the dried leaves don't blow in my window and scare the -wallpaper so that it falls off, I'll tell you about Uncle Wiggily -helping Alice. - - - - -STORY XI - -UNCLE WIGGILY HELPS ALICE. - - -One day the postman bird flew down out of the sky and stopped in -front of the Wibblewobble duck house. Uncle Wiggily Longears, the old -gentleman rabbit, was out in front, cleaning some mud off his auto, for -he had run it very fast into a puddle of water the day he saved Jimmie -off the pony's back. - -"Does anybody named Alice Wibblewobble live here?" asked the postman -bird as he looked in his bag of letters. - -"Yes, Alice lives here," said Uncle Wiggily. - -"And does Lulu Wibblewobble?" - -"Yes, of course." - -"And Jimmie, too?" - -"Certainly," said the old gentleman rabbit. - -"Then this is the right house," said the postman bird as he blew his -whistle, like a canary, "and here is a letter for each of them." - -So he handed Uncle Wiggily three letters and then he flew up into the -air again, as fast as he could go, to deliver the rest of the mail. - -"Hum! I wonder who can be writing to Lulu and Alice and Jimmie?" said -Uncle Wiggily, as he looked at the letters. "Well, I'll take them in -the house. They look to me like party invitations; and I wonder why -I didn't get one? But I suppose the young folks don't want an old -rheumatic uncle around any more. Ah, well, I'm getting old--getting -old," and he went slowly into the house, feeling a bit sad. - -"Here are some letters for you, children," he called to Lulu and Alice -and Jimmie. "The bird postman just brought them." - -"Oh, fine!" cried the children, and they opened them all at once with -their strong yellow bills. - -"Goodie!" cried Lulu as she read hers. "Jennie Chipmunk is going to -have a party, and I'm invited." - -"So am I," cried Alice. - -"And I," added Jimmie. - -"I thought they were party invitations," said Uncle Wiggily, sort of -sad and thoughtful-like. "When is it?" - -"To-night," said Lulu. - -"Then we must hurry and get ready," said Alice. "I must iron out some -of my hair ribbons so they will be nice and fresh." - -"Oh, that's just like you girls," cried Jimmie. "You have to primp and -fuss. I can be ready in no time, just by washing my face." - -"Oh!" cried Lulu and Alice together. "Make him put on a clean collar, -anyhow, mamma." - -"Yes, I'll do that," agreed Jimmie. - -Well, pretty soon they were all getting ready to go to the party, and -Uncle Wiggily went back to finish cleaning his auto and he was wishing -he could go. But you just wait and see what happens. - -Pretty soon it became night and then it was time for the party. Lulu -and Jimmie were all ready, but it took Alice such a long time to get -her hair fixed the way she wanted it, and to get just the kind of hair -ribbon that suited her, that she wasn't ready. You see, she had so many -kinds of hair ribbons and she kept them all in a box, and really she -didn't know just which one to take. First she picked out a red one, -and she didn't like that, and then she picked out a blue one, and she -didn't like that, and then she picked up a pink one, and then a green, -and then a brown, and finally a skilligimink colored one, but none -suited her. - -"Hurry, Alice," called Lulu, "or you'll be late." - -"Oh, you can go on ahead and I'll catch up to you and Jimmie," said -Alice, trying another hair ribbon. - -"All right," they answered, and they started off. Mr. and Mrs. -Wibblewobble had gone across the street to pay a little visit to Mr. -and Mrs. Duckling, and so Uncle Wiggily and Alice were all alone in the -house. - -"You had better hurry, Alice," said the old gentleman rabbit as he was -reading the evening paper. - -"Oh, I don't know what to do!" she cried. "I can't decide which hair -ribbon to wear." - -"Wear them all," called Uncle Wiggily with a laugh, but, of course, -Alice couldn't do that, and she was in despair, which means that she -didn't know what to do. - -She laid all the ribbons back in the box, and she was just going to -shut her eyes, and pick out the first one she could reach, and wear -that whether she liked it or not, for she didn't want to be late to the -party. And then, all of a sudden, in through the open window of her -room the old skillery-scalery alligator put his long nose and he cried: - -"Hair ribbons! I must have hair ribbons! Give me hair ribbons!" - -And then what do you think he did? Why, he grabbed up the whole -box full of Alice's lovely hair ribbons, and before she could say -"scootum-scattum," if she had wanted to, that skillery-scalery -alligator ran away with them in his mouth, taking his double-jointed -tail with him. - -"Oh!" cried Alice. "Oh! Oh!" and she almost lost her breath, she was so -surprised. - -"What is it?" cried Uncle Wiggily, running up to her room. - -"The alligator! He has taken my hair ribbons. Quick, run after him, -dear Uncle Wiggily!" - -"I will!" exclaimed the brave old gentleman rabbit and out of the house -he hurried, but the 'gator with the double-jointed tail had completely -gone, and the rabbit gentleman couldn't catch him. - -"Oh, what ever shall I do?" cried Alice, when Uncle Wiggily came back. -"I have no hair ribbon, and I can't go to the party!" - -Well, Uncle Wiggily thought for a moment. He didn't tell Alice that she -should have hurried more and worn a pink ribbon, and then the accident -wouldn't have happened. No, he didn't say anything like that; but he -said: - -"I can help you, Alice. Down in the yard is some long grass, green, -with white stripes in it. They call it ribbon grass. I will get some -for a hair ribbon for you." - -"Oh, thank you, so much!" said Alice. So Uncle Wiggily quickly went -down, pulled some of the ribbon grass and helped Alice tie it in her -feathers. And she looked too cute for anything, really she did. - -"Now, quick, run and catch up to Jimmie and Lulu, and go to the party -and have a good time," said Uncle Wiggily, and Alice did. And what do -you think? A little while after that up to the duck-house drove Sammie -Littletail in a pony cart. - -"Oh, Uncle Wiggily!" cried Sammie, "Jennie Chipmunk was so flustrated -about her party that she forgot to send you an invitation. But she -wants you very much, so I've come to take you to it. Come along with -me!" - -Then Uncle Wiggily was very glad, for he liked parties as much as you -do, and he jumped into the cart with Sammie and they went to the party -and had a lovely time. And the next day Uncle Wiggily went out in his -auto, and he made the alligator give back all of Alice's hair ribbons, -and none of them was lost or soiled the least bit, I'm glad to say. - -Now, no more at present, if you please, but if the picture book doesn't -read about the sandman and go to sleep on the front porch, I'll tell -you next about Uncle Wiggily and the doll doctor. - - - - -STORY XII - -UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE DOLL DOCTOR - - -"Now, I wonder where I will go to-day?" said Uncle Wiggily, the old -gentleman rabbit to himself, as he went along, in his automobile, -turning around the corner by an old black stump-house, where lived a -nice owl school teacher lady. "I wonder where I had better go? I have -it! I'll call on Grandfather Goosey Gander and play a game of Scotch -checkers!" and off he went. - -It was generally that way with Uncle Wiggily. He would start off -pretending he had no place in particular to go, but he would generally -end up at Grandpa Goosey's house. - -There the old rabbit gentleman and the old duck gentleman would sit and -play Scotch checkers and eat molasses cookies with cabbage seeds on -top, and they would talk of the days when they were young, and could -play ball and go skating, and do all of those things. - -But this time Uncle Wiggily never got to Grandfather Goosey's house. As -he was going along in the woods, all of a sudden he came to a little -house that stood under a Christmas tree, and on this house was a sign -reading: - -DR. MONKEY DOODLE. SICK DOLLS MADE WELL. - -"Ha! That is rather strange!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily. "I never knew -there was a doll doctor here. He must have moved in only lately. I must -look into this!" - -So the rabbit gentleman went up to the little house, and, as he came -nearer he heard some one inside exclaiming: - -"Oh, I'll never get through to-day, I know I won't! Oh, the trouble I'm -in! Oh, if I only had some one to help me!" - -"My! What is that!" cried Uncle Wiggily, stopping short. "Perhaps I am -making a mistake. That may be a trap! No, it doesn't look like a trap," -he went on, as he peered all about the little house and saw nothing -dangerous. - -Then the voice cried again: - -"Oh, I am in such trouble! Will no one help me?" - -[Illustration] - -Now Uncle Wiggily was always on the lookout to help his animal friends, -but he did not know who this one could be. - -"Still," said the rabbit gentleman to himself, "he is in trouble. Maybe -a mosquito has bitten him. I'm going to see." - -So Uncle Wiggily marched bravely up to the little house under the -Christmas tree, and knocked on the door. - -"Come in!" cried a voice. "But if you're a little animal girl, with -a sick doll, or one that needs mending, you might as well go away -and come back again. I'm head-over heels in work, and I'll never get -through. In fact I can't work at all. Oh, such trouble as I am in!" - -"Well, maybe I can help you," said Uncle Wiggily. "At any rate I have -no doll that needs mending." - -So into the little house he went, and what a queer sight he saw! There -was Dr. Monkey Doodle, sitting on the floor of his shop, and scattered -all about him were dolls--dolls--dolls! - -All sorts of dolls--but not a good, whole, well doll in the lot. Some -dolls had lost their wigs, some had swallowed their eyes, others had -lost a leg, or both arms, or a foot. - -One poor doll had lost all her sawdust, and she was as flat as a -pancake. Another had dropped one of her shoe button eyes, and a new eye -needed to be sewed in. One doll had stiff joints, which needed oiling, -while another, who used to talk in a little phonograph voice, had -caught such a cold that she could not speak or even whisper. - -"My, what sort of a place is this?" asked Uncle Wiggily, in surprise. - -"It is the doll hospital," said Dr. Monkey Doodle. "Think of it! All -these dolls to fix before night, and I can't touch a one of them!" - -"Why must all the dolls be fixed to-night?" the rabbit gentleman wanted -to know. - -"Because they are going to a party," explained Dr. Monkey Doodle. -"Susie Littletail, the rabbit is giving a party for all the little -animal girls, and every one is going to bring her doll. But all the -dolls were ill, or else were broken, and the animal children brought -them all to me at once, so that I am fairly overwhelmed with work, if -you will kindly permit me to say so," remarked the monkey doctor. - -"Of course, I'll let you say so," said Uncle Wiggily. "But, if you will -kindly pardon me, why don't you get up and work, instead of sitting in -the middle of the floor, feeling sorry for yourself?" - -"True! Why do I not?" asked the monkey doctor. "Well, to be perfectly -plain, I am stuck here so fast that I can't move. One of the dolls, I -think it was Cora Ann Multiplicationtable, upset the pot of glue on -the floor. I came in hurriedly, and, not seeing the puddle of glue, I -slipped in it. I fell down, I sat right in the glue, and now I am stuck -so fast that I can't get up. - -"So you see that's why I can't work on the broken dolls. I can't move! -And oh, what a time there'll be when all those animal girls come for -their dolls and find they're not done. Oh, what a time I'll have!" - -And the monkey doctor tried to pull himself up from the glue on the -floor, but he could not--he was stuck fast. - -"Oh, dear!" he cried. - -"Now don't worry!" spoke Uncle Wiggily kindly. "I think I can help you." - -"Oh, can you!" cried Dr. Monkey Doodle. "And will you?" - -"I certainly will," said Uncle Wiggily, tying his ears in a bowknot so -they would not get tangled in the glue. - -"But how can you help me?" asked the monkey doctor. - -"In the first place," went on the rabbit gentleman. "I will pour -some warm water all around you on the glue. That will soften it, and -by-and-by you can get up. And while we are waiting for that you shall -tell me how to cure the sick dolls and how to mend the broken ones and -I'll do the best I can." - -"Fine!" cried Dr. Monkey Doodle, feeling happier now. - -So Uncle Wiggily poured some warm water on the glue that held the poor -monkey fast, taking care not to have the water too hot. Then Uncle -Wiggily said: - -"Now, we'll begin on the sick dolls. Who's first?" - -"Take Sallie Jane Ticklefeather," said the monkey. "She needs some -mucilage pills to keep her hair from sticking up so straight. She -belongs to a little girl named Rosalind." - -So Uncle Wiggily gave Sallie Jane Ticklefeather some mucilage pills. -Then he gave another doll some sawdust tea and a third one some -shoe-button pudding--this was the doll who only had one eye--and soon -she was all cured and had two eyes. - -And then such a busy time as Uncle Wiggily had! He hopped about that -little hospital, sewing arms and legs and feet on the dolls that had -lost theirs. He oiled up all the stiff joints with olive oil, and one -doll, whose eyes had fallen back in her head, Uncle Wiggily fixed as -nicely as you please. Only by mistake he got in one brown eye and one -blue one, but that didn't matter much. In fact, it made the doll all -the more stylish. - -"Oh, but there are a lot more dolls to fix!" cried the monkey doctor. - -"Never mind," said Uncle Wiggily. "You will soon be loose from the -glue, and you can help me!" - -"Oh, I wish I were loose now!" cried the monkey. - -He gave himself a tremendous tug and a pull, Uncle Wiggily helping him, -and up he came. Then how he flew about that hospital, fixing the dolls -ready for the party. - -"Hark!" suddenly called Uncle Wiggily. - -"It's the girl animals coming for their dolls," said the monkey. "Oh, -work fast! Work fast!" - -Outside the doll hospital Susie Littletail, the rabbit girl, and Alice -and Lulu Wibblewobble, the duck girls, and all their friends were -calling: - -"Are our dolls mended? Are they ready for us?" - -"Not yet, but soon," answered Uncle Wiggily, and then he and the monkey -worked so fast! Dolls that had lost their heads had new ones put on. -The doll that had spilled all her sawdust was filled up again, plump -and fat. One boy soldier doll, who had lost his gun was given a new -one, and a sword also. And the phonograph doll was fixed so that she -could sing as well as talk. - -"But it is almost time for the party!" cried Susie Littletail. - -"Just a minute!" called Uncle Wiggily. - -"There is one more doll to fix." Then he quickly painted some red -cheeks on a poor little pale doll, who had had the measles, and in a -moment she was as bright and rosy again as a red apple. Then all the -dolls were fixed, and the girl animals took them to a party and had a -fine time. - -"Hurray for Uncle Wiggily!" cried Susie Littletail, and all the others -said the same thing. - -"He certainly was kind to me," spoke Dr. Monkey Doodle, as he cleaned -the glue up off the floor. And that's all there is to this story, but -in the next one, if the goldfish doesn't bite a hole in his globe and -let all the molasses run over the tablecloth, I'll tell you about Uncle -Wiggily and the flowers. - - - - -STORY XIII - -UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE FLOWERS - - -One Saturday, when there was no school, Charley Chick was playing -soldier in the chicken coop, and beating the drum that Uncle Wiggily -had given him, for Christmas. - -And Arabella, who was Charley's sister, was playing with her talking -doll. The little chicken girl was teaching the doll to recite that -piece about "Once a trap was baited, with a piece of cheese." But the -doll couldn't seem to get the verses right. She would say it something -like this: - - "Once a trap was baited, - With a twinkling star. - 'Twas Christmas eve and Santa Claus - Was coming from afar. - - "A little drop of water, - Was in Jack Horner's pie - When Mary lost her little lamb - Old Mother Goose did cry." - -"Oh, you'll never get that right!" exclaimed Arabella. "Uncle Wiggily, -can't you make my talking doll learn to speak pieces right? She gets -them all mixed up." - -"I'll try," said the old gentleman rabbit, and he was just telling the -doll how to recite a poem about little monkey-jack upon a stick of -candy, and every time he took a bite it tasted fine and dandy. Well, -the doll had learned one verse, when, all at once, there came a knock -on the door, and there stood a telegraph messenger boy, with a telegram -for Uncle Wiggily. - -"Oh, something has happened!" exclaimed Mrs. Chick. "I am so nervous -whenever telegrams come." - -"Wait until I read it," said the old gentleman rabbit, and when he had -read it he said: "It is from Aunt Lettie, the old lady goat. She has -the epizootic very badly, from having eaten some bill-board pictures -of a snowstorm, which made her catch cold, and she wants to know if -I can't come over to see her, and tell Dr. Possum to bring her some -medicine. Of course I will. I'll start off at once." - -So Uncle Wiggily started off, in his automobile, and on his way to see -the old lady goat he stopped at the doctor's house, and Dr. Possum -promised to come as soon as he could, and cure the old lady goat. - -"Then I'll go on ahead," spoke Uncle Wiggily, "and tell her you are -coming." So he hurried on, with his long ears flapping to and fro, -and he hadn't gone very far before he came to a shop where a man had -flowers to sell--roses and violets and pinks and all lovely blossoms -like that. - -"The very thing!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily, as he saw the pretty posies. -"Sick persons like flowers, and I'll take some to Aunt Lettie. They may -cheer her up." So he bought a large and kept on toward the old lady -goat's house. - -Well, he hadn't gone very far before, all at once, as he was going -around the corner by the prickly briar bush, that had berries on it in -the summer time, all at once, I say, out jumped a big black bear. - -At first Uncle Wiggily thought it was a good bear, and he stopped the -auto to shake paws with him. But, all at once, he saw that it was a bad -bear, whom he had never seen before. - -"Oh, my!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily, surprised-like. "I--I guess I have -made a mistake. I don't know you. I beg your pardon." - -"You don't need to do that," growled the bear. "You'll soon know me -well enough. You and I are going to be very well acquainted soon. You -come with me," and with that he grabbed hold of the old gentleman -rabbit and marched off with him, pulling him right out of the auto. - -"Where are you taking me?" asked Uncle Wiggily, trying to be brave, and -not shiver or shake. - -"To my den," answered the bear in a grillery-growlery voice. "I haven't -had my Christmas or New Year's dinner yet, and here it is the middle of -January. Bur-r-r-r-r-r-r! Wow!" - -"Oh, what a savage bear," exclaimed Uncle Wiggily. "What makes you so -cross?" - -"Just look at my feet and you'll see why," answered the bear, and Uncle -Wiggily looked, and as true as I'm telling you, there were a whole lot -of walnut shells fast on the bear's feet. "That's enough to make any -one cross," said the bear. "I stepped in these shells that some one -threw out of their window after Christmas, and they stuck on so tight -that I can't get them off. Talk about corns! These are worse than any -corns. I have to walk on my tiptoes all the while, and I'm so cross -that I could eat a hot cross bun and never know it. Bur-r-r-r-r! Wow! -Woof!" - -"Oh, my!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily. "Then I guess it's all up with me," -and he felt quite sad-like. - -"You may well say that!" growled the bear. "Come along!" and he almost -pulled Uncle Wiggily head over paws. "What have you in that paper?" -asked the bear, as he saw the bag of flowers in Uncle Wiggily's paw. - -"Some blossoms for poor sick Aunt Lettie!" answered the rabbit -gentleman. "Poor, sick Aunt Lettie----" - -"Bur-r-r-r-r-r! Wow! Woof! Bah! Don't talk to me about sick goats!" -growled the bear. "I'm sicker than any goat of these walnut shells on -my feet. Bur-r-r-r-r! Wow! Woof!" - -And then Uncle Wiggily thought of something. Gently opening the paper -he took out one nice, big, sweet-smelling rose and handed it to the -bear, saying nothing. - -"Bur-r-r-r-r! Wow! What's this?" growled the bear, and before he knew -what he was doing he had taken the rose in his big paws. And then, -before he knew, the next thing, he was smelling of it. - -And, as he smelled the sweet perfume, he seemed to think he was in the -summer fields, all covered with flowers, and as he looked at the rose -it seemed to remind him of the time when he was a little bear, and -wasn't bad, and didn't say such things as "Bur-r-r-r-r!" "Wow!" And -then once more he smelled of the perfume in the flower, and he seemed -to forget the pain of the walnut shells on his feet. - -"Oh, Uncle Wiggily!" exclaimed the bear, and tears came into his -blinkery-inkery eyes, and rolled down his black nose. "I'm sorry I was -bad to you. This flower is so lovely that it makes me want to be good. -Run along, now, before I change my mind and get bad again." - -"First let me help you take those walnut shells off your paws," said -the rabbit gentleman, and he did so, prying them off with a stick, and -then the bear felt ever so much better and he hurried to his den, still -smelling the beautiful rose. So you see flowers are sometimes good, -even for bears. - -Then Uncle Wiggily hurried on to Aunt Lettie's house with the rest of -the bouquet, and when she saw it she was quite some better, and when -Dr. Possum gave her some medicine she was all better, and she thought -Uncle Wiggily was very brave to do as he had done to the bear. - -And on the next page, in case the eggbeater doesn't hit the rolling pin -and make the potato masher fall down in the ice cream cone, I'll tell -you about Uncle Wiggily and Susie's doll. - - - - -STORY XIV - -UNCLE WIGGILY AND SUSIE'S DOLL - - -"Well, I see you are going out for another ride in your auto," remarked -Mrs. Bow Wow, the puppy dog lady, to Uncle Wiggily, one morning, after -Peetie and Jackie had gone to school. "Where are you bound for now?" - -"Oh, no place in particular," he said. "I just thought I would take a -ride for my health." - -You see the rabbit gentleman had come to pay the dog family a visit. - -"I should think you'd stay in when it snows," went on the doggie lady. -"You seem always to be out in a snowstorm," for it was snowing quite -hard just then. - -"I love the snow," said the old gentleman rabbit. "I like cold weather, -for then my thick fur coat keeps me much warmer than in the summer -time. And I like the snow--I like to see it come down, and feel it blow -in my face and make my auto go through the drifts." - -"Well, be careful you don't get stuck in any drifts and freeze fast," -said Mrs. Bow Wow, as she began washing the breakfast dishes. - -"I'll try not to," promised Uncle Wiggily, and then he put some oil -on his auto, and gave it a drink of warm water (for autos get thirsty -sometimes), and away the old gentleman rabbit rode through the -snowstorm. - -"I guess I'll go call on Aunt Lettie, the old lady goat, to-day," he -thought as he went through a big snowdrift, scattering the snow on -both sides like an electric-car snow plow. "I haven't seen Aunt Lettie -in some time, and she may be ill again." For this was some time after -Uncle Wiggily had brought her the flowers. - -Well, pretty soon he was at the old lady goat's house, and, surely -enough she had been ill again. She had eaten some red paper, off the -outside of a tomato can, one day right after Christmas, and the paper -didn't have the right kind of stickumpaste on it, so Aunt Lettie was -taken ill on that account. - -"But I'm much better now," she said to Uncle Wiggily, "and I'm real -glad you called. Come in and I'll give you a hot cup of old newspaper -tea." - -"Um, I don't know as I care for that," said the old gentleman rabbit, -making his nose twinkle like a star on a frosty night. - -"Oh, I'm surprised to hear you say that," spoke Aunt Lettie, -sorrowful-like. "Newspaper tea is very good, especially with -cream-stickum-mucilage in it. But never mind, I'll give you some carrot -tea," and she did, and she and Uncle Wiggily sat and talked about old -times, and the fun Nannie and Billie Goat used to have, until it was -time for the old gentleman rabbit to go back home. - -School was out as he went along in his auto. He could tell that because -he met so many of the animal children. And he gave Peetie and Jackie -Bow Wow and Johnnie and Billie Bushtail a ride toward home. But before -they got there, all of a sudden, as the four animal children were in -the auto, and Uncle Wiggily was making it go through a snowdrift, all -of a sudden, I say the old gentleman rabbit turned around a corner, and -there was Susie Littletail, the little rabbit girl, standing in front -of a big heap of snow. - -And she was crying very hard, her tears falling down, and making little -holes in the snow, and she was poking into the drift with a long stick. - -"Why, Susie!" asked Uncle Wiggily, "whatever is the matter?" - -"Oh, my doll! My lovely, big, new Christmas doll!" cried Susie. "I had -her to school with me, for we are learning to sew in our class, and I -was making my dollie a new dress, and--and--" and then poor Susie cried -so hard that she couldn't talk. - -"Don't tell me some one took your doll away from you!" exclaimed Uncle -Wiggily. - -"If they did I'll go after them and get it back for you!" cried Jackie -Bow Wow. - -"So will I!" said Peetie and Billie and Johnnie. - -"No, it isn't that," spoke the little rabbit girl. "But as I was -walking along, with my dollie in my arms, all of a sudden she slipped -out, fell into this big snowbank, and I can't find her! She's all -covered up. Boo hoo! Hoo boo!" - -"Oh, don't take on so," said Uncle Wiggily kindly. "We will all help -you hunt for your dollie; won't we, boys?" - -"Sure!" cried Peetie and Jackie and Billie and Johnnie. - -So they all got sticks and poked in the snow bank, Uncle Wiggily poking -harder than anybody, but it was of no use. They couldn't seem to find -that lost doll. - -"She must be very deep under the snow!" said Uncle Wiggily. - -"Oh, I'll never see her again!" cried Susie. "My big, beautiful -Christmas doll. Boo-hoo! Hoo-boo!" - -"You can get her when the snow melts," spoke Peetie Bow Wow, as he -scratched away at the drift with his paws. - -"Yes, but then the wax will be all melted off her face, and she won't -look like anything," murmured Susie, sad-like. - -"Wait; I have a plan," said Uncle Wiggily. "There is a fan, like an -electric one, in the front part of my auto to keep the water cool. I'll -make that fan blow the snow away and we'll get your doll." - -So he tried that, making the fan whizz around like a boy's top, but, -though it blew some snow away, the doll couldn't be found. - -"Oh, I'll never see my big, beautiful doll again!" cried Susie. - -"Oh, whatever is the matter?" asked a voice, and, turning around, they -all saw the big, black, woolly bear standing there. At first the animal -children were frightened until Uncle Wiggily said: - -"Oh, that bear won't hurt us. I once helped him get some walnut shells -off his paws, so he is a friend of mine." - -"Of course I am," said the bear. "What is the trouble?" Then they told -him about Susie's doll being under the drift, and the bear went on: -"Don't worry about that. My paws are just made for digging in the snow. -I'll have that doll for you in a jiffy, which is very quick." So with -his paws he began digging in the snow. - -My! how he did make the snow fly, and he blew it away with his strong -breath. Faster and faster flew the snow, and in about a minute it was -all scraped away, and there was Susie's doll safe and sound. And she -was sleeping with her eyes shut. - -"Oh, you darling!" Susie cried, clasping the doll in her arms. - -"Did you mean me?" asked the bear, laughing. - -"Yes, I guess I did!" said Susie, also laughing, and she gave the bear -a nice little kiss on the end of his black nose. - -Then everybody was happy and the bear went back to his den and Uncle -Wiggily took the children and the doll home, and that's all I can tell -you now, if you please. - -But, if the rocking horse doesn't run away and upset the milk pitcher -down in the salt cellar and scare the furnace so that it goes out, I'll -tell you in the story after this one, about Uncle Wiggily on roller -skates. - - - - -STORY XV - -UNCLE WIGGILY ON ROLLER SKATES - - -"Well, where are you going this morning?" asked Jimmie Wibblewobble, -the duck boy, as he looked out of the front door of his house, and saw -Uncle Wiggily, the old gentleman rabbit, putting some gasoline in his -automobile. - -"Oh, I am going to take a little ride out in the country," said Uncle -Wiggily. "I am going to see if I can find an adventure. Nothing has -happened since we found Susie's doll. I must have excitement. It keeps -me from thinking about my rheumatism. So I am going to look for an -adventure, Jimmie." - -"I wish I could come," said the little duck boy. - -"I wish you could too," said his uncle. "But you must go to school. -Some Saturday I'll take you with me, and we may find an adventure for -each of us." - -"And for us girls, too?" asked Lulu and Alice as they came out, -all ready to go to school. Alice had just finished tying her -sky-yellow-green hair ribbon into two lovely bow knots. - -"Yes, for you duck girls, too," said Uncle Wiggily. "But I will be back -here when you come from school, and if anything happens to me I'll tell -you all about it." - -So he kept on putting gasoline in his automobile until he had the -tinkerum-tankerum full, and then he tickled the hickory-dickory-dock -with a mucilage brush, and he was all ready to start off and look for -an adventure. - -So Lulu and Alice and Jimmie went on to school, and Uncle Wiggily rode -along over the fields and through the woods and up hill and down hill. - -Pretty soon, as he was riding along, he heard a funny little noise -in the bushes. It was a sad, little, squeaking sort of noise and at -first the old gentleman rabbit thought it was made by something on his -automobile that needed oiling. Then he looked over the side and there, -sitting under an old cabbage leaf, was a little mousie girl, and it was -she who was crying. - -"Oh, ho!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily, "is that you, Squeaky-eaky?" for he -thought it might be the little cousin-mouse who lived with Jollie and -Jillie Longtail, as I have told you in other stories. - -"No, I am not Squeaky-eaky," said the little mouse girl, "but I am -cold and hungry and I don't know what to do or where to go. Oh, dear! -Boo-hoo!" - -"Never mind," said Uncle Wiggily kindly. "I will take you in my auto, -and I'll bring you to the house where the Longtail children live, and -they'll take care of you." - -"Oh, goody!" cried the little girl mouse. "Thank you so much. Now I am -happy." So Uncle Wiggily took her in the nice, warm automobile. - -Then he twisted the noodleum-noddleum until it sneezed, and away the -auto went through the woods again. And, all of a sudden, just as Uncle -Wiggily came to a big black stump, out jumped the burglar bear with -roller skates on his paws. - -"Hold on there!" the bear cried to the old gentleman rabbit, and he -poked a stick in the auto wheels, so they couldn't go around any more. -"Hold on, if you please, Mr. Rabbit. I want you." - -"What for?" asked Uncle Wiggily. - -"I want you to come to supper," said the burglar bear. - -"Your supper or my supper?" asked Uncle Wiggily, politely. - -"My supper, of course," said the burglar bear. "I am going to have -rabbit pot-pie to-night, and you are going to be both the rabbit and -the pie. Come, now, get out of that auto. I want to ride in it before I -bite you." - -Well, of course, Uncle Wiggily felt pretty badly, but there was no help -for it. He had to get out, and then the burglar bear, taking off his -roller skates, got up into the automobile. - -"Oh, what nice soft cushions!" exclaimed the bear as he sank down on -them. Then he took hold of the turnip steering wheel in his claws and -twisted it. "I shall have lots of fun riding in this auto, after I -gobble you up," said the bear, looking at the rabbit with his blinky -eyes. "I must learn to run it. I think I'll take a little ride before I -have my supper. But don't you dare run away, for I can catch you." - -Then, to make sure Uncle Wiggily couldn't get away, the bear took -the old rabbit gentleman's crutch away from him and Uncle Wiggily's -rheumatism was so severe, which means painful, that he couldn't walk a -step without his crutch. So there was no use for him to try to run away. - -[Illustration] - -Well, the bear knew how to run the auto, it seems, and he started to -take a little ride in it. Uncle Wiggily felt pretty sad because he was -going to be gobbled up and lose his auto at the same time. - -All at once, when the bear in the auto was some distance off in the -woods, Uncle Wiggily heard a little voice speaking to him. - -"Hey, Uncle Wiggily," the voice said, "I know how you can get the best -of that bear!" - -"How?" asked Uncle Wiggily, eagerly. - -"Here are his roller skates," said the voice, and it was the little -mousie girl who was speaking. She had quietly jumped out of the auto. -"Put on his roller skates," said the mousie, "and skate down the hill -until you see a policeman dog. Then tell the policeman dog to come and -arrest the bear. He'll do it, and then you'll get your auto back. You -can go on roller skates even if you have rheumatism, can't you?" - -"I guess so," said the rabbit. "I'll try." So he put on the skates -while the burglar bear was making the auto go around in a circle in the -woods, and that bear was having a good time. All at once Uncle Wiggily -skated away. First he went slowly, and then he went faster and faster -until he was just whizzing along. And then, at the foot of the hill, he -found the policeman dog. - -"Oh, please come and arrest the burglar bear for me?" begged Uncle -Wiggily. - -"To be sure I will," said the policeman dog. So he put on his -roller skates, and skated back with Uncle Wiggily to where the bear -was still in the auto. The policeman dog hid behind a stump. The bear -stopped the auto in front of Uncle Wiggily and got out. - -"Well," said the burglar bear, smacking his lips, "I guess it's supper -time now. I'm going to eat you. Come on and be my pot-pie!" And he made -a grab for the old gentleman rabbit. - -"Oh, you will; will you?" suddenly cried the policeman dog, drawing -his club, and jumping from behind the stump. "Well, I guess you won't -eat my good friend, Uncle Wiggily. I guess not!" and with that the -policeman dog tickled the bear so on his nose that he sneezed, and -ran off through the woods taking his stubby little tail with him, but -leaving behind his roller skates. - -"Oh, I'm ever so much obliged to you, Policeman Dog," said the old -gentleman rabbit, as he took off the bear's skates. "You saved my life. -I'll take these skates home to Jimmie. They will fit him when he grows -bigger." - -"That is a good idea," said the dog, "and if I ever catch that bear -again I will put him in the beehive jail and make him crack hickory -nuts with his teeth." - -Then Uncle Wiggily went home, and took the little mousie girl with him, -and he told the duck children about his adventure with the bear, just -as I have told you. So now it's bedtime, if you please, and I can't -tell you any more. - -But if the man who cleans our yard doesn't take my overcoat for an ash -can and put the dried leaves in it, I'll tell you next about Uncle -Wiggily and the clothes wringer. - - - - -STORY XVI - -UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE CLOTHES WRINGER - - -One day Jackie and Peetie Bow Wow, the little puppy dog boys, came -running over to Uncle Wiggily's hollow stump-house. It was after -school, from which they had just come, and they rushed up the front -steps, barking like anything, and calling out: - -"Where's Uncle Wiggily? Where is he?" - -"We want to see him in a hurry!" barked Peetie. - -"Yes, immediately," went on Jackie. He had heard the teacher that day -in school use the word, immediately, to tell a bad bumble bee to take -his seat and stop trying to sting Lulu Wibblewobble. Immediately means -right off quick, without waiting, you know. - -"Hoity-toity!" cried Nurse Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy, the muskrat housekeeper. -"What is the trouble?" - -"We must see Uncle Wiggily immediately!" barked Peetie again, trying -to stand on one ear. But he could not make it stiff enough, so he fell -down, and bumped into Jackie, and they both tumbled down the steps, -making a great racket. - -"There, there! You must be more quiet," cautioned Nurse Jane. "Uncle -Wiggily just came back from his auto ride for his health, and is taking -a nap. You must not wake him up. What do you want to see him about that -is so important?" - -"Oh, we'll wait until he wakes up," said Jackie, as he sat down on the -porch. - -"Ha! Who wants me?" suddenly exclaimed a voice a little later, and out -came Uncle Wiggily himself. - -"We do!" cried Jackie. "Oh, Uncle Wiggily!" - -"We're going to work!" added Peetie, unable to keep still any longer. - -"What! You don't mean to say you're going to leave school and go to -work?" asked Uncle Wiggily. - -"No, we're not going to leave school," exclaimed Peetie. "We are going -to work after school. Jackie is going to deliver newspapers." - -"And I'm going to get ten cents a week for it," said Jackie proudly, -but not too proud. - -"And I'm going to help at the clothes wringer for the circus elephant," -exclaimed Peetie. - -"Help at the wringer for the elephant!" cried Uncle Wiggily. "What does -that mean? You startle and puzzle me." - -"Why, you know the circus elephant has to dress up like a clown," went -on Peetie. "And he plays a drum and a handorgan, and he fires off a -cannon in the sawdust ring. And he does a lot of things like that. -After a while his white clown suit gets all dirty and he has to wash -out his clothes. Then he has to squeeze them in a wringer to get as -much of the water out as he can. Then he hangs them up to dry. - -"Well, he can turn the wringer himself with his trunk, but his paws -are so big that he can't put the clothes through between the rubber -rollers. So he advertised for some little animal boy to help him after -school. I answered, and I'm going to help him wash and dry his clothes." - -"How much are you to get?" asked Uncle Wiggily. - -"I get three puppy biscuits every day and a glass of pink lemonade, and -on Saturday afternoons I can go to the circus for nothing." - -"Fine!" cried Uncle Wiggily. "I'm real glad you came to tell me. You -are good and smart little animal boys." - -Then Peetie and Jackie ran off to do the new work they had arranged -for, and Uncle Wiggily cleaned his auto ready for his ride next day. -And when he had finished he thought he would take a walk down to the -circus tent and see how Peetie was helping the elephant wash the -clothes. As for Jackie, he had to run so fast, here and there and -everywhere, to deliver his papers that Uncle Wiggily did not know where -to find him, any more than Bo-peep did her sheep. - -Well, in a little while, the rabbit gentleman came to where the -elephant was washing his clothes. Of course he had to have a very large -tub and washboard and an extra large wringer for his clothes were very -large. - -And there, up on a box in front of the tub, that was filled with suds -and water, stood Peetie Bow Wow, splashing around, and reaching down in -for the wet clothes. And as he fished them up, and put the ends between -the rubber rollers of the wringer, the elephant would turn the handle -of the squee-gee machine with his trunk. - -"How is that?" asked Peetie. - -"Fine!" cried the elephant, making his trunk go faster and faster, and -squirting the water out of the wet clothes, all over the ground. - -"Yes, Peetie is a good little chap," said Uncle Wiggily. Just then the -elephant's brother came along, and the two big animals began talking -together. And, as they were both a little deaf, each one shouted to the -other as loudly as he could. Oh! such a racket as they made--thunder -was nothing to it! - -And then a funny thing happened. Peetie turned around to put some more -clothes in the tub, when, all of a sudden, his tail got caught in -between the wringer's rubber rollers. - -"Ouch!" cried the little puppy dog. "Ouch! Oh, dear me! Stop, please, -Mr. Elephant. Don't turn the wringer any more!" - -But the two elephants were talking together, each one as loudly as he -could, about how much hay they could eat, and how some little boys at -a circus would give them only one peanut instead of a whole bag full, -and all things like that. So the clothes-washing elephant never noticed -that Peetie's tail was caught in the rollers. And he didn't hear him -cry. - -Around and around the elephant turned the handle of the wringer with -his trunk, winding Peetie's tail right between the rollers, and drawing -the little puppy dog boy himself closer and closer into the tub, over -the water and nearer to the rubber rollers themselves. - -[Illustration] - -"Oh, stop! Oh, stop!" cried poor Peetie trying to get away, but he -could not. "If I get rolled between the rollers I'll be as flat as a -pancake!" he screamed. "Oh, stop! Oh, Uncle Wiggily, save me!" - -"Yes, I will!" cried the rabbit gentleman. "You must stop turning that -wringer!" he said to the circus elephant. "You are wringing Peetie -instead of the clothes. His tail is caught!" - -But the elephant was so deaf, and his brother was calling to him so -loudly about pink lemonade, that he could not hear either Peetie or -Uncle Wiggily. Then, to make him listen, Uncle Wiggily with his crutch -tickled the elephant's foot, which was as high up as he could reach, -but the big creature thought it was only a mosquito, and paid no -attention. - -"Oh, what shall I do?" cried Peetie. - -"I'll save you!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily, and then, happening to have -a bag of peanuts in his pocket he held them close to the elephant's -trunk. The elephant could smell, if he could not hear well, and all at -once he took the peanuts, and as he did so, of course, he removed his -trunk from the wringer handle. - -And as he ate the peanuts he saw what a terrible thing he was doing, -wringing Peetie instead of the clothes, so he very kindly made the -wringer go backwards, and out came Peetie's tail again, a little flat, -but not much hurt otherwise. - -"I am so sorry," said the elephant. "I wouldn't have had it happen for -the world." - -"Yes, it was an accident," spoke Uncle Wiggily, "but I guess Peetie had -better find some other kind of work to do after school." - -"All right," said the elephant. "I'll pay him off, and then I'll get -a rubbery snake to help me with my clothes. A snake won't mind being -squeezed." - -So he did that, and Peetie and Uncle Wiggily went home, and nothing -more happened that day. But next, in case the automobile horn doesn't -blow the little girl's rubber balloon up in the top of the tree, where -the kittie cat has its nest, I'll tell you about Uncle Wiggily and the -trained nurse. - - - - -STORY XVII - -UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE TRAINED NURSE - - -Uncle Wiggily Longears, the gentleman rabbit, was out riding in his -automobile. He was taking exercise, so he would not be so fat, for a -fat rabbit is about the fattest thing there is, except a balloon, and -that doesn't count, as it has no ears. - -"I wonder what will happen to me to-day?" said Uncle Wiggily, as he -rode along, turning the turnip steering wheel from one side to the -other to keep from bumping into stones and stumps, and things like -that. And, every now and then, Uncle Wiggily would take a bite out of -his turnip steering wheel. That was what it was for, you see. And as -for the German bologna sausages which were the tires, Uncle Wiggily -used to let anybody who wanted to--such as a hungry doggie or a -starving kittie--take a bite out of them whenever they wanted to. - -Well, pretty soon, after a while, not so very long, Uncle Wiggily came -to the top of a hill. He stopped his auto there to look around at the -green fields and the apple trees in blossom, and at the little brook -running along over the green, mossy stones. And the brook never stubbed -its toe once on the stones! What do you think of that? - -"Well, I guess I'll go down hill," thought the old gentleman rabbit, -and down he started. - -But Oh unhappiness! Sadness, and, also, isn't it too bad! - -No sooner had Uncle Wiggily started down the hill in his auto than the -snicker-snooker-um got twisted around the boodle-oodle-um, and that -made the wibble-wobble-ton stand on its head, instead of standing on -its ear as it really ought to have done. - -Then the auto ran away, and the next thing Uncle Wiggily knew his car -had hit a stump, turned a somersault and part of a peppersault, and he -was thrown out. - -"Bang!" he fell, right on the hard ground, and for a moment he stayed -there, being too much out of breath to get up and see what was the -matter. - -And when he tried to get up he couldn't. Something had happened to him. -He had hit his head on a stone. Poor Uncle Wiggily! - -But, very luckily, Dr. Possum happened to be passing, having just come -from paying a visit to Grandfather Goosey Gander, who had, by mistake, -eaten a shoe button with his corn meal pudding. And Dr. Possum, having -cured Grandpa Goosey, went at once to help Uncle Wiggily. - -"We must get you home right away, Uncle Wiggily," said the doctor -gentleman. "You must be put to bed and have a trained nurse." - -"Well, as long as I have to have a nurse, I should much prefer," said -Uncle Wiggily, faintly, "I should much prefer a trained one to a wild -one. For a trained nurse who can do tricks will be quite funny." - -"Hum!" exclaimed Dr. Possum. "A trained nurse has no time to do tricks. -Now rest yourself." - -So Uncle Wiggily sat back quietly in Dr. Possum's auto until he got to -his hollow stump home. Then Old Dog Percival and the doctor carried -the rabbit gentleman in, and they sent for a trained nurse. For Uncle -Wiggily was quite badly hurt, and needed some one to feed him for a -while. - -Pretty soon the trained nurse came, and who did she turn out to be but -Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy herself, the kind old muskrat. She had been -living with Uncle Wiggily, but, for a time, had gone off to study to be -a trained nurse. She put on a white cap and a blue and white striped -dress, and she was just as good a nurse as one could get from the -hospital. Uncle Wiggily was too ill to notice, though. - -"I know how to look after him," said Nurse Jane, and she really did. - -She felt of his pulse, and made him put out his tongue to look at, to -see that he had not swallowed it by mistake, and she found out how hot -he was to see if he had fever, and all things like that. And she put a -report of all these things down on a bit of white birch bark for paper, -using a licorice stick for a pencil. Afterward Dr. Possum would read -the report. - -Well, for some time Uncle Wiggily was quite ill, for you know it is no -fun to be in an automobile accident. Then he began to get better. Nurse -Jane did not have much to do, and Dr. Possum, who came in every day, -said: - -"He will get well now. But Uncle Wiggily has had a hard time of it; -very hard!" - -And, as soon as he began to get better, Uncle Wiggily got sort of -impatient, and he wanted many things he could not have, or which were -not good for him. He wanted to get out of bed, but Nurse Jane would not -let him, for the doctor had told her not to. - -Then Uncle Wiggily said: - -"Well, you are a trained nurse. Now you must do some tricks for me, or -I shall get out of bed whether you want me to or not," and he barked -like a dog; really he did. You see he was not exactly himself, but -rather out of his head on account of the fever. "Come on, do some -tricks!" he cried to Nurse Jane. - -Poor Miss Fuzzy-Wuzzy! She had never done a trick since she was a -little girl muskrat, but she knew sick rabbits must be humored, so she -tried to think of a trick. She did not know whether to make believe -jump rope, play puss in a corner or pretend that she was a fire engine. -And she really wanted to help Uncle Wiggily! - -"Come on! Do something!" he cried, and he almost jumped out of bed. "Do -something." - -And just then, as it happened, a great big bee flew in the window, and -maybe it was going to sting Uncle Wiggily, for all I know. Then Nurse -Jane knew what to do. - -She caught up a soft towel, so as not to hurt the bee any more than she -had to, and she began hitting at him. - -"Get out of here! Get out of here!" cried Nurse Jane. "You can't sting -Uncle Wiggily!" - -"Buzz! Buzz!" sang the bee. - -"Go out! Go out!" exclaimed Nurse Jane, and she made the towel sail -through the air. The bee flew this way and that, up and down and -sideways, but always Nurse Jane was after him with the towel, trying to -drive him out of the window. - -She climbed up on chairs, she jumped over tables, without knocking over -a single medicine bottle. She crawled under the sofa and out again, she -even jumped on the couch and bounced up in the air like a balloon. And -at last she drove the bad bee out doors where he could get honey from -the flowers, and they didn't mind his stinging them if he wanted to, -which of course he didn't. - -Then, after that, Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy sat down in a chair, near -Uncle Wiggily, very tired out indeed. The old gentleman rabbit opened -his eyes and laughed a little. - -"Those were funny tricks you did for me," he said, "jumping around like -that. Very funny! Ha! Ha!" - -"I was not doing tricks," answered Nurse Jane, surprised-like. "I was -trying to keep a bee from biting you." - -"Were you indeed?" spoke Uncle Wiggily. "I thought they were some of -the tricks you had been trained to do. They were fine. I laughed so -hard that I think I am much better." - -And, indeed, he was, and soon he was all well, so that Nurse Jane -Fuzzy, without really meaning to at all, had done some funny tricks -when she drove out that bee. Oh! trained nurses are very queer, I -think, but they are very nice, also. - -So Uncle Wiggily was soon well, and needed no nurse, and when his auto -was mended, he could ride around in it as nicely as before. - - - - -=The Sunnybrook Series= - - By MRS. ELSIE M. ALEXANDER - - Cloth Bound, 12 mo. Illustrations in Color - Jackets in Full Color Colored End Papers, Illus. - - - * * * * * - -A remarkably well told, instructive series of stories of animals, their -characteristics and the exciting incidents in their lives. 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