Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-11-07
Children's Evening Story

For I'm so mad,
feel so bad
could eat hickory tree.
!Oh. snip, snap, snoop.
Get of my big front stoop,
Or I'll tear my hair
In wild despair,
And burn you with not soup"
! my, that's queer song for a good
giant to sing" thought Uncle Wiggily.
But perhaps he just sings that TO:
fun. I'm sure I'll find him jolly
good fellow, when | get to know him.
! Well, he went on little farther.
and pretty soon he came to the gate
of the castle where the bad giant lived.
The rabbit looked about. and saw no
one there, so he kept right on, until,
all of a sudden, he felt as If big
balloon had swooped down out of the
sky. and had lifted him up. Higher
and higher he went, until he found
himself away up toward the roof OF
the castle. and then he looked and he
i saw two big fingers, about as big as
! a trolley car. holding him just as you
would hold bug.
! "Oh, who htv me?" cried Uncle
Wiggily, very much frightened. Let
! IllS 10, plcdSS. w III dL Ou
"I am the bad giant was the an
swer and if let you go now you'd
fall to the ground and be killed So
I'll hold on to you"
Are you the bad gianto" asked the
rabbit why thought was com.
ing to the good giants house. Oh.
please let me go!''
mo. I'm going to keep YOU said
, the giant. II just took the good
giants flag to fool you. Now, let ME
see, think III just sprinkle sugar
on you and eat you all up-no. I'll use
salt-no, think pepper would be bet
ter; I feel like pepper today
! So the bad giant started toward the
cupboard to get the pepper caster, and
poor Uncle Wiggily thought 1t was all
up with him.
ooh. wish had never thought Of
. coming to see any giant. good or bad"
the rabbit gentleman said Now good
by to all my friends
Hum. Let me see.' spoke the bad
giant. standing still. "Pepper-no.
! I'll think I'll put some mustard on you
no. I'll try ketchup-no. l mean
horseradish Oh, dear can't seem to
make up my mind what to flavor you
with" and he held Uncle Wiggily
there in his fingers. away up about a
hundred feet high in the air. and Won
,, dered what he'd do with the old gen
tleman rabbit.
And it is good thing he didn't eat
him right away. for that was the
means of saving Uncle Wiggily's life.
Right after breakfast the good giant
found out that his bad neighbor had
taken his flag. and so he went and
told the ants all about it.
"Oh. then Uncle Wiggily must have
been mixed up about the flag, and he
has gone to the wrong place, and he'll
be eaten" said the big ant. I'VE must
save him Come on. everybody
So all the ants hurried along togeth-
er. and crawled to the castle Of the
bad giant. and they got there just as
he was putting some molasses on I'm
Gle Wiggily to eat him. And those
ants crawled all over the giant, on his
legs and arms. and nose and ears and
toes, and they tickled him so that he
squiggled and wiggled and squirreled
and whirled and finally he let Uncle
Wiggily fall on feather bed not hurt
ing him bit, and the rabbit gentle
man hoped safely away and the ants
crawled with him far from the castle
of the bad giant.
So Uncle Wiggily was saved by the
ants. and in case the trolley car
doesn't run over my stick Of pepper
mint candy. and make it look like a
lollypop. III tell you soon about I'm.
Gle Wiggily and the good giant.