Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-10-31
UNCLE WlGGILY AND GRANDPA
GOOSEY,

Well. by and by, after while, not
SO very long, Uncle Wiggily, who was
hopping along on his crutch, suddenly
exclaimed:
"Oh. I've lost my valise. What shall
II do? | can't go on without it, for
it has our lunch in it,
Il think you left it under the green.
apple tree said the duck. You had
better go back for it, and will wait
here in the shade" for Grandpa
Goosey knew the rabbit could hop
faster than he could wobble.
Back Uncle Wiggily started. and
surely enough, he found his valise un-
der the apple tree. where he had for.
gotten it. He picked it up, and was
walking along with it back to where
Grandfather Goosey Gander was wait
ing for him when, all of sudden. out
from behind stump came Jennie
Chipmunk. with basket of popcorn
balls
"Oh, Uncle Wiggily!' she exclaimed
Don't you want to buy some popcorn
balls? Our church is having little
fair, and we are all trying to earn
some money. am selling popcorn, to
help the little heather children buy
red.colored handerchiefs."
"Of course, I'll take some" said the
old gentleman rabbit. popcorn balls.
II mean-not children, or handker
chiefs he said quickly. So he bought
a pink one. and white one, and a
chocolate colored one. popcorn balls
you know-not children-and put
them in his valise.
Then Uncle Wiggily sent his love to
Sammie and Susie Littletail. by Jen-
ME Chipmunk, and off he started to
where Grandfather Goosey Gander
was waiting for him.
Well. something terrible was hap
penning to the poor old gentleman
duck, and I'll tell you all about it. No
sooner had the rabbit gotten near the
shady tree under which the grandfath-
err gentleman was resting, than he
heard cry.
Help! Help. Help" called the
duck. "Oh, help me quickly some
body"
What is the natter" asked Uncle
Wiggily, limping along as fast as he
could.
"Oh, a bad snake has caught mel"
cried the duck. HE has wound him
self around my legs. and | can't walk,
and he is going to eat me up! He
jumped on me out of the bushes. He
will eat me"
HE shall never do that" cried the
rabbit, bravely. II will save you So
he ran up to that snake. but the snake
stuck out his tongue, like fork. at
the rabbit, and Uncle Wiggily was
ST. saA "a
snake with stick, but the Gravity
creature hid down behind Grandfather
Goosey, and so he got out of the way.
Il have it," suddenly cried Uncle
Wiggily. The popcorn balls. Snakes
love them. III make him eat them.
and then he'll let Grandpa Goosey
CO." So from his valise the brave
rabbit took the red and the white and
the chocolate colored popcorn balls,
and he rolled them along the ground,
close to the snakes nose. And the
snake smelled them. and he was SO
hungry for them that he uncoield
himself from Granfather Gooseys
legs, and let the old gentleman duck
go. And the snake chased after the
popcorn balls and ate them all up,
and then he didn't want anything more
for long while, and he went to sleep
for six months apd dreamed about
turning into a hoop. and so he didn't
bother anybody.
So that's how Uncle Wiggily saved
the duck, and next. in case the pretty
baby across the street doesn't fall
down and bump its nose. I'll tell you
about Uncle Wiggily and the ice cream
cones.