Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-09-23
Children Evening Story

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haps the Gypsy woman wouldn't un
derstand rabbit talk. So he sat there
in the bushes, thinking what he had
better do, when all at once, before b.
could wiggle his ears more than four
times, great big, bad, ugly dog
sprang at him, barking oh! so loudly
| Come on, Bowser!" cried this dog
to another one. Here is fat rabbit
that we can catch for dinner. Come
on, let's chase him.
Continued from yesterday
Well, you can just imagine how
frightened Uncle Wiggily was. He
didn't sit there, waiting for that dog
to catch him, either. No, indeed. and
bag Of popcorn besides! Up jumped
Uncle Wiggily, with his crutch and
his valise, and he hoped as hard and
as fast az he could run. Ny! How his
legs did twist in and ont.
Come on! Gomez" barked the first
dog to the second one. - +
I'm coming! I'm coming! Wool!
Wool! Bow-w-w Bow-wow!" barked
the second dog
Poor Uncle Wiggily's heart beat
faster and faster and he didn't know
which way to run. Every way he
turned the dogs We're after him, and
soon more of the savage animals came
OF join the first two, until all the dogs
in that gypsy camp were chasing the
poor old gentleman rabbit. -.
IT guess I'll have to drop my satch-
ell or my crutch," thought Uncle Wig
gily., ~ can't carry them much far
Their. Still, don't want to lose then"
So he held on to them little longer,
took a good breath and ran on some
more. @ ea.@. 49,, ..- ,.... ~.
He thought he saw chance to es-
cape by running across in front of the
fortune telling tent, and he started
that way. but gypsy man, with gun,
saw him and fired at him. I'm glad to
say, however, that he didn't shoot
Uncle Wiggily, or else couldn't tell
any more stories about him..
Uncle Wiggily got safely past the
tent, but the dogs were almost up to
him now. One of them was just 60
ing to catch him by hi sleft hind leg,
when one of the gypsy men cried out:
Grab him, Bitter! Grab him! Well
have rabbit potpie for dinner that's
what We'll have!"
Wasn't that perfectly dreadful way
to talk about our Uncle Wiggily? But
just wait. if you please.
Bitter, the bad dog. was just going
to grab the rabbit when all of sud-
den Uncle Wiggily saw big hole in
the ground. ....,. .-
That's what I'm looking fort" he
exclaimed. I'm going down there and
hide away from these dogs!"
So into the hole he popped, valise.
crutch and all, and oh! how glad he
was to get into the cool, quiet dark
ness, leaving those savage, barking
dogs outside. But wait a moment long
er, if you please. .... ...:..
Bitter and Browser stopped short at
the hole. . -
Hes gone-gotten clean away"
exclaimed Browser. isn't that too
bad?" .> .>. ye
mo, We'll get him yeti" cried Bitter
Here. you watch at this hole. while
l 20 get a pail of water. Well pour
the water down. under the ground
where the rabbit is, and that will
make him come out, and Well eat
him. .."s .s.... ...s
Good" cried Browser. So while he
stood there and watched, Bitter went
Tor the water. Dul, ulluu yOu, OuClc
Wiggily had sharp ears and he heard
what they were saying, and what do
you think he did?
Why, with his sharp claws he went
right to work, and he dug, and dug,
and dug in the back part Of that under
ground place, until he had made anoth-
err hole, far of from the first one, and
he crawled out Of that, with his crutch
and valise, Just as Bitter waus pouring
the water down the first hole.
"Ah, ha! think this will astonish
those dogs!' thought Uncle Wiggily
and he took peep at them from be-
hind bush where they couldn't see
him, and then he hoppe don through
the woods, to look for more adven-
lures, leaving the dogs still pouring
water. y
I And what happened to him shortly
after that, as I shall tell you in the
next story, when, in case the rocking
chair doesn't tip over backwards and
spill out the sofa cushion into the rub
Der plant, the story will be about
Uncle Wiggily and the monkey. ~