Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-04-08
Children's Evening Story


ed With cabbage! NOW, just so tnat pig
can't get out, I'll stop up that hole,
while. he's asleep in there, and I'll go
and get my wife, and We'll come back
and have dandy meal! Oh, most
delectable neal"
So that old fox crept softly, so softly,
up to where the cabbage was, with
Buddy asleep inside, and the fox took
a stone and he crowded it and wedged
it fast in the hole, so poor Buddy could
not get out, though there was some air
for him to breathe. Then the fox
laughed to himself: "Ha ha!" and "Ho,
ho!" and hurried off down the hill after
his wife.
Well, it wasn't long before Buddy
Pigg awoke, and he tried to stretch
himself as he always did after nap,
and wasn't he the surprised guinea pig
Though, when he found he couldn't
stretch.
"Why, what can be the matter?" he
cried. I'm all in the dark! Let's see
where was I? Oh. remember, found
a cabbage and l began to eat it, and |
went inside it And land sakes, good
ness me and a trolley car! I'm inside
it now" he cried, as he smelled the
cabbage. I'm shut in the cabbage just
as If was shut in a closet! However
did it happen?' and he tried to turn
around and make his way out, but he
couldn't because the stone which the
fox had stuffed in the hole closed it up
too tight.
"I'm locked in!' cried Buddy Pigg.
Locked in cabbage! Isn't It ter
rible!" and of course it was and no
fooling, either.
Well, Buddy Pigg was a brave little
chap and instead of sitting down and
crying there in the dark he began to
think Of how he could get out. He
thought Of all sort of ways, but none
of them seemed any good and at last
he decided to try to burst the cabbage
open But it was too strong and thick
and he couldn't do it.
He soon discovered, however, that,
wiggIing around inside it as he did,
made the cabbage wiggle too, and the
first thing you know the cabbage be.
gan to roll down the hill, just like a
man in barrel.
Faster and faster went the cabbage
down the hill, over and over~W1th Bud
dy inside, and he began to get dizzy
for he didn't know what was happen
ing
Then at that moment who should
come along but that bad fox and his
wife. The cabbage seemed to be roll
ing straight at them.
my sakes alive!" cried Mrs. Fox.
What is that, Oscar?' You see her
husbands name was Oscar.
81 don't know he replied, "but don't
bother about it. Well go and get that
guinea pig" So they kept on, but just
then the cabbage bounded over little
clod Of dirt, went up in the air, and
nearly hit Mr.. Fox and that scared him
so that he ran away and his wife ran
after him.
Well, the cabbage, with Buddy inside
kept on rolling, and the first thing you
know it began to roll down the hill in
front of the guinea pigs pen. 1t made
quite noise and Matilda ran out to
see what 1t was.
"Oh mammal" she cried. Here Is
a cabbage rolling down the hill
"Nonsense!" cried Mrs. Pigg. Who
ever hear dof such thing?" but she
ran out to see what it was and at that
moment the cabbage bounded right in
front of the pen, hit big stone, burst
open with noise like torpedo, and
out rolled Buddy Pigg over and over
just like a pumpkin. But, believe me-
he wasn't hurt the least mite, but he
was rather surprised like!
Then he got up, walked over to his
mother and said:
Here is some fresh cabbage |
brought home" and be was as cool as
two cucumbers. Well, the guinea pigs
had a fine dinner off the cabbage Bud
dy brought home in such funny way,
and of course the fox and his wife
didn't have any, which served them
right I suppose.
| Now in the next story. If the COOK
doesn't burn the potatoes and make
stove backing Of them I'll be able to
tell you about Brighteyes Pigg and
Mrs. Hoptoad.