Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-06-29
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Uncle Wiqaily and the Mouse.

| Where are you going this morn
ing?" asked the ice cold lobster OF
Uncle Wiggily Longears, the nice old
gentleman rabbit, one day. You look
as if you were going out.
II am going out replied the rab.
bit, as he hoped across the room OF
the hollow stump hotel where he was
staying, and looked from the window
81 am going out to walk up and down
the beach and see If can find pretty
she'll Won't you come with me?'
mo, indeed, thank you," spoke the
lobster. as with shiver and shake
he crawled back under his warm
blanket again. Il have not yet gotten
over being kept on the cake. of ice.
I will stay here and sleep, if you don't
mind"
do Just as you please" said Uncle
Wiggily kindly. "As long as you are
with me you can do as you like. But
I'm going out after breakfast"
So the rabbit gentleman went down
to the dining room and the waiter
bird named William brought him diff
ferent things to eat, such as carrots
and lettuce and bit Of turnip. Then
Uncle Wiggily washed his paws in the
finger bowl and went out on the beach.
He climbed over the boardwalk, which
runs along the front part Of the ocean,
and was soon down on the sand.
MY" he exclaimed. This is a
fine day! My rheumatism is much bet
ter. l think / will write to DR.. Pos
sum and ask him If I haven't been
here long enough. am anxious to
get back to the chicken coop house
and see Charlie and Arabella Chick,
and the Wagtail goat children who
do such funny things"
Well, Uncle Wiggily was thinking
about this and looking out over the
ocean, when, all at once, he heard a
voice calling Oh, it was such a little,
faint, far away sort of squeaky voice
and it said:
"Oh, dear! l know shall never get
to shore! I'll surely be drowned! l
can't hold on much longer. My tail
Is in the water now!"
My! I wonder who that can be?'
exclaimed Uncle Wiggily. "A tail!
Gracious me sakes alive and the pussy
cat! hope it isn't the bad alligator
with a hump on his tail. II it Is I'd
better run away"
Still, as Uncle Wiggily was very
brave, he didn't want to run until he
saw something to run from. So once
more he looked carefully over the
waves and he saw something long anS
black being tossed about on the water.
"Ha! l believe 1t is the bad ALI
gator after all!' he exclaimed.
And just then the voice called again.
"Oh, save me! Save ME! Please
don't let me drown! This ocean water
Is so salty that when 1t gets in my
eyes it makes me cry and when tears
go up my nose they make me sneeze!
Oh. save me!
WELL" thought Uncle Wiggily, 81
don't want to see even bad alligator
drown, but what can do? How can
l save him p. .aE'. "a RI Is
Then he happened to think that he
had piece of strong cord in his peck
ct. So he quickly took this piece of
string, tied a shell to it and threw 1t
toward the long, black thing that was
tossing up and down on the waves.
Catch hold of the cord and I'll pull
you up on the beach," cried Uncle
Wiggily. "Pll save you! And then
I'll run away so the alligator can
eat me-" he whispered to himself
ooh, thank, you ever so much!' SAID
the voice, and it was such soft,
gentle, squeaky sort of voice that
the rabbit gentleman thought perhaps
maybe it wasn't the alligator after all.
So Uncle Wiggily began to pull in