Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-08-22
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Uncle WiggiIy and the Cabbage Cake


| One morning, when Sammie anc
Susie Littletail, the rabbit children
came over to the seashore bungalow
Of Uncle Wiggily Longers, they saw
the rabbit gentleman packing {
satchel full Of clothes.
"Oh, Uncle Wiggily!" exclaimed
Sammie, what are you doing?'
1T looks just as If he were getting
ready to 60 away" Susie said.
II am" remarked Uncle Wiggily. 9
have had letter from Buddy ant
Brighteyes, the guinea pig children
They say they can't come down to the
seashore right away, and they wan
me to come up and see them"
And are you going, Uncle Wig
gily?" asked Sammie.
Yes, for little WHILE" the rabbit
gentleman made answer. But I may
come back and finish my vacation a,
the Shore
So Uncle Wiggily packed his valise
and off he started. ~Sammie ant
Susie, and the other animal children
! at the shore, Were sorry to see hin
leave. but Buddy and Brighteyes were
glad indeed when their RABBIT uncle ar
/
! ! "Oh, how happy We'll be now!'
cried BURY, whistling on his paws.
| And what fun we'll have!" laughed
Brighteyes.
| And indeed the guinea pig children
did enjoy Uncle Wiggily's visit. HI
was given the best room in the pen
an dsometimes he was allowed to hold
on his lap little Piggie-Iggie, the new
baby guinea pig. Uncle Wiggily
loved Piggie-Iggie, and she loved him
! One morning, after a day spent ou
on a little picnic in the woods witt
the guinea pig children, Uncle Wig
gily awakened in his bed, and criet
out: &C.
ouch! Oh me! Oh my! Oh dear
This is terrible!"
What is the matter, Uncle Wig
giy?" asked Zuddy Pigg from thu
next room, where he was just dressing
himself to go to school. did some
thing bite your"
mo, it's just my rheumatism again,
answered the old gentleman rabbit
1T is in both my legs, and it's just
as bad as If some one bit me, or as ii
bee stung me. I'll have to 60 around
/ I
| it in some time" r."
! "Im very sorry" said Buddy. "Wait
and III get your crutch, and then I'll
| 60 for DR.. Postum for you. Maybe
he can give you some medicine" "'
| Maybe he cam spoke Uncle Wig
gily. 1T is very kind of you, Buddy
| And pretty soon, when Buddy had
brought the crutch, the old gentleman
rabbit was just able to hobble down
the stairs to breakfast. Everybody
was very sorry for him, and so was
even Sister Piggie.Iggie, the baby
guinea pig.
| On their way to school Buddy and
Brighteyes stopped at DR.. Possum's
office and asked him to bring some
medicine to Uncle Wiggily.
II will. at once said the doctor
kindly, and he did, and in about an
| hour Uncle Wiggily could walk
around pretty well on his crutch
| which Nurse Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy, the
| muskrat. had gnawed for him out of a
cornstalk
Pretty soon, after a while, Mrs Pigg
came down into the kitchen where
| Uncle Wiggily was sitting near the
stove to keep warm. The lady
guinea pig had on her best bonnet and
shawl, and she had her little bayb
Piggie-Iggie wrapped up in blanket
Uncle Wiggily," said Mrs. Pigg, do
you think you are well enough to get
alone for little while as I want to go
out with the baby"
"Oh, certainly" said Uncle Wiggily
I'm all right. "I'n look after the
house, and while you're gone l think
And then the old gentleman rababit
stopped suddenly and laughed Queerly
like.
ooh, what are you up to now, I'd
like to know?" asked Mrs. Pigg, shak'
ing ing her paw at Uncle Wisgily play.
ooh, it's a secret he said. You'll
find out when you come home"
Well, Mrs. Pigg wanted to find out
what that secret was, but Uncle Wig.
gily wouldn't tell her, and at last she
went out to give the baby an airing,
and the old gentleman rabbit was left
alone in the house. IL.
"Now to make cabbage cake!'
Uncle Wiggily cried, and that was his
secret. He had seen nice big cab
bage down cellar once when he went
to fix the furnace. Cabbage cake ID