Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-05-28

| ask you to bring me a spool of
| thread from the store"
ooh, I'll do that with pleasure"
said the bunny. "Ill bring you
the thread, Nurse Jane"
| Away he hoped, over the fields
and through the woods, and soon
| Uncle Wiggily was at the one and
| two cent store. There he bought
a nice spool of strong red thread
for the muskrat lady and on he
| hoped.
| Uncle Wiggily had not gone very
far before, all at once, he came to
a little brook where the water ran
along over the green, messy rocks,
| singing song of joy and sun
shine.
But above the noise of the bah
Filling brook sounded a sad voice,
tsaying;
"Oh, how shall 1 ever get
across? l can't swim very well,
and if l jump across may fall in
and get drowned. Oh, what shall
dO?"
Uncle Wiggily looked across the
brook, and on the far side he saw
a large, black cricket.
Whats the matter?" asked the
| bunny gentleman.
"Chirp!A Chirp!" answered the
cricket. 81 am on the wrong side
of the brook and I want to get
across. can't swim and I'm
afraid I can't jump so far, as it
is too wide. oh, what shall / do?"
Just wait moment and THl
help you" said Uncle Wiggily.
Mr.. Longears took from his !
pocket the spool of strong, red
thread he had bought for Nurse |
Jane. Them with his strong
teeth, the bunny gnawed off a !
piece of bark from a tree Tying |
one end of the string to this piece |
of bark, Uncle Wiggily tossed it
across the brook. so that it fell
close to the black cricket on the
other shore.
There is a little boat for YOU,
Mr. Cricket" called Uncle Wig
gily. Push the bit of bark into t
the brook, hop on board and III
pull you safely across by the
strong, red thread"
"Oh Joy!" chirped the black
cricket.
Soon he was on the bark boat
and Uncle Wiggily pulled him
across the brook. And the cricket
only got his legs wet a little NV
the water that splashed up on the
piece of bark. But that did not
matter much.
on, l never can thank you
enough for bringing me across the
brook, Uncle Wiggily!" chirped
the black insect.
Pray do not mention it" re-
pied the bunny, with a low and
polite bow of his tall, silk hat,
Then Uncle Wiggily hoped one
way and the cricket hoped the
othef and soon the bunny GENTLE
man was almost at his hollow
stump bungalow, when, all at once.
out from behind a sassafras bush
Jumped the bad old Bob Cat with
his little stumpy tail and this had
chap caught Uncle Wiggily by the
coat tails.
"Ah ha! Now I have you,"
howled the Bob Cat with the
stubby tail, and he dragged tbe
bunny gentleman off through the
woods to den amid the rocks,
please let me got" beegad
Uncle Wiggily. II want to give
Jane" %
Pooh! AS if I cared for that &"
the Bob Cat, and he
pushed Uncle Wiggily down on a
rock and sat down on another
stone himself Nov, let me see."
loWled the Bob Cat, looking at the
bunny. Which of your ears shall
/ nlbble first-the right one or
the left one?"
Poor Uncle Wiggily shivered.
guess I'll nibble your left ear
nrst-no, I'll try the right. Oh, I
guess I'll nibble them both at
once!" howled the Bob Cat.
mo. you will not! 1 shall not
let you nibble either of Uncle
ears" cried a brave
Who are you to stop ne?"
nowled the Bob Cat.
THE Black Cricket" was the
iill mere WlJn ten | ,
.nousand seven hundred and twen-
-y-two of my cricket relations,
and we1l bite you so hard that
You can't bite Uncle Wiggily!"
Then into the Bob Cats den
hopped the 10000 and more black
led by the one Uncle
Wlggily had saved. And they
hipped and bit that Bob Cat all
over on his legs and nose until he
cried: "Oh, wow" and ran out OF
his den, so Uncle Wiggily could
hop safely away.
This the bunny did, so his ears
weren't nibbled after all, and he
thanked the crickets very much.
So once again Mr.. Longears was
saved, and if the rolling pin
Doesn't skate over the apple pie
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