The rabbit gentleman stood still, looking around and making his pink
nose twinkle like a pair of roller skates. While he was doing this
along came a cow lady chewing some grass for her complexion.
"What are you doing here, Uncle Wiggily?" asked the cow lady.
Uncle Wiggily told her how he had gone to the drug store for peppermint
for Nurse Jane, and how he had found the store closed, so he could not
get any.
"But I smell peppermint here in the woods," went on the bunny uncle.
"Can it be that the drug store monkey doodle has left some here for me?"
"No, what you smell is--that," said the cow lady, pointing her horns
toward some green plants growing near a little babbling brook of water.
The plants had dark red stems that were square instead of round.
"It does smell like peppermint," said Uncle Wiggily, going closer and
sniffing and snuffing.
"It is peppermint," said the cow lady. "That is the peppermint plant
you see."
"Oh, now I remember," Uncle Wiggily exclaimed. "They squeeze the juice
out of the leaves, and that's peppermint flavor for candy or for
indigestion."
"Exactly," spoke the cow lady, "and I'll help you squeeze out some of
this juice in the bottle for Nurse Jane."
Then Uncle Wiggily and the cow lady pulled up some of the peppermint
plants and squeezed out the juice between two clean, flat stones, the
cow lady stepping on them while Uncle Wiggily caught the juice in the
empty bottle as it ran out.
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