"
"Then you trot right along," said Uncle Wiggily, kindly. "Tie a knot
in your tail, so you won't step on it, and hurry along."
"But what about the black-boards?" asked the lady mouse. "They must be
cleaned off."
"I'll attend to that," promised the bunny uncle. "I will clean them
myself. Run along, Miss Mouse."
So Miss Mouse thanked the bunny uncle, and ran along, and the rabbit
gentleman began brushing the chalk marks off the black-boards, at the
same time humming a little tune that went this way:
"I'd love to be a teacher,
Within a hollow stump.
I'd teach the children how to fall,
And never get a bump.
I'd let them out at recess,
A game of tag to play;
I'd give them all fresh lollypops
'Most every other day!"
"Oh, my! Wouldn't we just love to come to school to you!" cried a
voice at the window, and, looking up. Uncle Wiggily saw Billie
Bushytail, the boy squirrel, and brother Johnnie with him.
"Ha! What happened you two chaps?" asked the bunny uncle. "Why did
you run off without cleaning the black-boards for the lady mouse
teacher?"
"We forgot," said Johnnie, sort of ashamed-like and sorry. "That's
what we came back to do--clean the boards."
"Well, that was good of you," spoke Uncle Wiggily. "But I have the
boards nearly cleaned now."
"Then we will give them a dusting with our tails, and that will finish
them," said Billie, and the squirrel boys did, so the black-boards were
very clean.
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