STORY XIV
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE PINE TREE
Uncle Wiggily Longears, the nice old gentleman rabbit, put on his tall
silk hat, polished his glasses with the tip of his tail, to make them
shiny so he could see better through them, and then, taking his red,
white and blue striped rheumatism crutch down off the mantel, he
started out of his hollow stump bungalow one day.
"Better take an umbrella, hadn't you?" asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy,
the muskrat lady housekeeper. "It looks as though we might have an
April shower."
"An umbrella? Yes, I think I will take one," spoke the bunny uncle, as
he saw some dark clouds in the sky. "They look as though they might
have rain in them."
"Are you going anywhere in particular?" asked the muskrat lady, as she
tied her tail in a soft knot.
"No, not special," Uncle Wiggily answered. "May I have the pleasure of
doing something for you?" he asked with a polite bow, like a little
girl speaking a piece in school on Friday afternoon.
"Well," said Nurse Jane, "I have baked some apple dumplings with
oranges inside, and I thought perhaps you might like to take one to
Grandfather Goosey Gander to cheer him up."
"The very thing!" cried Uncle Wiggily, jolly-like. "I'll do it, Nurse
Jane."
So with an apple dumpling carefully wrapped up in a napkin and put in a
basket, Uncle Wiggily started off through the woods and over the fields
to Grandpa Goosey's house.
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