"I wonder if I shall have an adventure today?" thought the rabbit
gentleman as he waved his ears to and fro like the pendulum of a clock.
"I think I would like one to give me an appetite for supper. I must
watch for something to happen."
He looked all around the woods, but all he could see were some trees.
"I can't have any adventures with them," said the bunny uncle, "though
the horse chestnut tree did help me the other day by tossing the bad
bear over into the briar bush. But these trees are not like that."
Still Uncle Wiggily was to have an adventure with one of the trees very
soon. Just you wait, now, and you shall hear about it.
Uncle Wiggily walked on a little farther and he heard a funny tapping
noise in the woods.
"Tap! Tap! Tap! Tappity-tap-tap!" it sounded.
"My! Some one is knocking on a door trying to get in," thought the
bunny. "I wonder who it can be?"
Just then he saw a big bird perched on the side of a pine tree, tapping
with his bill.
"Tap! Tap! Tap!" went the bird.
"Excuse me," said the bunny uncle, "but you are making a mistake. No
one lives in that tree."
"Oh, thank you, Uncle Wiggily. I know that no one lives here," said
the bird. "But you see I am a woodpecker, and I am pecking holes in
the tree to get some of the sweet juice, or sap. The sap is running in
the trees now, for it is Spring.
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