" And Peetie and Jackie said they would.
So Uncle Wiggily, after also thanking the tree, took the doggie boys
home, and they told him how the foxes had chased them soon after they
came from school, so they had to run.
But everything came out all right, you see, and if the black cat
doesn't dip his tail in the ink, and make chalk marks all over the
piano, I'll tell you next about Uncle Wiggily and the hazel nuts.
STORY XVIII
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE HAZEL NUTS
"Going out again, Uncle Wiggily?" asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, one
morning, as she saw the rabbit gentleman taking his red, white and
blue-striped rheumatism crutch down off the clock shelf.
"Well, yes, Janie, I did think of going out for a little stroll in the
forest," answered the bunny uncle, talking like a phonograph. What he
meant was that he was going for a walk in the woods, but he thought
he'd be polite about it, and stylish, just for once.
"Don't forget your umbrella," went on Nurse Jane. "It looks to me very
much as though there would be a storm."
"I think you're right," Uncle Wiggily said. "Our April showers are not
yet over. I shall take my umbrella."
So, with his umbrella, and the rheumatism crutch which Nurse Jane had
gnawed for him out of a cornstalk, off started the bunny uncle, hopping
along over the fields and through the woods.
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