Nothing seems to go right.
I naturally thought I had found the beginning of my fortune, even if it
was only a penny, and it turned out that the money belonged to somebody
else. Oh dear!"
Well, the old rabbit traveler actually felt so badly that he didn't much
care whether he found his fortune or not, and that is a very poor way to
feel in this world, for one must never give up trying, no matter what
happens.
Then Uncle Wiggily looked in his satchel to see if he had anything to eat,
but my goodness sakes alive and a ham sandwich! There wasn't a thing in
the valise! You see he was thinking so much about the penny that he forgot
to put up his lunch.
"Humph! This is a pretty state of affairs!" exclaimed the old rabbit
gentleman. "Worse and worse, and some more besides! I do declare! Hum!
Suz! Dud!"
Well, he didn't know what to do, so he sat down on a log beside a shady
bush and thought it all over. And the more he thought the sadder he
became, until he began to believe he was the most miserable rabbit in all
the world.
"Oh, dear! Oh, dear!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily. "I might as well go back
home and done with it."
But no sooner had he said this, than Uncle Wiggily heard the jolliest
laugh he had ever known. Oh! it was such a rippling, happy joyous laugh
that it would almost cure the toothache just to listen to it.
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