Well, in a little while, not so very long, the rabbit and the cricket came
to a dark place in the woods. Oh! it was quite dismal, and, just as they
passed a big, black stump with a hole in it, all of a sudden out popped
the skillery-scalery-tailery alligator.
"Ah, ha!" exclaimed the unpleasant creature. "Now I have you both. I'm
going to eat you both, first you, Mr. Cricket, and then you, Uncle
Wiggily."
"Oh, please don't," begged the rabbit. "I haven't found my fortune yet."
"No matter," cried the alligator, "here we go!"
He made a grab for the cricket, but the little black insect hopped to one
side, and then, all of a sudden he began to laugh. Oh, how hard he
laughed.
"Ha! Ha! Ho! Ho! He! He!" My, it was wonderful! At first the alligator
didn't know what to make of it. Harder and harder did the black cricket
laugh, and then Uncle Wiggily began. He just couldn't help it. Harder and
harder laughed the cricket and Uncle Wiggily together, and then, all at
once, the alligator began to laugh. He couldn't help it either.
"Ha! Ha! Ho! Ho! He! He!" laughed the 'gator, and great big alligator
tears rolled down his scaly cheeks, he laughed so hard. Why, he giggled so
that he couldn't even have eaten a mosquito with mustard on.
"Come on, now!" suddenly cried the cricket to Uncle Wiggily.
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