"Now is our
chance to get away."
And before the alligator had stopped laughing they both hopped away in the
woods together, and so the bad scalery-ailery-tailery creature didn't get
either of them.
"My! it's a good thing you made him laugh," said the rabbit when they were
safely away.
"It's a good thing to make anybody laugh," said the black cricket, and
then he and Uncle Wiggily went on to seek the old gentleman rabbit's
fortune.
And in the next story, in case the sunshine doesn't make my pussy cat
sneeze and spill his milk, on the new door mat, I'll tell you all about
Uncle Wiggily and the busy bug.
STORY XI
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE BUSY BUG
Everywhere Uncle Wiggily and the black cricket went in the next few days,
every one was glad to see them. For they were both so jolly, and laughed
and joked so much along the road, that no one who heard them could be sad.
They came to one place where there was a boy sick with the toothache, and
his mamma had done everything for him that she could think of, even to
putting mustard on it, but still that boy's tooth ached.
Well, as soon as that boy saw the cricket and the old gentleman rabbit,
and heard them laugh, why the boy smiled, and then the pain, somehow,
seemed to be better, and he smiled some more, and then he laughed.
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