Well, pretty soon, in a little while, not so very long, all of a sudden
the old gentleman rabbit heard a sniffing-sniffing noise in the woods. And
then there was a rustling in the bushes.
"Ha, hum!" exclaimed the rabbit. "Perhaps that may be a bear. I had better
look out for myself."
He started to hop softly away, so the bear, or whatever it was, wouldn't
hear him, but he was too late. In an instant out of the bushes popped
something big and black and shaggy, and the rabbit, taking one look at it,
saw that it was a big dog.
"New is the time for me to run!" cried Uncle Wiggily. "That dog will eat
me up, sure pop!"
Away hopped the old gentleman rabbit, his heart going "pitter-patter-pat,"
he was so frightened. On and on he ran down a path in the woods.
"Here, come back here! Come back!" cried the dog.
"Indeed, I will not," answered Uncle Wiggily. "I know what you want to do.
You want to eat me."
"No, I don't, honestly!" cried the dog. "But come back, for if you run any
farther on that road you'll fall into a lake and be drowned."
"Humph! I don't believe that!" cried the rabbit. "You are saying that to
scare me," and on he hopped faster than ever.
"Come back! Come back!" cried the dog again, but Uncle Wiggily wouldn't.
My! how fast he did hop, until, all of a sudden, as he returned around the
corner of a stump, he saw a lake of water right in front of him.
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