Then a voice cried:
"Here, you bad snake, let go of Uncle Wiggily."
And bless my hat! If the elephant didn't rush up, just in time, and he
grabbed hold of that snake's tail in his trunk, and unwound the snake from
around the rabbit, and then the elephant with a long swing of his trunk
threw the snake so high up in the air that I guess he hasn't yet come
down.
"I was just in time to save you!" said the elephant to Uncle Wiggily.
"Here, eat this ice cream cone and you'll feel better."
So the rabbit did this, and his breath came back and he was all right
again, but he made up his mind never to try to tickle a crawly thing again
until he was sure it wasn't a snake.
So that's all for the present, if you please, but in case my fur hat
doesn't sleep out in the hammock all night, and catch cold in the head so
that it sneezes and wakes up the alarm clock, I'll tell you next about
Uncle Wiggily and the water lilies.
STORY XVI
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE WATER LILIES
Uncle Wiggily was hopping along through the woods one day, and pretty
soon, as he went past a cute little house, made out of corncobs, he heard
some one calling to him.
"Oh, Mr. Rabbit," a voice said, "have you seen anything of my little
girl?" And there stood a nice mamma cat, looking anxiously about.
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