Come and see me
some time," he called to the rabbit.
"I will," said Uncle Wiggily. Then the man tied a rope around the
elephant's trunk and led him away, and the big fellow waved and flapped
his ears at the rabbit to say good-by.
"Now I must travel all alone once more," said Uncle Wiggily to himself, as
he hopped on through the woods. "And I do hope I find part of my fortune
to-day, even if it's only ten cents' worth."
Well, he was passing across a nice green field a little while after that
when, all of a sudden, he heard some voices talking. He looked all around,
but he couldn't see any one, and he wondered if perhaps there were fairies
about. Then he heard a voice say:
"Now, children, hop just as I do. Take a long breath and then hop, and be
very careful where you go."
Then Uncle Wiggily looked down in the grass, and he saw a mamma hoptoad
and a whole lot of her little toads hopping along. The mamma toad was
giving the little ones their morning lesson. And I just wish you could
have seen how nicely those tiny toads could hop. One little chap, named
Sylvester, hopped over a big stone, and his little sister, named
Clarabella, leaped over a stick with a nail in it and didn't get hurt a
bit.
"Ha! That is very good hopping! Very fine, indeed!" cried Uncle Wiggily,
waving his ears back and forth.
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