"I could hardly do better myself."
"Oh, it's very kind of you to say so," said the mamma toad. "Now,
children, give a big hop for Uncle Wiggily."
Well, they all took long breaths, and they were just going to hop when the
old gentleman rabbit suddenly called:
"Look out! Hold on! Don't jump!"
They all stopped quickly, and the mamma toad wanted to know what was the
matter.
"Why, there is a big cow walking along," said the rabbit, for he could see
over the top of the grass better than could the toads, and could watch the
big cow coming. "If that cow stepped on you, why, you would never hop
again," said the rabbit, and then he led the toads out of danger.
"Oh, I'm ever so much obliged to you," said the mamma toad to the rabbit.
"You saved our lives."
Then she had all the little toads thank the old gentleman rabbit, and the
mamma toad asked him to come to her house for dinner. Uncle Wiggily went,
but the toad's house was so small that he couldn't get in, until he had
made it bigger by scratching away some of the dirt around the front door.
Then he had a very good dinner, and he stayed all night at the toad
family's house and watched the little ones hop some more, and he and the
papa toad talked about the weather.
Well, in the morning when Uncle Wiggily got up and washed his face and
paws, and combed out his whiskers, he suddenly heard all the little toads
crying.
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