I was only trying to break off a small piece for my fortune."
"Wow! Oh, wow!" cried the wushky-woshky, as savage as savage could be, and
he gnashed the teeth in all three of his mouths, and he lashed his two
tails on the ground. "I'm going to catch you!" he called to the rabbit.
"Not if I know it you won't catch me," said Uncle Wiggily bravely, and off
he hopped down the hill.
"Yes, I will catch you!" cried the wushky-woshky, and off he hopped on his
one crinkly leg after the rabbit. Faster and faster hopped Uncle Wiggily,
but still faster and faster hopped the wushky-woshky.
"Oh, he'll surely catch me!" thought the rabbit. "I wonder what I can do?
I know. I'll open my valise, and I'll scatter on the ground my nice lunch
that Aunt Lettie put up for me, and the wushky-woshky will stop to eat the
good things, and then I can get away."
So the rabbit did this. Out on the ground from the valise tumbled all the
nice carrot and lettuce sandwiches. But the savage wushky-woshky gobbled
them up with three mouthfuls, and didn't stop hopping after Uncle Wiggily
on his one crinkly leg.
"Oh, he'll surely catch me now!" cried the rabbit.
"No, he won't! Jump up in the air, and come down inside of me!" cried a
voice, and Uncle Wiggily saw a nice blackberry bush waving its long arms
at him.
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