"How glad I am to get back home!"
She hurried in through the front door and no sooner was she inside than
she cried out:
"Come here! Come here, quickly, Uncle Wiggily! Did you ever see such a
sight in all your born days?"
"What is it?" asked the rabbit, as he hopped in, and he was half afraid
that there might be a burglar fox hiding in the pussy's house.
But it wasn't anything like that. Instead the rabbit saw the pussy
pointing to her bed, and there, right in the middle of the feather
pillows, were some eggs.
"The cowbird's eggs!" cried the kittie. "That's what she meant when she
said some one was going to be surprised. Indeed, I am the one who is
surprised. She brought her eggs here, thinking I would hatch them out for
her, but I'll not do it!"
So the pussy threw the eggs out of the window, on some soft straw, where
they wouldn't be broken, and pretty soon that cowbird came back, as angry
as a lion without any tail. And she grabbed up her eggs, and this time she
took them to the monkey, who played five hand-organs at once. And the
monkey was a good-natured sort of a chap, so he hatched out the cowbird's
eggs for her, and soon he had a lot of little calfbirds, and when they
grew up they gave him no end of trouble.
"Well, now you are safe home," said Uncle Wiggily to the pussy, "I will
travel on.
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