"
"First, let me fill your valise with something to eat," said the kittie
cat, and she did so, and then the rabbit hopped on. He looked all over for
his fortune, but he couldn't find it, and pretty soon it got dark night
and he went to sleep in a hollow stump.
"Surely, I will find my fortune to-day," thought Uncle Wiggily, as he
arose the next morning, and combed out his whiskers. It was a bright,
beautiful sunshiny morning, and everything was cheerful, and the birds
were singing. But, in spite of all that, something happened to the rabbit.
He was just going past a berry bush, and he was reaching up to pick off
some of the red raspberries, when all at once a sharp claw was thrust out
from the bush and a grab was made for the rabbit.
"Now, I've got you!" cried a savage voice.
"No, you haven't!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily, and he jumped back just as a
savage wolf sprang out at him.
"Oh, don't worry, I'll get you yet!" went on the wolf and he made another
spring. But the rabbit was ready for him and ran down the hill and the
wolf ran after him, howling at the top of his grillery-growlery voice,
for he was very hungry.
My! how Uncle Wiggily did run. And the wolf ran also, and he was catching
up to the rabbit, and probably would have eaten him all up, but just then
a kind bumble bee who knew Uncle Wiggily flew off a tree branch and stung
that wolf on the end of his nose.
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