"But I have no rope," objected Susie, though she felt a little more happy. "I can't jump without a rope."
"Tut! tut! Do not think about such a little thing as that," went on her uncle. "I will have a rope for you in a few minutes. Come with me."
Just then Sammie came along, and, after he had had some corn bread with preserved sweet cabbage leaves on, he went with his sister and uncle in the woods.
"I am going to learn to jump rope," said Susie, quite proudly. "Don't you want to learn, Sammie?"
"No," he said, "that's only for girls. I'd rather play marbles and fly a kite, but I'll turn for you, if we can find a rope," for, you see, Sammie was always kind to his sister.
"We will have a rope in a minute," remarked Uncle Wiggily. "I know where to find it."
Just then who should come walking along but Possum Pinktoes, and, as soon as he saw the rabbits, he pretended to go to sleep.
"Oh, you do not need to go to sleep, and make believe that you are dead," spoke Sammie. "We would not hurt you for the world."
Then Possum Pinktoes, who was only pretending to sleep, as he always did when he thought he was in danger, opened first one eye, then the other.
"I am going to learn to jump rope," said Susie to him.