“I know I did,” answered the bunny uncle, “but no adventure happened to me then. I don’t really count it a good day unless I have had an adventure. So I’ll go walking again, and perhaps I may find one. If I do, I’ll come home and tell you all about it.”
“All right,” said Nurse Jane. “You are a funny rabbit, to be sure! Going off in the woods, looking for adventures when you might sit quietly here on the bungalow front porch.”
“That’s just it!” laughed Uncle Wiggily. “I don’t like to be too quiet. Off I go!”
“I hope you have a nice adventure!” Nurse Jane called after him.
“Thank you,” answered Uncle Wiggily, politely.
Away over the fields and through the woods went the bunny uncle, looking on all sides for an adventure, when, all of a sudden he heard behind him a sound that went:
“Honk! Honk! Honkity-honk-honk!”
“Ha! That must be a wild goose!” thought the rabbit gentleman.
So he looked up in the air, over his head, where the wild geese always fly, but, instead of seeing any of the big birds, Uncle Wiggily felt something whizz past him, and again he heard the loud “Honk-honk!” noise, and then he sneezed, for a lot of dust from the road flew up his nose.
“My!” he heard some one cry. “We nearly ran over a rabbit! Did you see?”