8. Johnnie and Billie shook down so many of the big horse chestnuts in their stickery green husks, that the Bob Cat was covered almost over his head. Every time the Bob Cat moved and tried to get out from beneath the nuts, they only pricked him the harder. “Oh, wow!” howled the bad chap! “Come on!” cried Johnnie to Billie as they scrambled down the tree. “Let’s untie Uncle Wiggily and run!”
9. While the Bob Cat was trying to crawl out from beneath the pile of stickery horse chestnuts, Johnnie and Billie quickly loosened the grape vine ropes from around Uncle Wiggily. None of the sharp nuts had fallen on the bunny gentleman. “Good-bye, old Bob Cat!” cried the squirrel boys, as they tossed a few more nuts on the pile, to make sure the bad chap wouldn’t get out and chase them. But he couldn't!
And if the egg beater doesn’t try to turn the rubber plant into an
umbrella for the gold fish, the next pictures and story
will tell how
UNCLE WIGGILY WENT ONE DAY, HIS BASKET
TO FILL WITH FLOWERS OF MAY. AND, THOUGH HE
GATHERED BLOSSOMS BRIGHT, HE ALSO HAD A TERRIBLE FIGHT.
Uncle Wiggily and Nurse Jane Gather May Flowers
1. One day Uncle Wiggily invited Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy to come with him to the woods. “We shall gather a basket of May flowers,” said the bunny rabbit. “Yes, and I suppose I shall catch cold and have the sniffle-snuffles,” laughed the muskrat lady housekeeper. “But, come along. Perhaps we shall have some adventures.” So, in the woods, the bunny gentleman and Nurse Jane gathered flowers.