[CHAPTER II]
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE MARCH HARE
"Well, Uncle Wiggily, you certainly did have quite a time, didn't you," said Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper for the rabbit gentleman as they both sat on the porch of the hollow stump bungalow one morning. It was the day after the bunny rabbit had been caught in the mosquito hole, where he swelled up too big to get out, after eating cake from the glass box, as I told you in the first story.
Then Alice from Wonderland happened along and gave Uncle Wiggily a drink from a magical little bottle so that he grew small enough to crawl out of the hole again.
"Yes, I had a wonderful time with Alice," said the rabbit gentleman. "It was quite an adventure."
"What do you s'pose was in the cake to make you swell up so large?" asked Nurse Jane.
"Cream puffs," answered Uncle Wiggily. "They're very swell-like, you know."
"Of course," agreed Nurse Jane. "And what was in the bottle to make you grow smaller?"
"Alum water," Uncle Wiggily made reply. "That's very shrinking, you know, and puckery."
"Of course," spoke Nurse Jane again, "I might have guessed it. Now I suppose you're off again?"