And if the electric fan doesn’t blow the hat off the head of the tack
so the egg beater gets all sunburned when it washes the dishes, the
next pictures and story will tell how
UNCLE WIGGILY HELPED NURSE
JANE WITH THE HOUSE CLEANING. AND IT IS
A GOOD THING HE DID, OR HE MIGHT HAVE LOST HIS SOUSE.
Once upon a time, not so very many years ago, there happened to meet, in the woods, the Pipsisewah, the Skeezicks, the Skuddlemagoon, the Boozap, the Blue Nosed Babboon and the Fuzzy Fox. “I don’t know how you feel about it, friends,” gargled the Pip, “but I am hungry for some of Uncle Wiggily’s souse!” They all said they were. “Then,” went on the Pip, “let’s go, one after another, to his hollow stump bungalow and try to get some. He may fool one of us but he can not fool us all! We’ll take turns trying to catch him.”
“My goodness me sakes alive and some strawberry lollypops!” cried the bunny rabbit gentleman, as he came home to his hollow stump bungalow. “What are you doing, Nurse Jane?” The muskrat lady said she was doing the fall house cleaning. “Then it is time I helped you,” said the rabbit gentleman. “It is not right that I should be off having fun, looking for adventures, while you work here at home. I’ll get on my old clothes and help you. I have had no adventures today. Now I may get one or two.” And just you wait.
Nurse Jane said it was very kind of Uncle Wiggily to wish to help her. So, after he had put on old clothes, he began to sweep. And just about this time the Pipsisewah, who was going to be the first to try to get the bunny’s souse, rushed up to the hollow stump bungalow. “Now I’ve got you!” cried the Pip to Uncle Wiggily, but the brave rabbit gentleman, with the broom, swept such a cloud of dust in the Pip’s eyes that the bad chap sneezed a back somersault, and had to run.
“Are you all right, Uncle Wiggily?” asked Nurse Jane, as she heard the noise. “Yes, I drove the Pip away. He didn’t get my souse,” answered the rabbit. “Maybe he didn’t, but I’ll get some,” snickered the Skeezicks. “I’ll climb in through the window.” But just as the Skeezicks was climbing in, Nurse Jane asked Uncle Wiggily to empty a pail of soap suds for her. “I’ll throw it out the window,” said the bunny gentleman. And he did—right in the face of the Skee. “Oh wow!” howled the bad chap.