Then Uncle Wiggily hopped back toward where he had left the monkey getting dinner at the little house in the woods. And, just as the old gentleman rabbit was passing under a butternut tree, he heard a voice singing this little song:
"Oh, I'm a jolly, jolly sailor lad,
I sail the ocean blue.
And if you're glad, and not very bad,
I'd like to sail with you.
Oh, it's yo-ho-ho when the wind does blow,
And the waves run mountains high.
We will skip along and sing a song
Beneath the bright blue sky.
"Oh, once I lived in a big wire cage,