STORY IV
UNCLE WIGGILY ON A RAFT
"Well, I think I will be traveling along now," said Uncle Wiggily to the bird family the next morning after he had had the adventure with the rat. "I must have another try at finding my fortune. And, perhaps, since you sang such a nice song for me yesterday, you little birds will sing another as I am leaving."
"Of course they will," said their mamma, so she gave a few trills and chords to start them off, and the birdies sang this:
"Dear old Uncle Wiggily,
We wish that you could stay
And live near our nest always,
To drive the rats away.
"But if you now must leave us,