He hopped through the woods with the chicken children, and soon came to where the boy was asleep under a tree. It was a pine tree, with sticky gum oozing from the trunk and branches. And as soon as the bunny gentleman saw this gum he whispered:
"I have an idea! I'll teach this boy a lesson."
"How?" asked Charlie.
"I'll make him think he has the chicken-pox, or something worse," answered the bunny, with a silent laugh.
"Goodie!" cackled Arabella.
"Ha! Ha!" crowed Charlie.
"Quiet now, chicken children," whispered Uncle Wiggily. "Each of you pull me out a few loose feathers."
Charlie and Arabella did this. Then the bunny uncle took some of the soft gum from the pine tree, and put spots of it on the face and hands of the sleeping boy. Though he stirred a little, the boy did not awaken.
When the boy was well spotted with the sticky gum, Uncle Wiggily took the chicken feathers that Charlie and Arabella had plucked, and fastened these feathers on the boy's face and hands in the gum.