So Uncle Wiggily said good-by to the kind berry bush, and traveled on once more to seek his fortune.
"Watch out for the wushky-woshky," called the bush to the rabbit, as she waved her friendly stickery branches at him.
"I will," he said, and then he passed up over the hill and out of sight.
The first place he came to was an old hollow stump, where an old owl had once lived. The rabbit looked down inside the stump, but there was no fortune there.
The second place he came to was a curious little house built of bark, where an old dog, who was a friend to Peetie and Jackie Bow Wow, used to live, but the old dog was away on his vacation at Ocean Grove, so he wasn't at home.
"Perhaps there is a fortune in here," thought the rabbit, but there wasn't any and he went on.
Now the third place he came to was a little house, made out of clothespins, where a pussy cat lived, and the pussy wasn't home, for she had just gone to the store to get some milk.
But the rabbit didn't know this, so he went inside the house to see if there was any fortune there. And the first thing he saw on the mantelpiece was a tin bank, and when he shook it something inside of it rattled, and when he peeped in Uncle Wiggily saw a whole lot of pennies in the tin bank.
"Oh fine!" he cried, "now I have my fortune at last. Some one has gone away and left all this money, so I might as well take it."
Well, he was just putting the bank full of pennies into his valise, when the pussy came back with the bottle of milk.