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Illustrator: Lang Campbell

Release date: August 28, 2023

Original publication: Newark: Charles E. Graham & Co, 1925

THE SECOND ADVENTURES OF UNCLE WIGGILY THE BUNNY RABBIT GENTLEMAN AND HIS MUSKRAT LADY HOUSEKEEPER

BY HOWARD R. GARIS

PICTURES BY LANG CAMPBELL

CHARLES E. GRAHAM & CO. NEWARK, N.J. :: NEW YORK.

COPYRIGHT 1925 BY CHARLES E. GRAHAM & CO.

THE SECOND ADVENTURES OF UNCLE WIGGILY AND HIS MUSKRAT LADY HOUSEKEEPER

"Hurray! Hurrah!" cried Uncle Wiggily in his hollow stump bungalow one day, as he twinkled his pink nose and danced around with his red, white and blue striped rheumatism crutch that Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy had gnawed out of a cornstalk. "Why are you so joyful?" asked the muskrat lady housekeeper. "Because it will soon be Thanksgiving," answered the bunny rabbit gentleman, "and you will make me a pumpkin pie." Nurse Jane laughed and said: "I'll make you a pie if you will get me the pumpkin." Uncle Wiggily danced again and said: "I'm going to hop along now and find one. I'll ask Uncle Butter, the goat, or some of my friends, to go with me. I'll take a wheelbarrow in which to give the pumpkin a ride." Nurse Jane told Uncle Wiggily to bring a large pumpkin, and he said he would. "I feel so jolly, because Thanksgiving is coming, that my rheumatism is cured!" he cried. "I will not need my crutch." So he left his crutch on the piano and started off with the wheelbarrow. "I hope you have a funny adventure," said Nurse Jane.

Uncle Wiggily had not hopped very far, trundling his wheelbarrow, before he reached a field where grew many golden, yellow pumpkins. "Ah ha!" joyfully cried the bunny, "one of these will be just what I want for Nurse Jane to make a pie." Uncle Wiggily rolled a large pumpkin up on the wheelbarrow and started back to his hollow stump bungalow. Just as he reached the house where Uncle Butter, the goat gentleman lived, the rabbit bumped the wheelbarrow into a stone. "Oh, dear!" sighed the bunny, "it's broken!" Uncle Butter, looking over the fence, said: "That's too bad! But never mind. We can put a stick through the pumpkin, fasten a rope to the stick and roll the pumpkin home." They started up hill, pulling the pumpkin. "This is hard work!" cried Uncle Wiggily. They were nearly at the top of the hill when something happened. All of a sudden the pumpkin broke loose.

Down the hill rolled the golden, yellow Thanksgiving vegetable. "Ouch! Did you bump your nose?" asked Uncle Wiggily of his friend the goat. "I certainly did!" bleated Uncle Butter. "But never mind! Jump up! We must chase after that pumpkin if Nurse Jane is to make it into a pie." Down the hill raced Uncle Wiggily and Uncle Butter. Before they could get hold of it, the pumpkin rolled into a clump of grass and stopped. "There! We don't need to chase it any more," said Uncle Wiggily. "I'm glad of it," bleated the goat. "Let's sit down on the log and rest." Before they knew it Uncle Butter and Uncle Wiggily were fast asleep. Then along came Curly and Floppy Twistytail, the piggie boys. "Let's make a Jack o' Lantern out of this pumpkin!" grunted Floppy. With their knives the little pigs carved a face on the pumpkin. They set the Jack o' Lantern on a funny old stump. Then a Squiggle Bug tickled Uncle Wiggily awake.

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