More Rabbit Adventure Stories With Uncle Wiggily-Book2-Pt 12

We continue with the new book of Uncle Wiggily stories. Uncle Wiggily goes searching for his fortune. Here are more stories about the lovely adventures of a kind, gentlemanly elderly rabbit & all his animal friends, nieces & nephews. Uncle Wiggily’s Fortune…will he find it? Maybe so…eventually! And what is he looking for? This time we bring you, Part 12 of Book 2 - the NEW book of stories.

Transcript

Hi,

It's Stefania and we're back with Uncle Wiggly's Fortune.

If you remember the last time the bear had the red monkey trapped in a tree and the red monkey was saved by Buddy Pig,

The guinea pig,

Because he whistled so loudly the monkey thought the dogs were after him.

So now let's move on to the next chapter.

Uncle Wiggly and Munchy Trot.

Weren't you frightened when you were up in the tree and the bear was coming after you?

Asked Buddy Pig of the red monkey as he and Uncle Wiggly were walking along.

Frightened?

I should say I was,

Explained the monkey.

I thought I'd never get down again to help look for Uncle Wiggly's fortune.

I can never thank you enough for whistling and scaring that savage bear.

How did you do it?

Oh it is very simple,

Said the guinea pig boy as he modestly looked down at the ground.

It's this way?

Then he whistled through his teeth again slowly and faster just to show how it was done.

I wish I could learn how to do that,

Said the monkey.

If I ever get caught up a tree again by a bear I could whistle for myself and make believe some hunters dogs were coming to help me.

I'll show you,

Said Buddy Pig and he told the monkey how to put his tongue against his teeth and how to blow through his lips.

Well the red monkey tried it and he tried again but he couldn't seem to whistle.

Perhaps if I stand on my head I could do better,

He said and in a moment there he was standing on his head and trying to whistle upside down but still he couldn't do it.

Try hanging by your tail,

Suggested Buddy Pig and the little red chap did so but still it was of no use.

He hung there by his tail so long that Uncle Wiggly was afraid the monkey's head might fall off so he made him get down.

Then the red chap tried again and again but he couldn't whistle a bit and at last the old gentleman rabbit said,

I believe I know what the trouble is.

What?

Asked Buddy.

Why?

You see you have no tail,

Buddy and you are a good whistler,

Went on the rabbit for you know it's really so.

Guinea pigs have no tails though I'm not allowed to tell you the reason just yet.

You have no tail and you are a good whistler,

Said the rabbit again,

But the monkey has a long tail and he can't seem to whistle a bit.

The tail must make all the difference.

Hmm exclaimed a red monkey surprised like if I had to lose my tail to whistle I'll never do it.

I know what I can do instead.

What?

Asked Buddy Pig.

I can hire a green parrot to whistle for me,

Said the monkey.

Parrots can whistle for real or make believe dogs as good as a man can.

I'll take a parrot with me and he'll scare the bears.

Very good,

Said Uncle Wiggly,

For I would not like to see you lose your tail.

So the three friends traveled on for some distance until it was time for Buddy Pig to go home and with him Uncle Wiggly sent his love to all his friends and to Sammy and Suzy Little Tail also.

Well we don't seem to be finding your fortune very fast,

Spoke the red monkey after they had climbed up one hill and part of another and had looked under a lot of stones and several stumps.

No,

I guess we won't find it today,

Said the rabbit.

It was now getting on toward afternoon and Uncle Wiggly began thinking of where he would spend the night.

I know what to do,

Said the red monkey.

I'll make a little house here in the woods and we'll stay in that.

We'll build a fire and make believe we are camping out and while I am making the house out of sticks and leaves you can walk around and look for your fortune.

Very good,

Said the old gentleman rabbit and so he started off leaving the monkey to make the house in the woods.

Uncle Wiggly walked on and on but he didn't find his fortune and it was getting rather late.

He was just about to start back to where he had left the red monkey when all of a sudden he heard a crying in the woods.

Oh,

I know what that is,

Exclaimed the rabbit.

That is a baby fox and near him is the old poplar fox who wants to catch and eat me.

I'll not go near him but I'll hurry home.

So he started towards the monkey's house but the crying became louder and the rabbit thought that perhaps after all it might not be a baby fox and then before he could twinkle his nose more than seven times there was a rustling in the bushes and out came a little boy squirrel.

One of his legs was broken and he was slumping along on a piece of wood for a crutch.

Oh,

You poor little fellow,

Cried the rabbit.

You look just like Billy or Johnny Bushytail after a football game.

What has happened?

Oh,

A boy threw a stone at me and hurt me,

Answered the little squirrel.

I'm lost and I can't walk home and I don't know what to do.

I'll help you,

Spoke Uncle Wiggly kindly but when he tried to he found that his own rheumatism was so bad that he could hardly move and the little boy squirrel was so stiff that he could hardly walk and there they were both in the woods with night coming on and no way to get home.

Oh,

What shall we do?

Cried Uncle Wiggly and he wished the monkey would come along and just then,

If you will believe me,

There was another rustling in the bushes.

An out galloped munchy trot,

The strong pony boy.

Oh,

What is the trouble here?

He asked,

Switching his tail just like a wooden horse on the merry- go-round.

Oh,

We are both so lame that we can't walk,

Said Uncle Wiggly and we are a long way from the monkey's house.

What shall we do?

Yes,

Cried the little lame squirrel boy.

Oh,

What shall we do?

Don't say another word,

Cried munchy.

I'll take care of you.

Just get on my back and I'll soon take you to the monkey's house in the woods.

Then the pony boy knelt down so that Uncle Wiggly and the squirrel could get up on his back and then when they got up on munchy's back and were holding tightly to the saddle off the pony boy started through the woods galloping to the monkey's house.

Then a whole lot of mosquitoes swarmed out of the bushes and tried to bite Uncle Wiggly and the squirrel but munchy switched his tail at the stinging insects and away they scattered.

Then a big owl flew down out of a tree and tried to grab the squirrel but the pony trotted so fast that the owl was left behind.

And next a wolf tried to pull the rabbit off the horse but munchy tickled the savage creature in the ribs with his hoof and the wolf ran away sneezing.

Then the pony came safely to the house that the monkey had built in the woods and he and Uncle Wiggly and the squirrel stayed there in peace and quietness all night and they put some medicine and a bandage on the squirrel's hurt leg to make it well.

And the next day there was another adventure.

I'll tell you what it was.

The story will be about Uncle Wiggly and the Green Parrot.

Just wait for it.

Uncle Wiggly and the Parrot.

Uncle Wiggly was the first one to awaken in the little house that the monkey had built in the woods.

It was the morning after the day when Munchy Trot had brought the rabbit and the little squirrel boy back home on his back.

Well my rheumatism is somewhat better today said the old gentleman rabbit to himself as he stretched out first one leg and then the other to see if they hurt him.

He didn't have much pain so he started to make the fire to boil the coffee and some of the wood which he put on the fire was wet so that it smoked and the smoke got up the monkey's nose and made him sneeze so that he was awakened and he helped to get breakfast in a hurry.

Then in turn Munchy Trot woke up and next the squirrel boy.

His leg hurt him still very much but Uncle Wiggly and the monkey bounded up with some splints and some soft bark tying it with ribbon grass and then they all had breakfast and felt better.

But how am I to get home asked the little squirrel boy.

My mama and papa will worry about me I know.

Oh as to that said Munchy Trot swishing his long tail to keep the flies off the breakfast table I will take you home on my back.

Very good said Uncle Wiggly and I will go a little way with you and come back here.

Perhaps I may find part of my fortune in that way.

That's nice spoke the fat monkey and I'll stay here and get dinner and say Uncle Wiggly if you happen to see a green parrot just bring him along to whistle for me.

I will promised the old gentleman rabbit.

Then he helped the little lame squirrel boy up on the ponies back and off Munchy started with Uncle Wiggly hopping along aside.

The rabbit looked for his fortune but he couldn't find it and pretty soon he had come as far as he thought he ought to go so he said he would start back.

Goodbye called the lame squirrel boy and thank you for being so kind to me.

Perhaps you may find your fortune on your way back.

Or if you don't find that spoke Munchy as he waved goodbye with his long tail perhaps you will find the green parrot.

Then Uncle Wiggly 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 in a house up on a hill for birds like me were the style you see though I sometimes felt quite ill.

I had seeds to eat in a seed dish neat but they didn't agree with me so I flew away on a rainy day to live in a green wood tree.

My that's rather strange said Uncle Wiggly.

I don't see how a sailor lad could live in a cage nor yet perch in a tree.

I must look into this perhaps it may be the beginning of my fortune.

So he crept along very softly and there perched on the limb of a tree was a nice green parrot scratching his crooked beak with his left foot.

Hoi how do you do how are the oysters have you been swimming past the crackers please right this way for your hot ice cream cones.

Quickly cried the green parrot in a shrill voice.

Well of all things exclaimed the rabbit I am pretty well thank you but I don't know anything about oysters and I haven't been in swimming.

I don't see any crackers to pass and as for hot ice cream cones I never heard of them.

Ha ha laughed the parrot.

Never mind me that was only my joking way but I'm glad to see you anyhow.

I was only fooling about the hot ice cream cones.

Listen and I'll sing a song for you and then and there without even wiggling his tail once he whistled a song called never drop a penny down a crack in the boardwalk.

How do you like that asked the parrot as he stood on one leg and stretched out his wings.

It was very fine said the rabbit and I believe you are just what I am looking for.

Will you kindly come and whistle for the monkey so the bears won't catch him.

I certainly will spoke the parrot politely.

Show me the way.

I am very fond of monkeys.

I used to know one who could play five hand organs at once one with his tail.

This is a red monkey and he is a friend of the hand organ one said Uncle Wiggly as he hopped on ahead to show the green parrot the way.

Well pretty soon not so very long they came near to the place where the little house was.

They heard a curious hissing noise like a steam radiator sissing in the cold weather.

My what's that a snake?

Asked the parrot in alarm.

Uncle Wiggly looked through the bushes then he laughed it's only the monkey trying to whistle said the rabbit but he can't do it.

Poor fellow spoke the green parrot kindly.

I'll whistle for him and he did so.

At first the monkey was frightened thinking some real dogs were coming at the sound of the whistle but then Uncle Wiggly and the parrot popped out of the bushes laughing and they told the monkey who they were.

The rabbit explaining that the parrot had come to whistle and scare the bears away.

It's very kind of you said the red monkey and perhaps in time I may learn to whistle a little myself but come now and have dinner.

So the monkey and the parrot and Uncle Wiggly ate their lunch and in the afternoon they all looked for the old gentleman's fortune but they couldn't find it and that night something very strange happened as they were all sleeping in the little house which the monkey had built in the woods.

It was all dark and quiet when all of a sudden the fuzzy fox sneaked up.

He broke open the front window and he was just crawling through the hole to eat up the rabbit when the parrot quickly awakened by the feeling of the wind blowing on him through the broken glass.

Then he saw the burglar fox and he whistled for the make-believe pretend dogs and cried out fire,

Thieves,

Police,

Bean soup,

Trolley cars,

Ice cream cones,

Robbers,

Get out of here,

Take your tail with you,

Police,

Mud pies,

Coconut pudding,

Merry-go-rounds,

Look out,

Fire,

Fish hooks,

Automobiles,

Bang bang,

Whoop dee doo dee doo.

Well if you believe me that fuzzy fox was never so frightened in all his life before.

He thought a whole lot of soldiers and guns and dogs and police were after him and he jumped out of the window and ran off as fast as his legs would take him.

Then Uncle Wiggly and the green parrot and the red monkey went to sleep again and there's no more to the story as you can see for yourself.

But next time round I'll tell you the story about Uncle Wiggly and the hippity hop toad.

Bye for now.

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My parents read Uncle Wiggily to my brother and me 70 years ago. It is a delight to find him again. Thank you!