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Uncle Wiggily was so tired and worn out after running for milk for the toad family that he couldn't travel very far that day to seek his fortune. He slept that night in a doghouse, where a kind puppy named Towser lived, and Towser covered the old gentleman rabbit up with leaves and straw and kept watch so that no one would hurt him.
God made you as full of fun as he has the rest of us, and a good deal fuller than many of your kind, and mine, too," and with this backhanded hit at the vinegar-visaged and acidulous-hearted of his own species, the deacon shuffled along the crisp, icy path toward the barn, while Towser gamboled through the deep snow and plunged into the huge, fleecy drifts in as merry a mood as his merry master.
"So then we rollicked for a ramps. I see the Majoress smile; she p'inted her finger toward us. "'S-sick 'em! says she. 'Sick 'em, Towser! "It would have been all right; we was playin' on velvet, and could have led that woman out of the store as easy as anything if that concussed Major hadn't 'a' come to in the wrong place.
"Towser!" spoke Harry Hazelton sharply. "I'm ashamed of you!" "You ought to be!" came the answer in another voice, and a surly one, at that. "Fred Ripley?" muttered Dick. "What on earth can he be doing here?" Unconsciously all of the picnickers hastened their steps. Then they came upon a truly ludicrous sight. Fred lay where he had been lying ever since ten o'clock that morning.
Then as he let the folds of canvas fall, a voice inside called angrily: "Quit that! I want to get out." It was Dave Darrin's voice, and Dave was the quickest-tempered one of the six boys. Fred knew that it behooved him to get away from the spot at once. There was a wriggling under the canvas. Ripley turned to flee. Gr-r-r-r! Towser stood barring his path.
In mediæval England the manufacture of cloth from the wool of the great flocks of sheep which fed on the pasture lands of the monasteries and other great houses, was the chief industry of the nation. This trade of wool-weaving has given us many surnames, such as Woolmer, Woolman, Carder, Kempster, Towser, Weaver, Webster, etc.
"Oh, he'll be drowned, sure!" cried Uncle Wiggily, who was much frightened. But, no. In a second up came Towser, shaking the water from his hair and eyes, and then he began swimming around as easily as a chicken can pick up corn. "Come on in, Uncle Wiggily," he called. "The water is fine." "Oh, I'm afraid!" said the rabbit.
You will send an answer. "I was just closing my letter when Lady Scrimmage came in; she tells me that Lady Towser is suited, and that you have no hopes of this situation. I have done my best.
The cat had recovered from her fright and lay quietly under the stove, and Towser sat upon the floor panting, with his mouth wide open, and looking so comical that Bobby thought he was actually laughing at the whole occurrence. And these were the words to the tune that Bobby composed that night: Hey, diddle, diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon!
And the green parrot, in his cage hanging in the kitchen, cried in his shrill voice: "No tramps allowed! Out you go! Sic him, Towser! Bow wow!" Bunny, Sue, Mart, and Lucile hurried into the kitchen after Miss Winkler. They saw her quickly take a broom from a corner.
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