Uncle Wiggily, the old gentleman rabbit, was out in the yard of his hollow stump¹ bungalow² one morning, putting a new hair ribbon on his airship, so that it might flutter in the wind and look pretty. All of a sudden Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the nice muskrat³ lady housekeeper⁴, called to him.

 

“Oh, Uncle Wiggily, would you mind going to the store for me?” she asked.

 

“Not at all,” answered the rabbit gentleman politely. “What is it you wish?” And he took off his tall silk hat and bowed.

 

“I need a loaf of bread, some sugar and a bottle of milk,” answered the muskrat lady.

 

“Say no more!” Uncle Wiggily exclaimed, with another polite bow. “You shall have them at once. I will go to the store right away in my airship.”

 

“Here is the money,” went on Nurse Jane. “Be careful not to lose it.”

 

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“I’ll try,” answered Uncle Wiggily with a laugh.

 

Off he started for the store, sailing above the tops of the trees in his airship, which was made from one of Nurse Jane’s old clothes baskets, some toy circus balloons to lift it in the air, a Japanese umbrella to keep off the rain, and an electric fan, that went around whizzie-izzie. The electric fan pushed the airship along through the air, you see.

 

Well, Uncle Wiggily had not gone very far before, all of a sudden, something happened to his airship. The electric fan became all twisted up in the balloons, and the sofa cushions, which were in the clothes basket, to make a soft place for Uncle Wiggily to fall out on, in case of accidents—these sofa cushions began turning somersaults, and the first thing the rabbit gentleman knew he himself, was falling down.

 

Down and down he went, faster and faster. The sofa cushions toppled out of the basket, by themselves, and Uncle Wiggily said:

 

“Well, I think I myself am to be bumped very hard this time!”

 

But he was not. Just then, down below on the ground, there came along a

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