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  • STORY XI

    UNCLE WIGGILY AND LULU'S HAT

    "Uncle Wiggily, do you want to do something for me?" asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat1 lady housekeeper2, of the rabbit gentleman one day as he started out from his hollow stump3 bungalow4 to take a walk in the woods.

    "Do something for you, Nurse Jane? Why, of course, I want to," spoke5 Mr. Longears. "What is it?"

    "Just take this piece of pie over to Mrs. Wibblewobble, the duck lady," went on Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy. "I promised to let her taste how I made apple pie out of cabbage leaves."

    "And very cleverly you do it, too," said Uncle Wiggily, with a polite bow. "I know, for I have eaten some myself. I will gladly take this pie to Mrs. Wibblewobble," and off through the woods Uncle Wiggily started with it.

    He soon reached the duck lady's house, and Mrs. Wibblewobble was very glad indeed to get the piece of Nurse Jane's pie.

    "I'll save a bit for Lulu and Alice, my two little duck girls," said Mrs. Wibblewobble.

    "Why, aren't they home?" asked Uncle Wiggily.

    "No, Lulu has gone over to a little afternoon party which Nannie Wagtail, the goat girl, is having, and Alice has gone to see Grandfather Goosey Gander. Jiminie is off playing ball with Jackie and Peetie Bow Wow, the puppy dog boys, so I am home alone."

    "I hope you are not lonesome," said Uncle Wiggily.

    "Oh, no, thank you," answered the duck lady. "I have too much to do. Thank Nurse Jane for her pie."

    "I shall," Uncle Wiggily promised, as he started off through the woods again. He had not gone far before, all of a sudden, he did not stoop low enough as he was hopping6 under a tree and, the first thing he knew, his tall silk hat was knocked off his head and into a puddle7 of water.

    "Oh, dear!" cried Uncle Wiggily, as he picked up his hat. "I shall never be able to wear it again until it is cleaned and ironed. And how I can have that done out here in the woods is more than I know."

    "Ah, but I know," said a voice in a tree overhead.

    "Who are you, and what do you know?" asked the bunny uncle, surprised like and hopeful.

    "I know where you can have your silk hat cleaned and ironed smooth," said the voice. "I am the tailor bird, and I do those things. Let me have your hat, Uncle Wiggily, and I'll fix it for you."

    Down flew the kind bird, and Uncle Wiggily gave him the hat.

    "But what shall I wear while I'm waiting?" asked the bunny uncle. "It is too soon for me to be going about without my hat. I'll need something on my head while you are fixing my silk stovepipe, dear Tailor Bird."

    "Oh, that is easy," said the bird. "Just pick some of those thick, green leafy ferns and make yourself a hat of them."

    "The very thing!" cried Uncle Wiggily. Then he fastened some woodland ferns together and easily made himself a hat that would keep off the sun, if it would not keep off the rain. But then it wasn't raining.

    "There you are, Uncle Wiggily!" called the tailor bird at last. "Your silk hat is ready to wear again."

    "Thank you," spoke the bunny uncle, as he laid aside the ferns, also thanking them. "Now I am like myself again," and he hopped8 on through the woods, wondering whether or not he was to have any more adventures that day.

    Mr. Longears had not gone on very much farther before he heard a rustling9 in the bushes, and then a sad little voice said:

    "Oh, dear! How sad! I don't believe I'll go to the party now! All the others would make fun of me! Oh, dear! Oh, dear!"

    "Ha! That sounds like trouble!" said the bunny uncle. "I must see what it means."

    He looked through the bushes and there, sitting on a log, he saw Lulu Wibblewobble, the little duck girl, who was crying very hard, the tears rolling down her yellow bill.

    "Why, Lulu! What's the matter?" asked Uncle Wiggily.

    "Oh, dear!" answered the little quack-quack child. "I can't go to the party; that's what's the matter."

    "Why can't you go?" Uncle Wiggily wanted to know. "I saw your mother a little while ago, and she said you were going."

    "I know I was going," spoke Lulu, "but I'm not now, for the wind blew my nice new hat into the puddle of muddy water, and now look at it!" and she held up a very much beraggled and debraggled hat of lace and straw and ribbons and flowers.

    "Oh, dear! That hat is in a bad state, to be sure," said Uncle Wiggily. "But don't cry, Lulu. Almost the same thing happened to me and the tailor bird made my hat as good as ever. Mine was all mud, too, like yours. Come, I'll take you to the tailor bird."

    "You are very kind, Uncle Wiggily," spoke Lulu, "but if I go there I may not get back in time for the party, and I want to wear my new hat to it, very much."

    "Ha! I see!" cried the bunny uncle. "You want to look nice at the party. Well, that's right, of course. And I don't believe the tailor bird could clean your hat in time, for it is so fancy he would have to be very careful of it.

    "But you can do as I did, make a hat out of ferns, and wear that to Nannie Wagtail's party. I'll help you."

    "Oh, how kind you are!" cried the little duck girl.

    So she went along with Uncle Wiggily to where the ferns grew in the wood, leaving her regular hat at the tailor bird's nest to be cleaned and pressed.

    Uncle Wiggily made Lulu the cutest hat out of fern leaves. Oh, I wish you could have seen it. There wasn't one like it even in the five and ten-cent store.

    "Wear that to Nannie's party, Lulu," said the rabbit gentleman, and Lulu did, the hat being fastened to her feathers with a long pin made from the stem of a fern. And when Lulu reached the party all the animal girls cried out:

    "Oh, what a sweet, lovely, cute, dear, cunning, swell10 and stylish11 hat! Where did you get it?"

    "Uncle Wiggily made it," answered Lulu, and all the girls said they were going to get one just like it. And they did, so that fern hats became very fashionable and stylish in Woodland, and Lulu had a fine time at the party.

    So this teaches us that even a mud puddle is of some use, and if the rubber plant doesn't stretch too far, and tickle12 the gold fish under the chin making it sneeze, the next story will be about Uncle Wiggily and the snow drops.



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    1 muskrat [ˈmʌskræt] G6CzQ   第12级
    n.麝香鼠
    参考例句:
    • Muskrat fur almost equals beaver fur in quality. 麝鼠皮在质量上几乎和海獭皮不相上下。
    • I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice. 我看到一只麝鼠从冰里面钻出来。
    2 housekeeper [ˈhaʊski:pə(r)] 6q2zxl   第8级
    n.管理家务的主妇,女管家
    参考例句:
    • A spotless stove told us that his mother is a diligent housekeeper. 炉子清洁无瑕就表明他母亲是个勤劳的主妇。
    • She is an economical housekeeper and feeds her family cheaply. 她节约持家,一家人吃得很省。
    3 stump [stʌmp] hGbzY   第8级
    n.残株,烟蒂,讲演台;v.砍断,蹒跚而走
    参考例句:
    • He went on the stump in his home state. 他到故乡所在的州去发表演说。
    • He used the stump as a table. 他把树桩用作桌子。
    4 bungalow [ˈbʌŋgələʊ] ccjys   第9级
    n.平房,周围有阳台的木造小平房
    参考例句:
    • A bungalow does not have an upstairs. 平房没有上层。
    • The old couple sold that large house and moved into a small bungalow. 老两口卖掉了那幢大房子,搬进了小平房。
    5 spoke [spəʊk] XryyC   第11级
    n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
    参考例句:
    • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company. 他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
    • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre. 辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
    6 hopping ['hɒpɪŋ] hopping   第7级
    n. 跳跃 动词hop的现在分词形式
    参考例句:
    • The clubs in town are really hopping. 城里的俱乐部真够热闹的。
    • I'm hopping over to Paris for the weekend. 我要去巴黎度周末。
    7 puddle [ˈpʌdl] otNy9   第10级
    n.(雨)水坑,泥潭
    参考例句:
    • The boy hopped the mud puddle and ran down the walk. 这个男孩跳过泥坑,沿着人行道跑了。
    • She tripped over and landed in a puddle. 她绊了一下,跌在水坑里。
    8 hopped [hɔpt] 91b136feb9c3ae690a1c2672986faa1c   第7级
    跳上[下]( hop的过去式和过去分词 ); 单足蹦跳; 齐足(或双足)跳行; 摘葎草花
    参考例句:
    • He hopped onto a car and wanted to drive to town. 他跳上汽车想开向市区。
    • He hopped into a car and drove to town. 他跳进汽车,向市区开去。
    9 rustling [ˈrʌslɪŋ] c6f5c8086fbaf68296f60e8adb292798   第9级
    n. 瑟瑟声,沙沙声 adj. 发沙沙声的
    参考例句:
    • the sound of the trees rustling in the breeze 树木在微风中发出的沙沙声
    • the soft rustling of leaves 树叶柔和的沙沙声
    10 swell [swel] IHnzB   第7级
    vi.膨胀,肿胀;增长,增强
    参考例句:
    • The waves had taken on a deep swell. 海浪汹涌。
    • His injured wrist began to swell. 他那受伤的手腕开始肿了。
    11 stylish [ˈstaɪlɪʃ] 7tNwG   第9级
    adj.流行的,时髦的;漂亮的,气派的
    参考例句:
    • He's a stylish dresser. 他是个穿着很有格调的人。
    • What stylish women are wearing in Paris will be worn by women all over the world. 巴黎女性时装往往会引导世界时装潮流。
    12 tickle [ˈtɪkl] 2Jkzz   第9级
    vt.搔痒,胳肢;使高兴;发痒;vi.觉得痒;(东西)使人发痒;n.搔痒,发痒
    参考例句:
    • Wilson was feeling restless. There was a tickle in his throat. 威尔逊只觉得心神不定。嗓子眼里有些发痒。
    • I am tickle pink at the news. 听到这消息我高兴得要命。

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