hing next week. Oh, I do seem to have the worst luck; don't I?"

"We will get you out," Lulu said to him, and then she and her brother went
to the aid of the poor old duck. They pushed this way and that way, and
they pulled that way and this way, and they lifted up on the pieces of
sticks, and they pushed down on them, but it was no use. Poor Grandfather
Goosey-Gander was stuck fast there, and I think it was a shame, but it
couldn't be helped. Oh my no, and a bit of peppermint candy besides!

"Well, I guess I will have to stay here and die," said the discouraged old
duck, and he felt so badly that he wept. Lulu and Jimmie cried also, they
felt so sorry. The three of them cried, and their tears were so many that
if they had cried long enough there would have been quite a pond there,
and they could have gone in swimming. That is, of course, all but
Grandfather Goosey-Gander, and he couldn't swim for he was held fast. But
they didn't weep long enough.

"Let's try once more," said Lulu, after a while, and then she and Jimmie
tried harder than ever to get grandfather's leg out. But they couldn't.

"If I only had a saw!" cried Jimmie, "I could get him loose."

"Ha! perhaps I can help you!" suddenly exclaimed a voice.

Then, as quickly as you can break an egg by dropping it on the floor (only
of course you must not do it without permission), who should appear but
Nurse Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy, the muskrat. She was out walking with Sammie and
Susie Littletail.

"Oh, somebody do please help me!" cried Grandfather Goosey-Gander. "I've
lost my glasses, my leg is caught, and I have a pain in my back. Oh, oh,
oh!"

"I'll gnaw through those sticks in a jiffy!" cried Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy, for a
jiffy is very quick time indeed. Oh, yes, and a broken down couch besides!

So, telling Sammie and Susie Littletail to stand back, and calling to
Jimmie and Lulu to remain with them, the muskrat nurse set to work to free
Grandfather Goosey-Gander. Her teeth were like the chisels the carpenter
uses and in a few seconds the old duck's leg was free. Oh, how glad he
was, and how thankful to Nurse Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy! Of course the duck and
rabbit children also were glad.

Then Jane gnawed out a little crutch for grandfather to walk with, as he
was a trifle lame, and what do you think? Why, Susie Littletail found his
glasses for him; and Sammie and Jimmie rubbed his back so nicely that the
pain all went out of that. Now I call that doing something don't