ied carrots on top.

And that's all to this story, if you please, but in case a red bird brings
me some green flower seeds to plant in my garden so I can grow some
lollypops, I'll tell you next about Uncle Wiggily and the milkman.

STORY XX

UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE MILKMAN

Well, now I guess we're all ready for the story of the chicken who tried
to roll an egg up hill, and it fell down, and was broken into forty-'leven
pieces and the monkey--Oh dear! Did you ever hear of such a thing? I guess
I must have turned over two pages in the story book instead of one, for
to-night I'm going to tell you about Uncle Wiggily and the milkman, and
not about the chicken and the egg at all. That comes in later.

Let's see then, we left the old gentleman rabbit just after he had met the
Phoebe birds, didn't we? Well, a few days after that, as Uncle Wiggily was
hopping along with the elephant, who had come back to him again, now and
then, when he was tired, taking a ride on the back of the big fellow, all
of a sudden they heard a voice crying:

"Ah, ha! Now I have you!"

"My! What's that?" asked the old gentleman rabbit.

"It must be somebody after us," answered the elephant. "But don't you be
afraid, Uncle Wiggily, I'll take care of you, and not let them hurt you.
Just get behind me."

So the rabbit got behind the big elephant, and, would you believe it? you
couldn't see Uncle Wiggily at all, not even if you were to put on the
strongest kind of spectacles, such as Grandma wears. For he was hidden
behind the elephant.

Then, in another moment a man with a long rope came bursting through the
bushes, and he ran straight toward the elephant.

"Now I have you!" cried the man again. "You must come right back to the
circus with me."

"Oh, it's you they want, and not me," remarked Uncle Wiggily, and then he
wasn't afraid any more, and felt better, for he knew that he could still
travel on and seek his fortune.

"Yes, they're after me," said the elephant sadly. "I guess I'll have to
leave you, Uncle Wiggily. Do you want me to go with you, Mr. Man?"

"Yes, we want you back in the circus show."

"Will I have all the peanuts I want?" asked the elephant.

"Oh, yes," promised the man, "you may have a bushel and a pint every day,
besides a pailful of pink lemonade."

"Then I'll come," said the elephant, "though I would like to have Uncle
Wiggily come also. But he still has his fortune to find. Come and see me
some time," he