all tree, and then you couldn't get it. But I
would pull the tree down for you."

"That would be fine!" cried Uncle Wiggily. "I'll be glad to have you
travel with me."

So they said good-by to the monkey, and off they started together, the
rabbit and the elephant. They talked of many things, about how hot it
was, and whether there would be rain soon, and about how much ice cream
cones cost, and sometimes what a little bit of ice cream the man puts in
the cones when he is in a hurry.

"Speaking of ice cream cones," said the elephant, "makes me hungry for
some. I wish I had one."

"I wish I had one also," spoke Uncle Wiggily. "You would have to have a
very large one, though, Mr. Elephant, but a small one would do for me."

"Don't say another word," cried the elephant as he waved his trunk in the
air. "I'm going right off and get us some ice cream cones. I know where
there's a store. You hop along slowly and I'll catch up to you."

So the elephant went off to the ice cream cone store, and Uncle Wiggily,
with his valise and the barber pole crutch, hopped on through the woods,
looking about to see if his fortune was up in any of the trees, but it
wasn't there yet.

Well, pretty soon, in a little while, not so very long, all of a sudden
the old gentleman rabbit heard a sniffing-sniffing noise in the woods. And
then there was a rustling in the bushes.

"Ha, hum!" exclaimed the rabbit. "Perhaps that may be a bear. I had better
look out for myself."

He started to hop softly away, so the bear, or whatever it was, wouldn't
hear him, but he was too late. In an instant out of the bushes popped
something big and black and shaggy, and the rabbit, taking one look at it,
saw that it was a big dog.

"New is the time for me to run!" cried Uncle Wiggily. "That dog will eat
me up, sure pop!"

Away hopped the old gentleman rabbit, his heart going "pitter-patter-pat,"
he was so frightened. On and on he ran down a path in the woods.

"Here, come back here! Come back!" cried the dog.

"Indeed, I will not," answered Uncle Wiggily. "I know what you want to do.
You want to eat me."

"No, I don't, honestly!" cried the dog. "But come back, for if you run any
farther on that road you'll fall into a lake and be drowned."

"Humph! I don't believe that!" cried the rabbit. "You are saying that to
scare me," and on he hopped faster than ever.

"Come back! Come back!" cried the dog again, but Uncle Wiggily wouldn't.
My! how fast he did