sadly-like and
sorry.

"Oh, dear!" cried Susie. "Whatever shall I do? I can't go to a party
looking like this! I just must have a new dress."

Uncle Wiggily thought for a minute. Then, through the woods, he spied
a tree with white, shiny bark on, just like satin.

"Ha! I know what to do!" he cried. "That is a white birch tree.
Indians make boats of the bark, and from it I can also make a new dress
for you, Susie. Or, at least, a sort of dress, or apron, to go over
the dress you have on, and so cover the mud spots."

"Please do!" begged Susie.

"I will!" promised Uncle Wiggily, and he did.

He stripped off some bark from the birch tree and he sewed the pieces
together with ribbon grass, and some needles from the pine tree. And
when Susie put on the bark dress over her party one, not a mud spot
showed!

"Oh, that's fine, Uncle Wiggily!" she cried. "Now I can go to the
Wibblewobbles!"

And so she went, and the bad bear never came out to so much as growl,
nor did the fox, so the popgun was not needed. And all the girls at
the party thought Susie's dress that Uncle Wiggily had made was just
fine.

So if the rain drop doesn't fall out of bed, and stub its toe on the
rocking chair, which might make it so lame that it couldn't dance, I'll
tell you next about Uncle Wiggily and Tommie's kite.

STORY XX

UNCLE WIGGILY AND TOMMIE'S KITE

"Uncle Wiggily, have you anything special to do today?" asked Tommie
Kat, the little kitten boy, one morning as he knocked on the door of
the hollow stump bungalow, where Mr. Longears, the rabbit gentleman,
lived.

"Anything special to do? Why, no, I guess not," answered the bunny
uncle. "I just have to go walking to look for an adventure to happen
to me, and then--"

"Didn't you promise to go to the five and ten cent store for me, and
buy me a pair of diamond earrings?" asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the
muskrat lady housekeeper.

"Oh, so I did!" cried Uncle Wiggily. "I had forgotten about that. But
I'll go. What was it you wanted of me?" he asked Tommie Kat, who was
making a fishpole of his tail by standing it straight up in the air.

"Oh, I wanted you to come and help me build a kite, and then come with
me and fly it," said the kitten boy. "Could you do that, Uncle
Wiggily?"

"Well, perhaps I could," said the bunny uncle. "I will first go to the
store and get Nurse Jane's diamond earrings. Then, on the way back,
I'll stop and help you with your ki