lace where the hollow-stump
bungalow had been, but it was not there now. Mother Goose flew down
with her gander after Uncle Wiggily. They saw a pile of blackened
and smoking wood, and near it stood Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the
muskrat lady, and many other animals who lived in Woodland with
Uncle Wiggily.

"Oh, I am so sorry!" cried Nurse Jane. "It is my fault. I was baking
a pudding in the oven, Uncle Wiggily. I left it a minute while I ran
over to the pen of Mrs. Wibblewobble, the duck lady, to ask her
about making a new kind of carrot sauce for the pudding, and when I
came home the pudding had burned, and the bungalow was on fire."

"Never mind," spoke Uncle Wiggily, kindly, "as long as you were not
burned yourself, Nurse Jane."

"But where will you sleep to-night?" asked the muskrat lady,
sorrowfully.

"Oh," began Uncle Wiggily, "I guess I can----"

"Come stay with us!" cried Sammie and Susie Littletail, the rabbit
children.

"Or with us!" invited Johnnie and Billie Bushytail, the squirrels.

"And why not with us?" asked Nannie and Billie Wagtail, the goat
children.

"We'd ask you to come with us," said Jollie and Jillie Longtail, the
mouse children, "only our house is so small."

Many of Uncle Wiggily's friends, who had hurried up to see the
hollow-stump bungalow burn, while he was at the store, now, in turn,
invited him to stay with them.

"I, myself, have asked him to come with me," said Mother Goose, "or
with any of my friends. We all would be glad to have him."

"It is very kind of you," said the rabbit gentleman. "And this is
what I will do, until I can build me a new bungalow. I will take
turns staying at your different hollow-tree homes, your nests or
your burrows underground. And I will come and visit you also, Mother
Goose, and all of your friends; at least such of them as have room
for me.

"Yes, that is what I'll do. I'll visit around now that my
hollow-stump home is burned. I thank you all. Come, Nurse Jane, we
will pay our first visit to Sammie and Susie Littletail, the
rabbits."

And while the other animals hopped, skipped or flew away through the
woods, and as Mother Goose sailed off on the back of her gander, to
sweep more cobwebs out of the sky, Uncle Wiggily and Nurse Jane went
to the Littletail burrow, or underground house.

"Good-bye, Uncle Wiggily!" called Mother Goose. "I'll see you again,
soon, sometime. And if ever you meet with any of my friends, Little
Jack Horner, Bo Pe