called to the rabbit.

"I will," said Uncle Wiggily. Then the man tied a rope around the
elephant's trunk and led him away, and the big fellow waved and flapped
his ears at the rabbit to say good-by.

"Now I must travel all alone once more," said Uncle Wiggily to himself, as
he hopped on through the woods. "And I do hope I find part of my fortune
to-day, even if it's only ten cents' worth."

Well, he was passing across a nice green field a little while after that
when, all of a sudden, he heard some voices talking. He looked all around,
but he couldn't see any one, and he wondered if perhaps there were fairies
about. Then he heard a voice say:

"Now, children, hop just as I do. Take a long breath and then hop, and be
very careful where you go."

Then Uncle Wiggily looked down in the grass, and he saw a mamma hoptoad
and a whole lot of her little toads hopping along. The mamma toad was
giving the little ones their morning lesson. And I just wish you could
have seen how nicely those tiny toads could hop. One little chap, named
Sylvester, hopped over a big stone, and his little sister, named
Clarabella, leaped over a stick with a nail in it and didn't get hurt a
bit.

"Ha! That is very good hopping! Very fine, indeed!" cried Uncle Wiggily,
waving his ears back and forth. "I could hardly do better myself."

"Oh, it's very kind of you to say so," said the mamma toad. "Now,
children, give a big hop for Uncle Wiggily."

Well, they all took long breaths, and they were just going to hop when the
old gentleman rabbit suddenly called:

"Look out! Hold on! Don't jump!"

They all stopped quickly, and the mamma toad wanted to know what was the
matter.

"Why, there is a big cow walking along," said the rabbit, for he could see
over the top of the grass better than could the toads, and could watch the
big cow coming. "If that cow stepped on you, why, you would never hop
again," said the rabbit, and then he led the toads out of danger.

"Oh, I'm ever so much obliged to you," said the mamma toad to the rabbit.
"You saved our lives."

Then she had all the little toads thank the old gentleman rabbit, and the
mamma toad asked him to come to her house for dinner. Uncle Wiggily went,
but the toad's house was so small that he couldn't get in, until he had
made it bigger by scratching away some of the dirt around the front door.

Then he had a very good dinner, and he stayed all night at the toad
family's house and watched the