Uncle Wiggily's Automobile (TM) by *HOWARD R. GARIS
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Over the fields
and through the woods he went,
and pretty soon he came to a place where
lived a sorrowful crow gentleman.
The crow is a black bird,
and it pulls up corn and goes
"Caw! Caw! Caw!"
Nobody knows why, though.
And this crow
was very sorrowful.
He was always
thinking something unpleasant
was going to happen,
such as
that he was going to drop
his ice cream cone in the the mud,
or
that somebody would
put whitewash on him.
Oh, he was very sorrowful,
was this crow,
and his name was Mr. Caw-caw.
When Uncle Wiggily
got to where the crow was sitting
in a tree the black creature cried:
"Oh, dear!
O woe is me!
O unhappiness!"
" Why, what is the matter?"
asked Uncle Wiggily, curious-like!
" Oh,
something is going to happen!"
cried the crow.
"I know it will rain
or snow or freeze,
or
maybe my feathers will all blow off."
" Don't be silly!"
said Uncle Wiggily.
"You just come
for an auto ride with me,
and you'll feel better.
Come along,
bless your black tail!"
So Mr. Caw-caw
got into the auto,
and
once more Uncle Wiggily started off.
He had not gone
very far before,
all of a sudden,
there was a bangity-bang noise,
and the auto stopped so quickly
that Uncle Wiggily and the crow
were almost thrown out of their seats.
" There!"
cried the black crow.
"I knew something would happen!"
and he cried
"Caw! Caw! Caw!"
" It is nothing at all,"
said the rabbit gentleman
as he got out to look.
"Only the whizzicumwhazzicum has become
twisted around
the jump-over-the-clothes basket,
and we can't go until it's fixed."
" Cant go?" asked the crow.
" Can't go-no,"
said Uncle Wiggily.
And
he didn't know what to do.
But just then
along came Old Dog Percival,
who used to work in a circus.
" I'll pull you along,"
he said.
"You sit in the auto and steer,
and I'll pull you."
And he did,
by a rope fast to the car.
The crow said it was funny
to have a circus dog pulling an auto,
but
Uncle Wiggily did not mind,
and soon
they were at a place
where the auto could be fixed.
So Uncle Wiggily
and the crow waited there,
while the machine was being mended.
" And we will see
what happens to us tomorrow,"
said Uncle Wiggily,
"for I am going to travel on."
And he did.
And in case the jumping rope
doesn't skip over the clock,
and,
and make the hands tickle the face
I"ll tell you next about
Uncle Wiggily and the school teacher.
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*The prior excerpt
was taken from a book entitled
Uncle Wiggily's Automobile,
written by
Howard R. Garis
and
copyright MCMXIII, MCMXIV,
and MCMXXXIX
by
The Platt & Munk Co. Inc.
Permission was granted to
the web site owner
for
the copying of this story
by
the author's family and heirs
on August 26, 1999.
I would like to thank
the author's family
and
heirs for allowing me the priviledge
to bring
to you
a taste of the life
and
travels of Uncle Wiggily's Automobile.
It has been
my favourite story book of all times.
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