Uncle Wiggily Goes Swimming | Summer Stories

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"Uncle Wiggily Goes Swimming" finds the rabbit gentleman, inspired by two young frogs, deciding to take a swim. His dive goes awry, and he gets stuck in the mud, requiring the frogs to rescue him. While relaxing on a raft, Fuzzy Fox attempts to capture Uncle Wiggily to nibble on his ears, but the quick-thinking frogs use the diving board as a catapult to launch a rock, hitting the Fox and saving Uncle Wiggily from a nibbling fate.



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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Uncle Wiggily goes swimming. One day, as Uncle Wiggily was
hopping through the forest, he looked at a pond and
saw Bully and Bolly no tail the young frogs jumping
from the end of the diving board. Ah, that reminds
me of when I was young, thought the rabbit, gentleman.
Since sister Jane isn't here, I'll jump in and go

(00:24):
for a swim too. In the pond, Bully and Bolly
splashed around to their hearts content while the rabbit took
off his coat. Oh hooray, here comes Uncle Wiggily, quacked Bully,
come on in the water's lovely, mumbled Bolly. Thank you.
I'll give it a try, although I'm not a very

(00:46):
good swimmer or diver, Mister Longears replied. He stood swaying
at the end of the diving board. One, two, three, counted, Bully,
jump in. Uncle Wiggily sniffed with his pink nose in
the air one more time, and, hoping he wouldn't get
too much water, he jumped in. Uncle Wiggily didn't think

(01:10):
he would jump so high and dive so deep, but
he did, and then his head got stuck in the mud.
At the bottom of the pond. Oh Bu bu, book,
cried the poor rabbit, gentleman quick, we have to get
him out, grab his other leg, quawked Bully. The two
young frog boys at the end of the diving board

(01:32):
pulled as hard as they could. If we can get
him out, we'll put him on the raft. Quawked Bully.
I think you'd better not try to swim or dive anymore,
the frog boy said to Uncle Wiggily, after they pulled
him out of the mud where he had gotten stuck
upside down. I think you're right, agreed the rabbit, gentleman.

(01:56):
So Bully and Bali made a raft and Uncle Wiggily
rested comfortably on it while the frog boys pulled it
around the pond. But then Fuzzy Fox quietly crept to
the edge of the pond. Well, boys, I think you've
let me float around long enough, Uncle Wiggily said. After

(02:17):
a while, push the raft to the shore and I'll
get dressed again. So the raft was pushed to the shore.
The frog boys made jumps again from the diving board,
and Fuzzy Fox went to the water's edge to wait
for the rabbit to come ashore. Hmm, how delicious it
will be to nibble on his ears, thought the fox,

(02:39):
smacking his lips. Oh my dear heavens help, what's this?
Cried Uncle Wiggily, when the fox suddenly pulled him off
the raft as soon as he reached the shore. Eres
are the answer, Uncle Wiggily growled the fox. I'm going
to take you to my den in the woods and

(03:00):
nibble on your ears. Not waiting for the rabbit to
dress himself, the fox led the way, but Bully and
Bali came up with a trick. We'll sling this big
rock at the fox, they said. On the shore, the
fox tied a grapevine around poor Uncle Wiggily's neck and

(03:21):
dragged the little rabbit through the woods. Now it will
be easy to hit the fox with the rock and
not hit Uncle Wiggily, quagged Bully, as he and his
brothers pulled down the diving board, which would sling the
rock through the air like a cannon. Oh, how delicious
some ears will taste, later, sighed the fox. Is everything ready,

(03:46):
asked Bully, as he and his brother pulled down the
diving board as far as possible. Everything is ready, quawged Bali.
Let it go shouted bully, and they let go of
the diving board. The big sailed up and down straight
towards the bad fox, who was almost at his den
with Uncle Wiggily. Please please let me go back, the

(04:10):
poor little rabbit. No way, snarled the fox, And then
suddenly a big rock hit the fox's rib cage. Oh,
growled the fox. What's happening? But that was all he
could ask, because he fell down and the rock fell
on top of him, and he couldn't get up to

(04:32):
nibble on uncle's Wiggily's ears. You were very clever frog
boys to come up with that trick, laughed the little rabbit,
as the three friends jumped away and the fox cried
raw