Bedtime, Anytime Classic Stories for Children – Rabbit Stories- Uncle Wiggily-Book 3- Pt 1

Hello from the Classic Children’s Story podcast.

We bring you narrations of classic children's stories of all kinds to keep your young ones entertained, read by a professional voice actress. The themes range from animal stories to stories that teach, to classic favourites like Tom Thumb, Red Riding Hood and more.

Here are more adventures with Uncle Wiggily, the kindly gentleman rabbit, and his friends in a new book called Uncle Wiggily’s Automobile. Uncle Wiggily has been advised by his doctor to take rides in his automobile every day. So, he turns them into adventures. Where will Uncle Wiggily’s car take him today I wonder?

So cuddle up to your little ones, settle in, have a listen and enjoy.

Visit us on Instagram at “podcastsbystefania”.

If you’d like to help support our work, & buy us a yummy coffee or a cuppa, please pop over to https://www.ko-fi.com/happythoughts, we’ve got some thoughtful rewards for our supporters. You'll also find a lot of positive-thinking inspirational messages, videos and artwork.

Become a “Just For Kids” level member and you’ll receive the above-mentioned goodies, as well shout outs on the podcast, and access to an exclusive members- only story each month, and a personalised thank you piece of digital artwork. And…access to all of that goodness is only £2 per month.

Find out more at: https://ko-fi.com/happythoughts/tiers Visit us at, https://www.ko-fi.com/happythoughts !

AND … If you’d like to watch some stories read by us on video, why not visit our new YouTube Channel – “Sleep Stories and Classic Fairy Tales For Kids” - dedicated to making videos that entertain & empower kids with stories, affirmations, tapping (EFT) etc. They’re all lovingly and enthusiastically read on-camera for kids – https://www.youtube.com/@SleepStoriesandFairyTales4U

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/classic-children-s-story-podcast--4219679/support.

Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Hi, this is Stefania. Welcometo the classic children's story podcast, Stories
for Bedtime, Playtime, anytime tokeep your little ones entertained and happy.
We bring an international collection of stories, Stories that Teach, Stories that entertain,
and more. Now we're beginning anew book, Uncle Wiggily's Automobile,

(00:27):
Uncle Wiggily and the Sorrowful Crow.Once upon a time, a good many
years ago, there was an oldrabbit gentleman named Uncle Wiggily Longears. He
was related to Johnny and Billy Bushytailthe squirrels, as well as being an
uncle to Sammy and Susie Littletail,his rabbit nephew and niece, and Uncle

(00:52):
Wiggily lived near Jackie and Pete bowWow the puppy Dogs. While not far
away, was the home of theWibblewobble family of ducks. And across the
street almost around the corner by theold stump were the cat children and Neddie
and Becky Stopped Tail the Nice bearchildren. One day Uncle Wiggily was not

(01:19):
feeling very well, so he sentfor Doctor Possum, who soon came over.
Doctor Possum found Uncle Wiggily sitting inthe rocking chair on the front porch
of the hollow Stump house where helived. WHOA, what is the trouble,
Uncle Wiggily asked doctor Possum, ashe looked over the tops of his

(01:42):
glasses. I am sick, answeredthe rabbit. Gentleman. Sick, eh,
exclaimed doctor Possum. Let me see. Put out your tongue. Uncle
Wiggily did so. Oh, exclaimeddoctor Possum. Yes, I think you

(02:06):
are ill, and you will haveto do something for it right away.
What will I have to do,asked Uncle Wiggily, anxious like, and
his nose twinkled like a star ona frosty night. You will simply have
to go away, said doctor Possum. There is no help for it.

(02:29):
I don't see why, exclaimed UncleWiggily, and he bent one of his
long ears forward and the other backward, until it looked like he had the
letter V on top of his head. But of course he hadn't, for
that letter is in their reading book, or it was the last time I
looked. Yes, said doctor Possum, you must go away. I don't

(02:54):
see why, said Uncle Wiggily again. Couldn't I get well here at home?
No, you couldnt, replied doctorPossum. If you want me to
tell you the truth. Oh,always tell the truth, exclaimed doctor Wiggily
quickly. Always well, then,said doctor Possum as he looked in his

(03:21):
medicine case to see if he hadany strong peppermint for Aunt Jerusia and the
little nervous old lady Woodchuck. Well, then, to tell you the truth.
You were getting too that, andyou must take more exercise. Exercise,

(03:42):
exclaimed Uncle Wiggily. Why don't Iplay a game of Scotch checkers with
Grandfather Goosey Gander, the old gentlemanDuck, nearly every day, and we
always ate the sugar cookies we usefor checkers. That's just it, said
Doctor Possum as he rolled up asweet sugar pill for Sammy Littletail, the

(04:03):
mill rabbit. Boy. You eattoo much and you don't jump around enough.
What are you used to said UncleWiggily while he twinkled his pink nose
like a red star on a frostynight. Why don't you remember the time

(04:23):
I went off and had a lotof adventures, and how I traveled after
my fortune and found it. Thatis just the trouble, spoke Doctor Possum.
You've found your fortune, And sinceyou became rich, you do nothing.
I remember the taught when you usedto teach Sammy and to Susie Littletail

(04:46):
how to keep out of traps andhow to dig burrows and watch out for
savage dogs. Ah yes, sighedUncle Wiggily. Those were happy days,
and healthful days too, said DoctorPossum. You are much better off thin

(05:08):
and not so fat. And sodo you think I had better start traveling
again, asked Uncle Wiggily, takingoff his high hat and bowing politely to
Uncle Letty, the nice goat lady, who was passing by with her two

(05:30):
horns sticking through the holes of herSunday bonnet. Us, it would be
the best thing for you, spokedoctor Possum. Medicine is all right sometimes,
But fresh air and sunshine and beingout of doors and happy and contented

(05:51):
and helping people as Uncle Booster,the old grown hall gentlemen used to do.
All these are better than medicine.How is Uncle Buster, by the
way, inquired a rabbit gentleman.Fine. He helped a little girl mouse

(06:11):
to jump over a mud puddle theother day, and after she was on
the other side, she jumped backall by herself and fell in, said
Doctor Possum with a laugh. That'sthe kind of gentleman, Uncle Booster is,
exclaimed Uncle Wiggily. Oh that's good. But now do you think it

(06:36):
would do me any good to startoff and have some adventures in my automobile.
It would be better to walk,said doctor Possum. Remember you called
me in to tell you what wasthe matter with you because you felt ill?

(07:00):
And I tell you that you mustgo around more, take more exercise.
Still, if you had rather goin your auto than walk, I
have no objections. I had muchrather, said Uncle Wiggily. I liked

(07:21):
my otto, then, said doctorPossum, I will write that as a
prescription. So on a piece ofwhite birch bark he wrote one otto ride
every day, to be taken beforemeals Doctor Possum. I'll do it at

(07:48):
once, said the rabbit. GentlemanUncle Wiggily Longears was quite rich, you
know, having found his fortune ofa out a million yellow carrots, as
I have told you in the otherstory. So he could afford to have
an auto, a car, andit was the nicest car you could imagine.

(08:13):
It had a turnip for a steeringwheel and whenever Uncle Wiggily got hungry,
he could take a bite up theturnip. Sometimes, after a long
trip, the stirring row would beall eaten up, and old circus dog
Perceval, who mended broken autos,would have to put on a new wheel

(08:37):
and to make a noise so thatno one would get run over by his
car. Uncle Wiggily had a cow'shorn fastened on his auto, so instead
of going all all like a dog, it went whooo like a bossy cow

(08:58):
ward supper time. Well, ifI'm going off for my health, i'd
better start, said Uncle Wiggily ashe went out to his auto after doctor
Possum had gone. I'll take alooon ride. So he got into the

(09:20):
machine and pushed on the duldum andtwisted the tinker roam dagger hum, and
soon away he went as fast asanything, if not faster. 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 blackbird,

(09:46):
and it pulls up corn and goescaw caw caw. Nobody knows why,
though, and this crow was verysorrowful. He was always thinking something unpleasant
was going to happen, such asthat he was going to drop his ice

(10:07):
cream cone in the mud, orthat somebody would put whitewash on him.
Oh, he was very sorrowful,was this crow, and his name was
mister kaw Kaw. When Uncle Wiggilygot to where the crow was sitting in
a tree, the black creature cried, oh dear, oh woe is me,

(10:35):
oh unhappiness. Why what is thematter, asked Uncle Wiggily, curious
like, Oh, something is goingto happen, cried the crow. I
know it will rain, or sheno or freeze, or my feathers will

(11:01):
all blow off. Don't be silly, said Uncle Wiggily. You just come
for an auto ride with me andyou'll feel better. Come along, bless
your black tail. So mister Cachowgot into the auto and once more Uncle
Wiggily started off. He had notgone very far before all of a sudden

(11:24):
there was a bangety bang noise,and the auto stopped so quickly that Uncle
Wiggily and the crow were almost thrownout of their seats. There cried the
black crow. I knew something wouldhappen, and he cried, cool,
cool, cool, it is nothingat all, said the rabbit gentleman,

(11:46):
as he got out to look onlythe whizzicum. Whizzicum has become twisted around
the jump over the clothes basket,and we can't go into it was fixed.
Can't go, asked the crow.Can't go, no, said Uncle
Wiggily, and he didn't know whatto do. But then alone came old

(12:11):
dog Perceval, who used to workin a circus. I'll pull you alone,
he said. You sit in theauto and steer and I'll pull you.
And he did buy a rope tiedto the car. The crow said
it was funny to have a circusdog pulling an auto put Uncle Wiggily did
not mind. And soon they wereat a place where the auto could be

(12:35):
fixed. So Uncle Wiggily and thecrow waited there while the machine was being
mended. And we will see whathappens to us tomorrow, said Uncle Wiggily,
for I am going to travel on. And he did. And next

(13:01):
time I'll tell you about Uncle Wiggilyand the school teacher. And that's the
end of today's story. I'll beback again with the news story soon.
You can subscribe and listen to theClassic Children's Story podcast on most major platforms

(13:24):
and podcast apps. Visit our coffeepage Happy Thoughts on Koffee, where you
can find inspiration, motivation, videosand artwork and if you like membership in
the classic children's story podcasts, herewill also be uploading stories exclusively for the
podcast members. That's Happy Thoughts onKoffee and the URLs in the show notes.

(13:50):
You can buy us at Coffee onCoffee if you like, Yes please,
Every donation is loved and appreciated.Feel free to spread the word about
the podcast to your family, toyour friends, to everyone. Will always
have exciting news story episodes ready byfinale