July 28, 2025 • 21 mins
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It’s time for more of the new Uncle Wiggily series – Uncle Wiggily’s Travels. Where in the rabbit world is he off to this time, and who will he meet? What new friends will he make? Have a listen and see how it happens. So, cuddle up to your little ones, settle in, and enjoy.
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Visit us on BlueSky at - @sleepstories4kids.bsky.social
f you’d like to help support our work, & buy us a yummy coffee or a cuppa, please pop over to ko-fi.com/sleepstoriesandfairytales4kids, we’ve got some thoughtful rewards for our supporters. You'll also find a lot of cute things, videos and artwork. We also have a membership club, where the members will receive a shoutout, and have access to videos recorded exclusively for the members. Visit us at, ko-fi.com/sleepstoriesandfairytales4kids!
Want to hear more stories? Our Subscribers Club offers a selection of special stories recorded only for the members. You can tell which those are because you’ll see a nice orange label with a crown next to those episode titles. Our Supporters Club via Spreaker: spreaker.com/podcast/classic-children-s-story-podcast--4219679/support
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. And, you’ll also find stories, riddle quizzes, elearning videos, songs and more. They’re all lovingly and enthusiastically read on-camera for kids – https://www.youtube.com/@SleepStoriesandFairyTales4U
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, this is Stefanya. Welcome to the classic children's story podcast,
Stories for Bedtime, Playtime, anytime to keep your little ones
entertained and happy. We bring an international collection of stories,
Stories that teach, Stories that entertain, and more. Today we're
(00:23):
back with Uncle Wiggily. This one is called Uncle Wiggily
and the july Bug. If you remember from the last episode,
Uncle Wiggily and the White pussy Cat have been traveling
together because the pussy cat rarely helped Uncle Wiggily out,
(00:44):
didn't she? She saved them. Now they're traveling together for
a bit Uncle Wiggily and the july Bug. Well, what
(01:08):
shall we do today? Asked the White pussy Cat of
Uncle Wiggily, As I traveled on together the next day
after the adventure at the snake hole, they have slept
that night in a nice hollow stump. Hmm. I hardly
know what to do, replied the old gentleman rabbit. Of course,
(01:30):
I must be on the watch for my fortune, but
I don't seem to be finding it very fast. What
do you say to having a picnic today? The very thing,
cried the pussy cat. We will get some lunch and
go off in the woods. And eat it. Only we
ought to have a lot more people. Two are hurley
(01:52):
enough for a picnic. I would like some of my
friends to come to it, spoke Uncle Wiggily. But I'm
afraid they are too far off. Can't you send them
word by telephone, inquired the pussy cat. I'm sure I
would like to meet them, for I have heard so
(02:13):
much about Sammy and Susie Littletail and Johnny and Billy Bushytail.
There's no telephone in these woods, replied Uncle Wiggily, and
we haven't time to send them. Both guards. I wish
I could get word to them, however, they don't suppose
I can. Yes, you can, suddenly, cried a voice down
(02:37):
in the grass. I'll tell all your friends to come
to the picnic if you like. Indeed, I would like it,
said the rabbit. But who are you? If I may
be so bold as to ask, I can't see you
there he is. It's a big june bug, exclaimed the
(02:59):
pussy cat. I beg your pardon, spoke the bug quickly,
as he crawled off from under a leaf and sat
on a toadstool. But I am not a june bug.
If you please, you look like one. Said Uncle Wiggily politely.
I am a july bug, went on the funny little creature.
(03:22):
I was intended for a june bug, but there was
some mistake made and I didn't come out of my
shell until July. So, you see, I'm a july bug,
and at first I thought it would be jolly fun
to hear all the firecrackers and skyrockets go off. Isn't
as much fun as you would imagine, said Uncle Wiggily
(03:44):
as he thought of the time he went sailing into
the air on the skycracker. But don't you like being
a july bug? Not very much. You see, I'm the
only one there is, and all the others are june bugs.
(04:05):
The june bugs won't speak to me or let me
play with them, so I'm very lonesome. I heard you
talking about a picnic you were going to have, and
so I offered to call all your friends to it.
I thought perhaps if I did that, you would let
me come to it also. To be sure, exclaimed Uncle Wiggily,
(04:30):
you may gladly come, but how are you going to
send word to all of my friends. I will fly
through the air and tell them to come, was the answer.
I am a very swift flyer. Watch me, and then
and there the july bug buzzes around so fast that
(04:50):
Uncle Wiggily and the pussy cat couldn't see his wings
go flip flop flap. Well, they decided it would be
a good plan to have a july bug as a postman.
So Uncle Wiggily wrote out the invitations on little pieces
of white birch work and gave him to the buck off.
(05:12):
He flew into the air, waving one leg at Uncle
Wiggily and the pussycat. Well, now we must get ready
for the picnic. Get the things to eat for that
book flies so fast that soon all of my friends
will be here, said the rabbit. So he and the
pussy cat began to get the lunch ready. Uncle Wiggily
(05:34):
had some food in his case, but they got work
at things from a kind old monkey who lived in
the woods. He used to work on a hand organ,
but when he got old he bought him a nest
in the woods with the pennies he had saved up,
and he lived in peace and quietness and played a
mouth organ on sundays. Well, you will hardly believe me,
(05:59):
but it's true who no sooner had Uncle Wiggily and
the pussy cat put up the lunch, wrapping some for
each visitor in nice green grape leaves. Than the first
ones of the picnic party began to arrive. They were
Dickie and Nellie, Chip Chip the sparrows. But they could
(06:20):
fly through the air very quickly, and so they came
on ahead. We got your invitation that the July buck
left us, Uncle Wiggily, and we came at once, said Dickie,
Where are the others, asked the old gentleman Rabbit. They
are coming, answered Nellie, as she tied her tail ribbon
(06:42):
over again, for the boatnot had become undone. As she
was flying through the air well. In a little while
along came Hopping Sammy and Susy Little Tail, the rabbit children,
and Billy and Johnny Bushytail, the squirrel brothers and Bully
and Bully, the frogs and Dotty and much he trod
(07:03):
the ponies, and Lulu and Alice and Jimmy Wibbobum, the
duck twins and Buddy and White Eyes pegan, Oh, oh
the boy and girl animals I have ever told you about,
And oh, how glad they were to see Uncle Wiggily.
(07:25):
He had to tell them all about his travels after
his fortune before they would go off into the woods
to the picnic. But at last they went, each one
with a little leaf package of lunch. The july Bug
came along too, and he had a very little package
of good things because he was so small, you see.
But it was enough. They all sat on the ground
(07:49):
with flat stones for plates and sticks for knives and forks,
and they ate their picnic lunch there. Oh, they had
the finest time, and it didn't matter if some ants
did get in the sugar. Uncle Wiggily said they could
have all they wanted of the sweet stuff. And when
(08:10):
the picnic was almost over, there was a sudden noise
in the bushes, and two bad foxes sprang out. One
tried to grab Uncle Wiggily, and the other made of
dash sho Lulu whobblewobble. Oh dear, cried Doddy Trot, without
looking to see if her hair ribbon was on straight.
We shall all be eaten up. No you won't, cried
(08:34):
the brave july Bug. I'll fix those foxes. So that
brave july Bug just buzzed his wings as hard as
he could and straight at the foxes. He flew, bumping
and banging them on their noses and in the eyes,
so that they gave two separate and distinct owls and
(08:56):
ran away, taking their big tails with them. So that
is how the July Bulk saved everybody from being eaten up.
And then the picnic was over and everyone said it
was lovely. Well, I'll startle more troubles again tomorrow, said
(09:18):
Uncle Wiggily as his friends told him goodbye. So now
that was the end of our story. But in this
episode we're having a bonus extra story. This one is
(09:47):
Uncle Wiggily and the Jack in the Pulpit. Uncle Wiggily
was slowly hopping along through the woods, sometimes leaning on
his crutch when his rheumatism pained him, and again skipping
along when he got out into the warm sunshine. It
(10:07):
was the day after the picnic, and the old gentleman
rabbit felt a bit blountsome as all his friends had
gone back to their homes. I do declare, exclaimed Uncle Wiggily,
as he walked slowly along by a little lake where
an august rabbit was running his motor boat. If I
don't find my fortune pretty soon, I won't have any
(10:30):
vacation this year. I must look carefully today and see
if I can't find a pout of gold. Well, he
looked as carefully as he could, but my landsakes in
a pair of white gloves. He couldn't seem to find
a smitch of gold, and not so much as a
(10:54):
crumb of diamonds. Hmm, exclaimed uncle. At this rate, I
guess I'll have to keep on traveling for several years
before I find my fortune. Oh, but never mind, I'm
having a good time anyhow, I'll keep on searching. So
he kept on, and all of a sudden, when he
(11:17):
was walking past a prickly brier bush, he heard a
voice calling, Hey, Uncle Wiggily, come on in here. Huh,
who are you and why do you want me to
come in there? Said the old gentleman rabbit. Oh, I
(11:39):
am a friend of yours. What's the answer? And I
will give you a lot of money if you come
in here. Let me see your face, answered the rabbit.
I want to know who you are. Oh, I have
a treatful headache, said the teacher hiding in the bushes.
(12:03):
I don't want to stick my face out in the cold.
But if you will take my word for it. I
am a good friend of yours. I would like very
much for you to come in here. Well, perhaps I
had better, said the old gentleman rabbit, for I certainly
(12:28):
need money. And he was just going to crawl in
under the pickly briar bush, when all of a sudden
he happened to look, and he saw the skillery scallery
tail of the alligator accidentally sticking out. Yes, it was
the alligator tried to fool dear old Uncle Wiggily. Ooh,
(12:52):
cried the wise old rabbit. I guess I won't go
in there, afra all. So he hopped to one side,
and the alligator kept waiting for him to come in
so he could eat him. But when the rabbit didn't
come in, the savage creature with the skillery scallery tail cried, well,
aren't you coming in? No, thank you, said the rabbit.
(13:17):
I have to go on and seek my fortune, and
away he hopped. Well, they alligated was so angry that
he nurshed his teeth and nearly broke them, and he
crawled out after Uncle Wiggily, but of course he couldn't
catch him. Uncle Wiggily was pretty careful after that, and
(13:40):
whenever he came near a prickly briar bush, he listened
with both his long ears stuck up straight to see
if he could hear any sounds like an alligator. But
he didn't, so he kept on well. It was coming
on toward evening one afternoon, and the old gentleman rabbit
(14:04):
was tramping along the road wondering where he was sleep
when all of a sudden, something came bursting out of
the bushes towards the rabbit, and a voice quite out
hid Hide, Uncle Wiggily, Hide as quickly as you can.
Why should I hide, asked the old gentleman rabbit. Is
(14:24):
there a giant coming after me? Worse there a giant,
said the voice. It is a bad wolf that jumped
out of his cage from the circus, and he is
just ready to eat up anything he sees. And the
July Book, for it was he who had fluttered out
of the bushes to tell Uncle Wiggily made his wings
(14:44):
go slowly to and fro like an electric palm leaf
fan a wolf, eh, cried the old gentleman rabbit. And
do you think he will eat me? He surely will,
said the July Book. To fly past his house, and
I heard him say to his wife that he was
going out to see if he could find a rabbit supper.
(15:08):
So I know he's coming for you. You'd better hide.
Oh where can I hide? Asked the rabbit as he
looked around for a hollow stump, But there wasn't any,
and there were no holes in the ground, and he
didn't know what to do. Then all at once there
was a crashing in the bushes, and it sounded like
(15:28):
an elephant coming through, breaking all the sticks in his path.
There's the wolf. There's the wolf, cried the july bug. Hide,
uncle Wiggily, and then the bug perched on the high
limb of a tree where the wolf couldn't catch him. Well,
the poor old gentleman rabbit looked for a place to
(15:49):
hide himself away from the wolf, but it couldn't seem
to find any, and he was just going to crawl
under a stone and maybe hurt himself, when all of
a sudden he heard a voice say, jump up here,
uncle Wiggily, I'll hide you from the wolf. So the
(16:10):
rabbit traveler looked up, and there he saw a flower
called Jack in the pulpit looking down on him. I've
told you about them before, how the frog once took
his bath in one, and how when you pick a
wood bouquet you put them in with some ferns to
make the bouquet look pretty. They are a flower like
of us, with a curling top, and a thing standing
(16:35):
up in the center, whose name is Jack. Jump in here,
said the jack. I'll fold my top down over you
like an umbrella, and the wolf can't find you. But
you are so small that I can't get inside, said
the rabbit. Oh, make myself bigger, cried the Jack, and
he took a long breath and puffed himself up and
(16:58):
swelled himself up until he was large enough for Uncle
Wiggily to jump down inside. Then the Jack in the
pulpit closed down the umbrella top over the rabbit, and
he was hidden away as nice and snuck as could
(17:19):
be wished. Pretty soon that savage bad wolf came prancing along,
and he looked all over for the rabbit. Then he
sniffed and cried, oh, I smell him somewhere around here.
(17:39):
I'll find him. But he couldn't see Uncle Wiggily because
he was safely hidden in the Jack in the bulpit.
So the wolf raised around some more and chased after
his tail, and just as he smelled the rabbit hidden
in the flower, the july bug flew down out of
the tree and right into the eyes of the wolf.
(18:02):
And then the savage creature felt so badly that he
ran home and ate cold bread and water for supper,
and he didn't bother Uncle Wiggily anymore that day. So
that's how the jack and the pulpit saved the rabbit,
and very thankful Uncle Wiggily was, And he stayed that
(18:25):
night in a hollow stump, and the next day he
went on to seek his fortune. And what a curious
thing happened to him, which I'll tell you about next time.
The next story will be about Uncle Wiggily and the
lost chipmunk. And that's the end of today's story time.
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Hi, this is Stefanya. Welcome to the classic children's story podcast,
Stories for Bedtime, Playtime, anytime to keep your little ones
entertained and happy. We bring an international collection of stories,
Stories that teach, Stories that entertain, and more. Today we're
(00:23):
back with Uncle Wiggily. This one is called Uncle Wiggily
and the july Bug. If you remember from the last episode,
Uncle Wiggily and the White pussy Cat have been traveling
together because the pussy cat rarely helped Uncle Wiggily out,
(00:44):
didn't she? She saved them. Now they're traveling together for
a bit Uncle Wiggily and the july Bug. Well, what
(01:08):
shall we do today? Asked the White pussy Cat of
Uncle Wiggily, As I traveled on together the next day
after the adventure at the snake hole, they have slept
that night in a nice hollow stump. Hmm. I hardly
know what to do, replied the old gentleman rabbit. Of course,
(01:30):
I must be on the watch for my fortune, but
I don't seem to be finding it very fast. What
do you say to having a picnic today? The very thing,
cried the pussy cat. We will get some lunch and
go off in the woods. And eat it. Only we
ought to have a lot more people. Two are hurley
(01:52):
enough for a picnic. I would like some of my
friends to come to it, spoke Uncle Wiggily. But I'm
afraid they are too far off. Can't you send them
word by telephone, inquired the pussy cat. I'm sure I
would like to meet them, for I have heard so
(02:13):
much about Sammy and Susie Littletail and Johnny and Billy Bushytail.
There's no telephone in these woods, replied Uncle Wiggily, and
we haven't time to send them. Both guards. I wish
I could get word to them, however, they don't suppose
I can. Yes, you can, suddenly, cried a voice down
(02:37):
in the grass. I'll tell all your friends to come
to the picnic if you like. Indeed, I would like it,
said the rabbit. But who are you? If I may
be so bold as to ask, I can't see you
there he is. It's a big june bug, exclaimed the
(02:59):
pussy cat. I beg your pardon, spoke the bug quickly,
as he crawled off from under a leaf and sat
on a toadstool. But I am not a june bug.
If you please, you look like one. Said Uncle Wiggily politely.
I am a july bug, went on the funny little creature.
(03:22):
I was intended for a june bug, but there was
some mistake made and I didn't come out of my
shell until July. So, you see, I'm a july bug,
and at first I thought it would be jolly fun
to hear all the firecrackers and skyrockets go off. Isn't
as much fun as you would imagine, said Uncle Wiggily
(03:44):
as he thought of the time he went sailing into
the air on the skycracker. But don't you like being
a july bug? Not very much. You see, I'm the
only one there is, and all the others are june bugs.
(04:05):
The june bugs won't speak to me or let me
play with them, so I'm very lonesome. I heard you
talking about a picnic you were going to have, and
so I offered to call all your friends to it.
I thought perhaps if I did that, you would let
me come to it also. To be sure, exclaimed Uncle Wiggily,
(04:30):
you may gladly come, but how are you going to
send word to all of my friends. I will fly
through the air and tell them to come, was the answer.
I am a very swift flyer. Watch me, and then
and there the july bug buzzes around so fast that
(04:50):
Uncle Wiggily and the pussy cat couldn't see his wings
go flip flop flap. Well, they decided it would be
a good plan to have a july bug as a postman.
So Uncle Wiggily wrote out the invitations on little pieces
of white birch work and gave him to the buck off.
(05:12):
He flew into the air, waving one leg at Uncle
Wiggily and the pussycat. Well, now we must get ready
for the picnic. Get the things to eat for that
book flies so fast that soon all of my friends
will be here, said the rabbit. So he and the
pussy cat began to get the lunch ready. Uncle Wiggily
(05:34):
had some food in his case, but they got work
at things from a kind old monkey who lived in
the woods. He used to work on a hand organ,
but when he got old he bought him a nest
in the woods with the pennies he had saved up,
and he lived in peace and quietness and played a
mouth organ on sundays. Well, you will hardly believe me,
(05:59):
but it's true who no sooner had Uncle Wiggily and
the pussy cat put up the lunch, wrapping some for
each visitor in nice green grape leaves. Than the first
ones of the picnic party began to arrive. They were
Dickie and Nellie, Chip Chip the sparrows. But they could
(06:20):
fly through the air very quickly, and so they came
on ahead. We got your invitation that the July buck
left us, Uncle Wiggily, and we came at once, said Dickie,
Where are the others, asked the old gentleman Rabbit. They
are coming, answered Nellie, as she tied her tail ribbon
(06:42):
over again, for the boatnot had become undone. As she
was flying through the air well. In a little while
along came Hopping Sammy and Susy Little Tail, the rabbit children,
and Billy and Johnny Bushytail, the squirrel brothers and Bully
and Bully, the frogs and Dotty and much he trod
(07:03):
the ponies, and Lulu and Alice and Jimmy Wibbobum, the
duck twins and Buddy and White Eyes pegan, Oh, oh
the boy and girl animals I have ever told you about,
And oh, how glad they were to see Uncle Wiggily.
(07:25):
He had to tell them all about his travels after
his fortune before they would go off into the woods
to the picnic. But at last they went, each one
with a little leaf package of lunch. The july Bug
came along too, and he had a very little package
of good things because he was so small, you see.
But it was enough. They all sat on the ground
(07:49):
with flat stones for plates and sticks for knives and forks,
and they ate their picnic lunch there. Oh, they had
the finest time, and it didn't matter if some ants
did get in the sugar. Uncle Wiggily said they could
have all they wanted of the sweet stuff. And when
(08:10):
the picnic was almost over, there was a sudden noise
in the bushes, and two bad foxes sprang out. One
tried to grab Uncle Wiggily, and the other made of
dash sho Lulu whobblewobble. Oh dear, cried Doddy Trot, without
looking to see if her hair ribbon was on straight.
We shall all be eaten up. No you won't, cried
(08:34):
the brave july Bug. I'll fix those foxes. So that
brave july Bug just buzzed his wings as hard as
he could and straight at the foxes. He flew, bumping
and banging them on their noses and in the eyes,
so that they gave two separate and distinct owls and
(08:56):
ran away, taking their big tails with them. So that
is how the July Bulk saved everybody from being eaten up.
And then the picnic was over and everyone said it
was lovely. Well, I'll startle more troubles again tomorrow, said
(09:18):
Uncle Wiggily as his friends told him goodbye. So now
that was the end of our story. But in this
episode we're having a bonus extra story. This one is
(09:47):
Uncle Wiggily and the Jack in the Pulpit. Uncle Wiggily
was slowly hopping along through the woods, sometimes leaning on
his crutch when his rheumatism pained him, and again skipping
along when he got out into the warm sunshine. It
(10:07):
was the day after the picnic, and the old gentleman
rabbit felt a bit blountsome as all his friends had
gone back to their homes. I do declare, exclaimed Uncle Wiggily,
as he walked slowly along by a little lake where
an august rabbit was running his motor boat. If I
don't find my fortune pretty soon, I won't have any
(10:30):
vacation this year. I must look carefully today and see
if I can't find a pout of gold. Well, he
looked as carefully as he could, but my landsakes in
a pair of white gloves. He couldn't seem to find
a smitch of gold, and not so much as a
(10:54):
crumb of diamonds. Hmm, exclaimed uncle. At this rate, I
guess I'll have to keep on traveling for several years
before I find my fortune. Oh, but never mind, I'm
having a good time anyhow, I'll keep on searching. So
he kept on, and all of a sudden, when he
(11:17):
was walking past a prickly brier bush, he heard a
voice calling, Hey, Uncle Wiggily, come on in here. Huh,
who are you and why do you want me to
come in there? Said the old gentleman rabbit. Oh, I
(11:39):
am a friend of yours. What's the answer? And I
will give you a lot of money if you come
in here. Let me see your face, answered the rabbit.
I want to know who you are. Oh, I have
a treatful headache, said the teacher hiding in the bushes.
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I don't want to stick my face out in the cold.
But if you will take my word for it. I
am a good friend of yours. I would like very
much for you to come in here. Well, perhaps I
had better, said the old gentleman rabbit, for I certainly
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need money. And he was just going to crawl in
under the pickly briar bush, when all of a sudden
he happened to look, and he saw the skillery scallery
tail of the alligator accidentally sticking out. Yes, it was
the alligator tried to fool dear old Uncle Wiggily. Ooh,
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cried the wise old rabbit. I guess I won't go
in there, afra all. So he hopped to one side,
and the alligator kept waiting for him to come in
so he could eat him. But when the rabbit didn't
come in, the savage creature with the skillery scallery tail cried, well,
aren't you coming in? No, thank you, said the rabbit.
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I have to go on and seek my fortune, and
away he hopped. Well, they alligated was so angry that
he nurshed his teeth and nearly broke them, and he
crawled out after Uncle Wiggily, but of course he couldn't
catch him. Uncle Wiggily was pretty careful after that, and
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whenever he came near a prickly briar bush, he listened
with both his long ears stuck up straight to see
if he could hear any sounds like an alligator. But
he didn't, so he kept on well. It was coming
on toward evening one afternoon, and the old gentleman rabbit
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was tramping along the road wondering where he was sleep
when all of a sudden, something came bursting out of
the bushes towards the rabbit, and a voice quite out
hid Hide, Uncle Wiggily, Hide as quickly as you can.
Why should I hide, asked the old gentleman rabbit. Is
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there a giant coming after me? Worse there a giant,
said the voice. It is a bad wolf that jumped
out of his cage from the circus, and he is
just ready to eat up anything he sees. And the
July Book, for it was he who had fluttered out
of the bushes to tell Uncle Wiggily made his wings
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go slowly to and fro like an electric palm leaf
fan a wolf, eh, cried the old gentleman rabbit. And
do you think he will eat me? He surely will,
said the July Book. To fly past his house, and
I heard him say to his wife that he was
going out to see if he could find a rabbit supper.
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So I know he's coming for you. You'd better hide.
Oh where can I hide? Asked the rabbit as he
looked around for a hollow stump, But there wasn't any,
and there were no holes in the ground, and he
didn't know what to do. Then all at once there
was a crashing in the bushes, and it sounded like
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an elephant coming through, breaking all the sticks in his path.
There's the wolf. There's the wolf, cried the july bug. Hide,
uncle Wiggily, and then the bug perched on the high
limb of a tree where the wolf couldn't catch him. Well,
the poor old gentleman rabbit looked for a place to
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hide himself away from the wolf, but it couldn't seem
to find any, and he was just going to crawl
under a stone and maybe hurt himself, when all of
a sudden he heard a voice say, jump up here,
uncle Wiggily, I'll hide you from the wolf. So the
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rabbit traveler looked up, and there he saw a flower
called Jack in the pulpit looking down on him. I've
told you about them before, how the frog once took
his bath in one, and how when you pick a
wood bouquet you put them in with some ferns to
make the bouquet look pretty. They are a flower like
of us, with a curling top, and a thing standing
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up in the center, whose name is Jack. Jump in here,
said the jack. I'll fold my top down over you
like an umbrella, and the wolf can't find you. But
you are so small that I can't get inside, said
the rabbit. Oh, make myself bigger, cried the Jack, and
he took a long breath and puffed himself up and
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swelled himself up until he was large enough for Uncle
Wiggily to jump down inside. Then the Jack in the
pulpit closed down the umbrella top over the rabbit, and
he was hidden away as nice and snuck as could
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be wished. Pretty soon that savage bad wolf came prancing along,
and he looked all over for the rabbit. Then he
sniffed and cried, oh, I smell him somewhere around here.
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I'll find him. But he couldn't see Uncle Wiggily because
he was safely hidden in the Jack in the bulpit.
So the wolf raised around some more and chased after
his tail, and just as he smelled the rabbit hidden
in the flower, the july bug flew down out of
the tree and right into the eyes of the wolf.
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And then the savage creature felt so badly that he
ran home and ate cold bread and water for supper,
and he didn't bother Uncle Wiggily anymore that day. So
that's how the jack and the pulpit saved the rabbit,
and very thankful Uncle Wiggily was, And he stayed that
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night in a hollow stump, and the next day he
went on to seek his fortune. And what a curious
thing happened to him, which I'll tell you about next time.
The next story will be about Uncle Wiggily and the
lost chipmunk. And that's the end of today's story time.
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