Uncle Wiggilys Adventures | Page 8

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Fido Flip-Flop, as I told you in the other story, the rabbit and the
poodle doggie didn't know what in the world to do.
"Run this way!" called Fido, starting off to the left.
"No, hop this way!" said Uncle Wiggily, hopping to the right.
"Stand right where you are!" ordered the two foxes together. And with
that one made a grab for Uncle Wiggily. But what did that brave rabbit
gentleman do but stick his red-white-and-blue crutch out in front of
him, and the fox bit on that instead of on Uncle Wiggily. Right into the
crutch the fox's teeth sank, and for a moment Uncle Wiggily was safe.
But not for long.
"Ah, you fooled me that time, but now I'll get you!" cried the fox, and,
letting go of the crutch, he made another grab for the rabbit.
But at that instant Fido Flip-Flop, who had been jumping about,
keeping out of the way of the fox that was after him, cried out quite
loudly:
"Look here, everybody but Uncle Wiggily, and, as for you, shut both
your eyes tight."
Now the old gentleman rabbit couldn't imagine why he was to shut his
eyes tight, but he did so, and then what do you s'pose Fido Flip-Flop

did? Why, he began turning somersaults so fast that he looked just like
a pinwheel going around, or an automobile tire whizzing along. Faster
and faster did Fido Flip-Flop turn around, and then, all of a sudden, he
began chasing his tail, making motions just like a merry-go-round in a
circus, until those two foxes were fairly dizzy from watching him.
"Stop! Stop!" cried one fox.
"Yes do stop! We're so dizzy that we can't stand up!" cried the other
fox, staggering about. "Stop!"
"No, I'll not!" answered Fido Flip-Flop, and he went around faster that
ever, faster and faster and faster, until those two bad foxes got so
dizzy-izzy that they fell right over on their backs, with their legs
sticking straight up in the air like clothes posts, and their tails were
wiggling back and forth in the dirt, like dusting brushes. Oh, but they
were the dizzy foxes, though.
"Now's your chance! Run! Run! Uncle Wiggily! Run!" called Fido
Flip-Flop "Open your eyes and run!"
So the old gentleman rabbit opened his eyes, took up his valise which
he had dropped, and, hopping on his crutch, he and the poodle doggie
ran on through the woods, leaving the two surprised and disappointed
foxes still lying on their backs, wiggling their tails in the dust, and too
dizzy, from having watched Fido Flip-Flop do somersaults, and chase
his tail, to be able to get up.
"Why did you want me to shut my eyes?" asked Uncle Wiggily, when
they were so far away from the foxes that there was no more danger.
"That was so you wouldn't get dizzy from watching me do the
flip-flops," answered the doggie. "My, but that was a narrow escape,
though. Have you had many adventures like that since you started out
to seek your fortune?"
"Yes, several," answered the rabbit. "But turning flip-flops is a very
good thing to know how to do. I wonder if you could teach me, so that
when any more foxes or alligators chase me I can make them dizzy by
turning around? Can you teach me?"
"I'm sure I can," said Fido. "Here, this is the way to begin," and he did
some flip-flops slow and easy-like. Then Uncle Wiggily tried them, and,
though he couldn't do them very well at first, he practised until he was
quite good at it. Then Fido showed him how to stand on one ear, and
wiggle the other, and how to blink his eyes while standing on the end

of his little tail, and then Uncle Wiggily thought of a new trick, all by
himself.
"I'll stick my crutch in the ground, like a clothes pole," he said to Fido,
"and then I'll hop up on it and sing a song," which he did, singing a
song that went like this:
"Did you ever see a rabbit Do a flipper-flopper-flap? If not just kindly
watch me, As I wear my baseball cap.
"It's very strange, some folks may say, And also rather funny, To see a
kinky poodle dog Play with a flip-flop bunny.
"But we are on our travels, Adventures for to seek, We may find one,
or two, or three, 'Most any day next week."
And then Uncle Wiggily hopped down, and waved both ears backward
and forward, and made a low bow to a make-believe crowd of people,
only, of course, there were none there.
"Fine! Fine!" cried Fido Flip-Flop. "That's better than I did when I was
in the circus. Now I'll tell you what let's