8. All of a sudden, just as Uncle Wiggily reached down and picked up his hat--all of a sudden, out rushed the Fox and Wolf from behind the stump. “Now we’ll get him!” howled the Wolf. “Let them have the snowballs, fellows!” cried the piggie boy. And they threw the hard chunks of snow and ice in the faces of the Fox and Wolf. “Oh wow! What is this?” barked the Fox as he felt a snowball hit him on his ear. [Illustration] 9. “Give it to them, boys! Give it to them!” cried Uncle Wiggily. The bunny rabbit put his hat down over his ears so it wouldn’t fall off and then he, too, joined in the snowball fight. “I thought you said we could easily get Uncle Wiggily!” howled the Wolf to the Fox. “Well, I thought we could!” cried the Fox. “Oh, wow, but what a mistake we made. Never again will I throw at Uncle Wiggily’s hat!” And if the hammer doesn’t try to play croquet with a snowball and catch cold in its head, the next pictures and story will tell how [Illustration] UNCLE WIGGILY TOOK THE SCARECROW, JUST TO PLAY A LITTLE TRICK. THE BAD OLD WOLF WAS BLOWN UP, LIKE A LONG SKYROCKET STICK. HA! HA! [Illustration] 1. One day, when Uncle Wiggily was hopping around, looking for an adventure, he reached a cornfield where, all summer, had stood an old Scarecrow. “Hum!” said the bunny to himself, as he saw the old stuffed, ragged man. “The farmer has no further use for this Scarecrow. His corn is cut and the crows have flown south. I’ll take the Scarecrow home and play a little trick on Nurse Jane with it. Ha! Ha!” [Illustration] 2. Uncle Wiggily laughed to himself as he thought of the trick he would play on Nurse Jane with the Scarecrow. “I guess I’ll put it away and save it for Hallowe’en and play the trick then,” said the bunny to himself. He became tired of hauling the stuffed and ragged man, and stood the Scarecrow up near a log, while he sat down on the other side of the log. Then the Fuzzy Fox saw the Scarecrow and wanted it. [Illustration] 3. All of a sudden, as Uncle Wiggily was thinking of hopping on again, up ran the Fox. “Ho! Ho!” barked the Fox, as he saw the Scarecrow, “these old clothes are just what I want for the winter!” Then the Fox started to run away with Uncle Wiggily’s Scarecrow that the bunny wanted for Hallowe’en. “Here! Come back!” cried the bunny, jumping up on the log. But the Old Fox only ran the faster. [Illustration] 4. “Well, if the Fox took one Scarecrow away from me I must find another,” said Uncle Wiggily, with a twinkle of his pink nose. He hopped along a little farther, and in a fence corner he saw a second ragged and stuffed man. “He has a tall silk hat on--like I wear!” said the bunny. “Some might take him for me. And what’s this--powder and matches! A hunter must have left them here. Now for a trick!” [Illustration]