Credits
Colorist(s):
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Letterer(s):
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Subject Matter
Genres:
anthropomorphic
Character(s):
Uncle Wiggily Longears (an elderly rheumatoid rabbit); Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy (his housekeeper, a muskrat); Susie Littletail (his niece, a rabbit kit); Sammie Littletail (his nephew, a rabbit kit); a Burglar Fox (a homicidal kidnapper); Mr Bug (a friend); Mrs Bug (a friend); Goosey Gander (a father goose); Toddler (Gander's child, a gosling); Waddle (Gander's child, a gosling); Mrs. Twisty-Tail Pig (a mother sow); Curly (her son, a piglet); Floppy (her other son, a piglet); Officer (a bulldog uniformed motorcycle police); bather (an elephant)
First Line:
Since Uncle Wiggily found his fortune, Susie and Sammie Littletail have turned the front yard into a playground.
Synopsis:
The Bugs alert Wiggily a Burglar Fox in lamb's clothes took Susie and Sammie. Off to the rescue! Picking up others in trouble, parents seeking their own missing children. Enlisting a cop. The Bugs get separated from the others at Fox's roadblock, and tail him home as the rest are astray. Fox departs. Bugs set a fire that draws the rest. The children are saved. The criminal fox returns, is taken in custody. The rest head home. The Bugs talk.
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Reprint Notes:
Miscellaneous
Pages:
10
Notes:
Writer credit per Du Bois Account Books.
"A fox in lamb's clothes," says Nurse Jane (p.4, pl.2), describing the kidnapper to the Officer. Du Bois, a lay preacher licensed by the Church of the Nazarene, takes the story's premise from the phrase "a wolf in sheep's clothing," based on the words of Jesus of Nazareth in the Gospel of Matthew 7:15. ▶ Fox is inspired to his deceit by the children's own expression of their desire, commented on by the Bugs: "That's the way it is---The more people have the more..." "---They want!" The Bugs at various points serve as Greek Chorus, messenger angels, inept guardian angels, and comic foils. They are Providence in the guise of the lowest. After acting as the essential agents who enable salvation of the children and apprehension of the criminal, Mr Bug asks his wife, "Would you be proud of me if I was smart like Uncle Wiggily?" She replies, "Of course not... You're only a bug." ▶ All the children are shut in the refrigerator that locks shut with a snap-latch handle, which the Bugs are too small to open. The closed refrigerator is a death-trap in which the children are slowly freezing, and, later, nearly cooked by the conflagration. (Too often children playing carelessly did get trapped and die by asphyxiation in old abandoned snap-latch refrigerators in dumps.) ▶ The Bugs initially attempt to free the children from the fridge by attaining to the latch. They construct a ladder out of straws from the broom. Little engineering projects like this are found in other Du Bois stories, e.g. when Young Hawk devises a keel constructing a dugout canoe.
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