"Ha! perhaps I can help you!" suddenly exclaimed a voice.

Then, as quickly as you can break an egg by dropping it on the floor (only
of course you must not do it without permission), who should appear but
Nurse Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy, the muskrat. She was out walking with Sammie and
Susie Littletail.

"Oh, somebody do please help me!" cried Grandfather Goosey-Gander. "I've
lost my glasses, my leg is caught, and I have a pain in my back. Oh, oh,
oh!"

"I'll gnaw through those sticks in a jiffy!" cried Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy, for a
jiffy is very quick time indeed. Oh, yes, and a broken down couch besides!

So, telling Sammie and Susie Littletail to stand back, and calling to
Jimmie and Lulu to remain with them, the muskrat nurse set to work to free
Grandfather Goosey-Gander. Her teeth were like the chisels the carpenter
uses and in a few seconds the old duck's leg was free. Oh, how glad he
was, and how thankful to Nurse Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy! Of course the duck and
rabbit children also were glad.

Then Jane gnawed out a little crutch for grandfather to walk with, as he
was a trifle lame, and what do you think? Why, Susie Littletail found his
glasses for him; and Sammie and Jimmie rubbed his back so nicely that the
pain all went out of that. Now I call that doing something don't you?

Well, Grandfather Goosey-Gander started for home, and Jimmie and Lulu
asked Sammie and Susie to come and play with them. Nurse Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy
said they might, and they had a fine time under the trees in the woods,