And the mother could do nothing but sit up and chatter after him abusively as he sailed away to his nest.
"You see, the mother was brave enough, as I said before, but very careless.

She was different from the ordinary run of woodchucks, in that she had only three feet.

She had lost her left hind paw." "Was that because she was so careless ?" asked the Babe.
Uncle Andy looked at him suspiciously.

Like so many other story-tellers, he preferred to make all the jokes himself.

He was suspicious of other people's jokes.