"If it had been a bear, I'd have been _frightened_." "Oh!" said Uncle Andy.

"I see.

Well, what was it like?
Seems to me you didn't take much time to look at it, even if you weren't frightened." "I _did_ look," protested the Babe, glancing again, a little nervously, at the bushes.

"It was like--like a tre-_mend_ous big fat guinea pig, with a fat tail and all kind of rusty gray." "Now, that's not at all bad, considering you were in something of a hurry," said Uncle Andy approvingly.

"That's really a very good description of a woodchuck.