nearly noon
But I know one thing , I 'm never going to do any jumping for any squatty old toads any more . '' So Uncle Wiggily traveled on and on , and when it came night he did n't have any place to sleep . But as it happened he met a kind old water snake , who had a nice house in an old pile of wood , and there the rabbit stayed until morning , when the water snake got him a nice breakfast of pond lilies , with crinkly eel-grass sauce on . Pretty soon it was nearly noon that day , and Uncle Wiggily was about to sit down on a nice green mossy bank in the woods -- not a toy bank with money in it , you understand , but a dirt-bank , with moss on it like a carpet . That 's where he was going to sit . `` I think I 'll eat my dinner , '' said the old gentleman rabbit as he opened his valise , and just then he heard a voice in the woods singing . And this was the song : `` Oh dear !