Well, it had been over a year since Red Riding Wolffe could fit into Jonny Rabbit's secret burrow, so she was not able to warn Mr. Neigh! about where NOT to walk, as she rode on his back home from Grandma's!. What little Red Riding Wolffe did not know about Little Jonny Rabbit's secret burrow, was about to turn her safe trip back home into a living nightmare! Shall we continue!?
Actually, since her last visit with Jonny Rabbit in his secret burrow, which he had dug right at the edge of the hedge row by the path that went by the Wolffe's little cabin by the tall tree, he had dug it out further, and now it was under part of the path! He liked to play spy, and would sit and watch traffic go by on the path, from a little hole he had poked through to the surface, by a rock that was buried in the path.
He had not caught Mrs. Weasel using his 'secret' burrow to eve's drop on the Wolffe family, so he was not aware that she was there the night that Mr. Neigh! and his little rider were returning from their eventful Christmas visit with Grandma Wolffe. He had just crawled down into the secret burrow, where Mrs. Weasel had already been for awhile, just in time to be an instigator in the next major event in Red Riding Wolffe's Christmas visit to Grandma's!
At the exact, same moment that Mr. Neigh! was about to step onto the very spot where the hidden spy burrow lay beneath the path almost to Riding Wolffe's home by the tall tree in the green meadow, Rabbit bumped right into Mrs. Weasel, in the pitch-black darkness of the little spy burrow! Both Mrs. Weasel and little Jonny were so surprised that they jumped right through the thin layer of earth that formed the ceiling of the spy burrow! And, Mr. Neigh! was so shocked at their sudden appearance, and the shrieking noise both rodents were making, that he bolted!
Now, if you know how horses react to surprise, you know that Mr. Neigh! began running for dear life! He was terrified! It almost knocked Miss Riding Wolffe off his back, but she clung to his mane with all the strength she had!
Dense clouds hung low in the cold sky, making his fleeing all the more dangerous, and frightening! After what seemed like hours, Mr. Neigh! slowed to a fast run, then to a walk. After a bit, his heart settled down, and he started to think again. He had not run like this for many years, and when he got his thoughts back, he realized how tired he was, and, he also saw he was lost. His fast gallop had taken them miles from home, and they were now in a thick forest. It was very dark.
"Oh! Mr. Neigh! I'm really scared! Where are we?" Little Miss Riding Wolffe had almost lost her sense of Creator's care and protection, and was really, really scared from the enormous fright both she and Mr. Neigh! had run from. She had been so happy to see how close to her little, warm home they were just the moment before the scare How she wished she was there now!
Mr. Neigh! felt very sorry for his little friend. "Honey, I'm not sure. I'm so sorry that I got so scared. I'm afraid that I'm lost, now. I wish I could do something to make you feel better, but I don't know what."
"Oh, Mr. Neigh! You can do something!," cried his little companion. You can pray with me to our Father in Heaven. He knows how lost we feel, and He knows exactly where we are! If we ask Him, He will guide us where he wants us to be, safe, for tonight!"
"Yes! My little friend," Mr. Neigh! said. "You are absolutely right! Let's pray now, and talk with our Father. He will show us the way we are to go!"
"Let me talk to Him first, Mr. Neigh!. You are tired."
"Dear Father, I know that You saw Mr. Neigh! when he got scared back there. Now, he doesn't know where he is, and both Mr. Neigh! and I are scared. We really need Your help! You are always so kind to us, help us to trust You, and to listen and do just what You say to us. And, dear Father, please make Mr. Neigh! to be rested and comfortable. He is so very tired! He needs Your strength, too!"
When she stopped, and listened, Mr. Neigh! was breathing like he was asleep! She patted his head with her forepaw, and he made a quiet whinny, like he did when always she patted him when he was asleep in his barn stall, at home. She was satisfied.
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When she put her own head down to sleep, to her Father in Heaven she said, "Father, please give mom and dad good peace tonight. Tell them that You are taking care of me, and Mr. Neigh!, so they won't worry. Thank You!" she went to sleep, too.
The world Little Miss Riding Wolffe lived in was a simple, happy place. There was little to fuss and worry about, because the community hadn't started to fuss and worry, except for a few pioneer worrier and fussers, like Mrs. Weasel! But, as time went on. to our day, more and more folk learned to prefer fussing and worrying! Riding Wolffe remembered something her grandpa told her many times, before he went to heaven. "Honey," he would say in his grandpa-voice-for-granddaughter, "we laugh and I tell you fun stories, and we have lots of joy together, but this one thing is most important of all; always love and trust your Father in Heaven. He is the One Who made you, and all the world around you, both friend and enemy. Because He loves you, he will not ever let more trouble come to you than is best for you to grow up with great trust for His love. If you learn to trust Him in every part of your life, and everywhere you go, you will always be very close to both Him, and to me - because I am by His side always. He is my very best friend, and I really hope you keep Him as your best friend, too."
Whenever he said this to her, grandpa seemed more loveable and cuddly. She knew that her Father in heaven was very warm and cuddly too, and she felt His presence, just like she now felt her grandpa's presence, much like when she used to when she was sitting on his lap. or running around him in the meadow, or curled up by him when he told her funny stories about human children, way in the future. Some of them were named Cynthia, Melissa, and Eriel! What great stories her grandpa told about these three little angels, who had a father and grandpa who loved them very, very, very much! She loved to hear the stories about them.
So, dear child, you can imagine what Red Riding Wolffe was dreaming about as she slept by Mr. Neigh! that scary night! Her dreams of grandpa and the Father in Heaven, and her three little friends in grandpa's stories filled her little wolf-pup head all night!
"Chee! Chee!Chee! Sheeee! Chit Chit Chit, Cut-Cut-Cut, Cheree!"
It was Blue Jay! He had found them, and was sitting on Mr. Neigh!'s ear, trying to wake both him and Red Riding wolffe up!. Of course, what they heard was . . . "It's morning! It's morning! Wake up! Wake up!, sleepy heads!"
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