Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-08-05
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE SKIP.
PING ROPE.
(By Howard r. Garis.)
Paset Newspaper Service.

Copyright by Evening News PUBLISH
ing Company of Newark, N. j., 1919
Out on the woodland path, in front
Of the hollow stump bungalow, where
lived Uncle Wiggily Longears, the Lice
rabbit gentleman, some little animal
girls were having fun There we're
Susie Littletail the rabbit; Lnlu and
Alice Wibblewobble, the ducks; Bright
eyes the guinea pig girl; Sister Sallie,
Jennie Chipmunk, with her striped
coat, and many others.
Some were playing with their dolls,
, wheeling them up and down in car
riages made of corncobs; others We're
roller skating on empty spools of
thread, and some were skipping the
grapevine rope.
Il like to watch the skipping rope
girls best Of ALL" said Uncle Wiggily
"Why Is that?' asked Nurse Jane
Fuzzy Wuzzy the muskrat lady house
keeper, who lived with Uncle Wiggily.
ooh, the skipping rope girls are 80
lively the rabbit gentleman said.
F., "They hop up and down, they run in
and out, and the grapevine rope keeps
! turning. Why, 1t makes me feel as
though I wanted to jump rope myself
he exclaimed lauShingly.
"Ha! You'd better not try 1t - not
with your rheumatism Nurse Jane
said.
mo, s'pose not" agreed Uncle Wig
gily. can old rabbit such as am has
no right to be skipping rope"
However, Uncle Wiggily put on his
tall silk hat, and took his red, white
and blue striped barberpole rheuma-
tism crutch down from the piano stool,
and went out Uncle Wiggily could not
help stopping to watch the little girl
animals jumping rope. Lulu and Alice
Wibblewobble, the ducks, were turning
the grapevine at either end, and Susie
Littletail, the bunny girl, was jumping.
! "Now give me three slow-pepper!
Susie called to Lulu.
And after that little salt" sus-
gested Alice.
Eyes," said Susie, land then want
some mustard and vinegar!"
my goodness me sakes alive and
some ice cream pudding" cried Uncle
Wiggily. whats all this about salt
and pepper mustard and vinegar? Are
you going to make a lettuce salad,
Susie?"
"Oh, you funny Uncle Wiggily!"
laughed the rabbit girl, as she got
ready to skip rope. ''Those are only
names for different kinds Of jumping,
she explained.
"Oh, are they?" asked the rabbit
gentleman, sort of puzzled like, as he
scratched his silk hat with his left ear
Names for jumping, eh?"
| "Yes," said Alice. Salt jumping Is
very slow, and SO is sugar skipping,
but pepper is faster, and vinegar IS
faster still and mustard - well, mus
tard jumping is the fastest kind there
is, Uncle Wiggily.'
Lulu.
TITS too firing" added Susie. Now,
Uncle Wiggily, watch me jump
So, while the duck girls turned at
either end OF the wild grape vine rope
Susie ran in and began skipping, frst
going slowly, like sugar or salt, and
then jumping faster and faster until
she was doing the mustard style.
There - that's enough" she said,
after a bit. Nov 1t is your turn to
skip, Lulu"
So Lulu took her turn and then Alice
jumped and 50 did others Of the animal
girls, all having a good time In the
woods near Uncle Wiggily's hollow
stump bungalow.
well" said the old rabbit gentleman
to himself as he went on for his daily
walk, Il wonder II skipping the rope
wouldn't be good for my rheumatism
I could begin jumping sugar, or salt
style, as that is slow, and, after bit
u could go faster, until I was doing
mustard.
"Now mustard is very hot, I know
and hot things are good for my rheu
matism. I believe I'll try It, I'll get
rope and begin skipping. OF course
at first, I'll do it off in the woods by
myself, where Nurse Jane won't see
me and laugh"
/ So Uncle Wiggily went on through
the woods until he came to place
where the wild grapevines grew. With
his sharp gnawing teeth he cut off 8
long piece Of the vine, which was al