Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-06-22
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
UNCLE wIGG1LY AT sEAsHORE

| UNCLE WlGGlLf AL SEAS1OnE.
| CONTINUED from Yesterday y
| "Ha! l wonder if that can be the
fuzzy fox or the skillery-scalery alliga'
tor with the double-jointed tail?" said
Uncle Wiggily.
So he looked out Of his room, blu;
he couldn't see anything. Then, just
as he was going to sleep again, he
heard the voice once more saying:
ooh! how cold and shivery ami"
There must surely be someone
there!" thought Uncle Wiggily, so GU:
into the hall he went.
J. And there he saw queer sort OF
animal, rather green in color, with a
shell on it's back and long, pinchy-
inchy claws, and two long things, LIKE
toothpfcks, sticking out in front Of IA
eyes.
"Oh! What are your" asked Uncle
Wiggily in surprise.
If you please" said the funny ami
NAL. Il am the ice cold lobster"
And, why, pray, are you ice cold ~
asked Uncle Wiggily, for he could see
perfectly we'll that the animal was a
lobster from of the beach, though he
didn't know why the queer creature
was cold. ,r '@'
well, you see, am cold because
they made me sleep on chunk of ice, I"
replied the lobster, and he shivered so
that his claws ratified up and down.
$50 couldn't stand 1t any more and
just ran away" he went on.
BLESS my heart!" cried Uncle Wig
gily. why did they do that, and who
was it made you sleep on a chunk of
ice, like Mr.. Whitewash, the polar
bear? Who was it,"
THE man in the hotel" said the lob
ster gentleman. "He put me on the
ice. Oh, how cold and shivery, an" "
THAT is too bad" cried Uncle Wig
gily. III" you will come into my room
will let you wrap up in blanket
and get warm"
THAT is awfully kind of you," spoke
the lobster, clanking his claws togeth.
er, to show that he was happy. II
will come in
So into Uncle Wiggily's room the
lobster crawled, and soon he was we'll
wrapped up in warm blanket, and
then he went fast, fast asleep, like the
wax doll with only one eye.
And Uncle Wiggily went to sleep,
also, and would you ever believe it II
didn't tell you? Along in the middle
of the night there was funny noise
near the room Of the old gentleman
rabbit.
"Hh! Who is there?" he asked, sit.
ting up in bed.
Il ami" cried a voice. Il am a bad
old sea lion, and I want you for my
breakfast! Come along, now!"
whats that?" asked Uncle Wig.
gily, wondering if he had heard right.
~.
II want you,' said the sea lion in
a savage voice as he jumped into I'm
Gle Wiggily's room.
And just then the lobster-the ice
cold lobster-awoke in his warm blan.
ket. He heard what the sea lion said
and right away he cried out:
"Shoo! You must get out of here If
you please, Mr.. Sea Lion! Don't you
dare hurt Uncle Wiggily!"
Then that~brave, ice cold lobster
crawled out Of his warm blanket, and
he went over to the sea lion and he
cuffed him with his claws on both ears,
and on his flippers and then the sea
lion was 50 alarmed and kerflumexed
that he ran out and didn't bother
Uncle Wiggily any more that night,
am glad to say.
Then the lobster crawled back into
his blanket after he had clattered his
claws together couple of times to
scare away any more sea lions that
might be hiding about, and Uncle
Wiggily after he had thanked the lob.
ster, went to bed himself. And his
epizootic was much better and he and
the lobster became good friends 3
Now am going to write more about
Uncle Wiggily being at the seashore
for his health in the next story. In