The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-11-02
NINE

Hopping my tail or crying Oh dear
Both. answered tho bunny.
am CRYING On. dear. because ! am
iu trouble said tho alligator. and
HW Hopping nay tan TO keep myseh
warm. Ike N, robin In the barn, as ths
old song has 1t"
TITS thS way said the skillery- seal
cry alligator Al creatures like my
sc'f-snakcs. mud turtles and frogs
when winter Us coming. bury ourselves
deep iu the warm mud OF some stream
There We sleep until warm weather
comes again or course ! really should
live iu a warmer country. where II
never SHOWS hut like II here, meant
.o got INTO my mud bed some time ago,
bat kept putting II of until now n
ls too late The mud is frozen and
cluno, dig into H."
That is too bad" said Uncle Wig
ril. "Stil IL might bc worse, | think |
can help you. Come home With me"
on, ! couldn't think Of that" cred
the alligator Thank YOU just IN,
same, but ! am SO large that would
: take up nll the spare room In your hol
low stump bungalow No. | had better
freeze to death. and the gster sighed
.adly
you shall do nothing OF the sort"
said Uncle Wtggily My bungalow is
too small 10 hold YOU, but I have a biz
! barn lou may stay In there all win
/ yer, ana win cover you with hay 50
. NNN VIII De warm
You are very kind" said the gator
'nS ! sometimes call him for shorD.
/ Are Nou sure I will not be In your way
| and that ! won't bother Nurse Jane
| Fuzzy Wuzzy?"
Not a hit Of a." cried the bunny un.
/ c,o. in his most jolly voice. "Coms
/ so the alligator slowly crawled after
/ Uncle WiGg!ly The sklllery scaiery
/ creature could not travel very fast, as he
+ whs cold, Just ar molaSrcs runs out OF
/ 'hc pitcher very slowly on cold MORNINGS
When the hot buckwheat cakes are watt
ing for a.
+ There you are' cried the bunny un-
,Ie hule later. opening tho barn door
ana letting the alligator In Now IN
cover on With hay and send Nurse Jane
out 10 YOU With come hot carrot soup" Z"
on. me said the skillery. scaiery
Soon he was fast asleep r1aor 10 hay,
as happy as thou,h In his mud bed
Nurse Jane had given him some het
SOUP and she said Uncle Wig.'y hod
doue Just right to bring his alliga,cr
frleud home Nurse Jane WIS very 20 Id
that way. She never bother. q hern,If II
or worried and she mover seeded Uncie
NiggiIy when he would do thr straneeat
4 thlngs, why. one tlmc, I rsrlenioer, ha
brought homt 20 dinner an old elephant
gentleman who had run AVN rom a
circus And yod know how much elc-
phHnls have to oat.
Welcome" said Nurse LAM. and size
never found hl' OF fault when she had
10 run out the back doot AMI borrow
three hundred rud twcnt, seven ioayc :
NJ bread from all the neighhors 10 haXu
enough for the elephant
Nurse Jane was always like .nnt But
] was telling You about tHcle Wiggiiy
and the alligator. 1t was no; .ong after
the sklllery sCaltry creature ca ne 10
sleep lu the barn that big lad of wood
was lott In front OF Uncle Wirgily's hol-
low stump bungalow
II was wood re had ordered for the
! winter to keep .,ursc Jane AID himst /.
warm.
An. hs Now thero is work f,r me "
{ said the rabbit gentleman. "chat wood
! which is In long sticks. must he saw I'd
INTO little pieces or II viii cot 20 int,
lh" cellar or into the stove. All hs
, love TO saw wood
The rabbit gentleman We lust xo!n,
io get the saw TO cut the wood up int
short lengths when, all OF a sudden h,
cried
"Ouch Oh, my Oh dear"
Whatever is lie matter" a.Nod Nur.,
Jane, who grew so excited that s'i
. dropped the ball OF yarn frhr1 which sL,
was mending Uncls Wlgailys sncrs
It's my rheumatism again" the rsbt,
k gentleman sadly said II nave such
think lOu had better telephone for ~
iossum Hen bring some mricine"
"In do that" said Nurse ,iaur. NOV
\ don't YOU worry Get right to bed aL'
. the doctor viii be here soon.
But what about cutting up the wood /?
: asked Uncle NiggIly The weather !
getting warmer and think II i4 gCins 4
be rain, | can't leave the wooi uu, 80 II vii
yet all wet. II 4, does IL will rot burn
7 Oh, dear what trouble I have, Here
II hoped to he able to cut the pile u woo'
into short lengths, and my rheumatism
r gets the best Of mt. oh, dear
~ "liu' Don't worry Bit" sad anothe
voice u viii cu' the wood for YOU witt
e. ms nutmeg CRATE. tail which has hump
v ON II almost as sharp as u razor
And who are your asked Uncle Wig
" "Thc skiIcry. scalcry ALLIGATOR. WHOM
a YOU 50 kindly allowed TO sl,ep IN you
barn, was the answer rho suddcl
= spell of warm weather awakened ne, II
soon saw the wood for YOU with m!
20 tail. and thou | can go bach to sleel
again Don't worry Uncle NiSg'iy. luy
no fear
b. SO the bunny gentleman had no fe,r
: aud soon the alligator was Saying IT.
, long sticks OF wood into short oncs an
y putting them In the cellar VI no hoVo,
u stump bungalow.
Then. when tho wood wps oil cut th
. rntor giving him his short nhmt) WEI
e back to sleep IN the barn, gnd Dr. Pos
=, sum made Uncle Wlsgily's rhsumatis,
y pain much better. No after Al, Ycu sa
y II was "A good thing the slligstor didn
= crawl under the mud for his long winter
nap.
N And " the gas stove doesn 'nlk In Il
k -leep and wake up the electric light whs
10 its trying to see now dark n In down ce
a lar. III tell YOU next about UnG,s Nigsi
" and the peppers
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M A pficeleaa Mule