Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-08-26
Observation-Disclosures
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE TOY
sol DIERS

One day, after Buddy and Brlgnteyes
EPiEx had gone to school, their mama
kcame In the sitting room, where Uncle
u SNiggily, the old gentleman rabbit, was
oitting before the open fire on the
III hearth, reading a book that told him
\ how to make his ears stick up straight:
Are you going out this morning:
Il asked Mrs. Pigg.
"Not that know off," answered
II Uncle Wiggily. why do you ask?'
because want to take my baby,
II Sister Piggy-Iggie, out for little air
ing" she replied, land I don't want to
n leave the house all by itself, for fear 1t
4 might get lonesome. But If you Will
stay at home it will be all right"
"Oh, yes Of course I'll stay" said the
Told gentleman rabbit This Is very
food book to read, and wouldnt
II leave It for anything After find out
4 how 70 make my long ears stick up
letraight l intend to study about how
Go make my nose twinkle faster. !
cant make it go very fast at all" and
lust to show that he was right, Uncle
twinkled his nose like TWO
n stars and part of another one on
frosty night. e..:
.'Oh. think you do very we'll SAID
Mn. Pigg politely. Indeed, II l cou,a
make my nose go that way l snoulo
/ feel very proud and happy. But ! sup
pose you will keep on studying"
E "Oh, yes" answered Uncle Wlsehy
and then, when Mrs. Pigg took her IT.
&eae baby named Piggie-1ggie out Tor an
airing, the old gentleman rabbit kept
Ton reading his book, and practising on
sticking his ears straight up al 'he
Twinkle faster and faster.
calling, and making his funny nose
All At once, Just as he reached the
most interesting part OF the BOOK;
4 whore 1t told how some rabbits couio
stand UP on the end of their tal!s,
Uncle Wiggily heard noise outside
the house. 1t was smiling, snumns
sort Of noise and the old gentleman
Erabbit knew 1t was some kind OF an
q animal prowling about.
.Maybe it's dog" he said. May
E.be It 10 old circus dog Percival come
10 zee me. ] hope it is, for I am get
\ tinG q bit lonesome" So he went
softly to the window to look out and
& lust then he heard a voice saying:
II s'Here's where he lives. That old
Srabbit who fooled us, b ybuilding the
Ls6 block house, lives in here, and he's all
4 alone for the guinea pig children have
yxone to school, and Mrs. Pigg Is out. -
Then we can easily get him. said
Tanother voice.
And can have some OF him When
{syo ucatch him." asked third voice
small sort of voice, and then Uncle
SWiggily knew it was those same three
l bad wolves after him-the big wolf,
the middle sized one and the little one,
ooh, what shall do? What shall l
do?" whispered the old gentleman rab-
II Sit. "Anyhow, I must lock all the doors
and windows and that may keep them
/ out until Mrs. Pigg comes back, and
Then she can telephone for police
man dog and drive them away"
!, Do the rabbit gentleman ran to lock
Il the front door, and, as good luck
Y would have it, the windows and all
4 the other doors were already locked.
" Then Uncle Wiggily could hear the
wolves shifting and snuffing some
more, and one of them began to
& scratch at the front door, as If he
Il would scratch it down.
Come, this will never do" though
the old gentleman rabbit. II must be
brave. mustn't wait for Mrs. Pigg
Ito come back, for the wolves may grab
her II do. must be brave and drive
them away myself. How can do it?'
SO he thought and thought and all
R the while those bad wolves were try
f ing to get in. And then Uncle Wig
gily happened to see box of toy SOL
h iiers that Santa Claus had given Bud
ssdy Pigg for Christmas.
oh! they were the finest kind of
soldiers and quite large. They could
move their arms, and legs, when some
1 one did 1t for them, and they could
point their guns seven different ways,
and though Of course the toy soldiers
Scouldn't shoot off the guns, still if any
one said "bang-bang' real loudly, it
sounded as good as If the guns actu-
ally shot of themselves.
That's the thing!'' cried Uncle
4 WiEgily. "Those toy soldiers will
scare away the wolves"
G. SO the old gentleman rabbit took the
soldiers out of the box and he went
around to all the windows. On each
window sill he put some soldiers, and
ii he made them stand up straight, ant