The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-28
Bedtime Stories
Uncle wiggiIy's Home Run.
BY HOWARD r. GARIs

| to know.
The note so you won't forget what
you are going to get for me at the
/ store" answered the muskrat lady,
| laughing so that her whiskers flopped
up and down like sewing machine.
You're to call at the butcher shop,
and 1 have written down on this piece
of paper what you are to bring"
Then 1 won't have to remember,
and can't forget, as I did the time
started to get you some cold medicine
i and forgot what 1 wanted until Nam
ME made me sneeze with her flower
| bouquet" said Uncle Wiggily.
''All right, Nurse Jane. I'll bring
whatever you have written in this
note"
, Then the bunny uncle hoped into
hurry to find an adventure, he sprin-
killed. some pepper on the bologna sau-
| sage tires to make them go faster.
over the fields and thru the woods
rode the rabbit gentleman, looking on
all sides for an adventure, but he could
not seem to find any.
II guess I'll stop at the butcher
store and hand in Nurse James note"
said Mr.. Longears, after a bit. Then
L can ride on as far as L please"
"Ah, ha! So that's what she wants;
eh?' exclaimed the big, fat. pig gen
|
when Uncle Wigily handed it to him.
| Just sit there in your automobile,
| Uncle Wiggily, and I'll bring them out
in a jiffy!" and the pig butcher hur-
ried back into his shop, sort of whis-
i pering to himself: steaks, Chops,
| Nice chicken! Ham, Then he made
noise like sharpening a knife and
| Uncle Wiggily sat in his automob bile
waiting.
! There you are!'' called the butcher.
as he came putting out a little later,
for he was very fat. 'All wrapped up
nice and proper like
Il suppose it's something for my
supper" said Uncle Wiggily. And
now, as long as L have it, and can't
forget, I'm going to look once more
for an adventure
So he rode on and on in his auto
mobile and pretty soon, as he came
near a big field he heard voices shout
ing:
That's the way. Run. Run. Run!
Knock out n home run! Hurray!''
Goodness mel" thought Uncle Wig
| gly. THAT sounds like animals boys
playing baseball. 1 must stop and
watch"
And, surely enough, there was Sam
mic Littletail. the rabbit; Johnnie and
Billie Bushytail, the squirrels; Jackie
and Peetie Bow Wow, the puppy dog
| boys. and many others having a game
of ball in the lot.
3
called Billie Wagtair the goat chap,
who was pitching the ball Come on
have a game with us"
| I'm too old" spoke the rabbit gen
lehman, sort of bashful-like and
| hoping.
! mot at ALI" cried the boys. Come
on. You can bat the ball soon as
Jimmie Wibblewobble, the duck, hits
| it"
"All right" said Uncle Wiggily, for
h 4 Il nj 70 n iGaT0 nlf1f q
/ tie animal chaps. Slowly the bunny
uncle got down out of his auto and
walked over to the home plate, at
! which stood Jimmie, swinging his bat
under his wing.
He'll never hit that ball. said
Jackie Bow Wow, who was catching
the balls Billie Wagtail was pitching.
Il won't; Ell? What do you call
that?' cried Jimmie. and he struck at
the ball so hard that he spun around
like the wheel on a roller skate.
"Whacko-o!" went the bat on the
ball.
"Oh. Jimmie did hit it, cried some
of the animal boys. That's a fine
one Run, Jimmie! Rum
So Jimmie ran, waddled, as fast
as he could, and he safely reached
second base before Neddie Stubtail,
| the bear boy, got to the ball, which
fell near Uncle Wiggily's automobile.
! Now, hurry, Uncle Wiggily. It's
your turn said Billie Wagtail, the
goat boy, who was going to pitch
again the ball that Neddie tossed to
him. See if you can hit it, Uncle
Wiggily.'
yes, hit it so hard that you can
make home run-all the way
around the bases before any one
throws in the ball to put you out"
explained Sammie Littletail.
! IN try said Uncle Wiggily,
| twinkling his pink nose. He took a
firm hold of the bat, and when he
saw the ball coming toward him he
swung at it as hard as he could.
| N"Plink- PUNK" went the bat on the
ball and some of the animal boys
cried
.'Oh, he missed it,
NO, he didn't" cried others.
Uncle Wiggily has knocked the ball
out of sight! He can make a home
| rum
! And, as fast as he could go, away
ran the rabbit gentleman around the
bases. All the animal boys looked
for the ball Mr.. Longears had hit, but
it was not in sight. They stared up at
the sky, but no ball could they see.
! And then, when Uncle Wiggily was
/ back safe at the plate, having made a
| home run, there began to sift down
| out of the clouds some little fine
scraps of meat, like hail or rain.
Whats this?" cried the animal boy
| ball players.
Uncle Wiggily must have knocked
! the ball all to pieces" said Sammie,
4 land these are the odds and ends
coming down. Why, they're bits
of meat" he cried. picking some up.
wait a rninute," cried Uncle Wig
gily, running over to his automobile
Yes he called back, a second later
That's what it was. l struck at a,
meat ball and knocked it all to pieces.
Nurse Jane gave me a note to the
! butcher and he put in my auto some
chopped up meat balls to bring home
for supper. Neddie Stubtai1 must have
picked up one of the meat balls in
stead of the baseball, to throw back
to Billie, and 1 hit it. No wonder 1t
flew all to pieces,"
But your made a home rum said
Billie, the goat, as some one found the