Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-06-29
UNCLE wlee,Ly UP A TREE.

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DO you like the hot sun, Uncle Wig
gtly?' asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy wuxzy,
the muskrat lady ~honsekeeper, as she
stood one day in front of the soldier
tent of the old rabbit gentleman, near
MS hollow stump bungalow.
Xix h hot he respond
edY Not exactly"
right out in the open?" asked Nurse
Jane. why don't you have it in the
shady woods?H'
Because IL I did" answered Uncle
Wiggily, RI could not keep a good look
out and be on guard against the mos
quftoes. / have to nave an open space
around me. And the sun sometimes is
and before l know it the mosquitoes.
are after me-"
II thought So" spoke Nurse Jane.
And now l am going to make matters
more pleasant for you. l am going over
where Toodle and Noodle Flattail, the
Whacker, the Oldest beaver of them all.
I'm going to ask Toodle and Noodle to
bring a tree from the woods and plant
1T In front of your tent. Then you'll
have a nice shade and still there will be
plenty of room for you to see the mos
Quitoes If they come"
"Fine!" cried Uncle Wiggily, making
800 Eess Wy 14nC kllC cIlO Ox ~
Ice cream cone THAT will be Just love.
ly."
Toodle and Noodle, the beaver boys,
said they would be glad to plant a tree
in front of Uncle Wiggily's tent. They
got some other beaver boys to help
them and uprooted a big horse chestnut
that grew near the edge of the beaver
pond.
Beavers don't very often uproot trees.
Ihey gnaw them down with their big
teeth. orange colored, which are almost
as strong as a carpenters chisels.
And when the tree was planted in
front Of Uncle Wiggily's tent it began
to grow, for the beaver boys sprinkled
it with water from the pond.
Yes, it is certainly nice to sit in the
of the tree instead of in the hot
sum- spoke the bunny uncle as he
marched up and down with his talcum
powder bean shooting popgun over his
20 think Of it."
1T would be a good thing II you
could climb up the tree. Uncle Wig
gily." said Jollie Longtail, the mouse
boy, who stopped at the bunny uncle's
soldier camp on his way home from
school.
"Why?" asked the bunny.
Because then you could look far off
and see the mosquitoes long before they
reached here" spoke Jollie. 1.-The tree
would be like a light house tower for
you"
SO it would" cried Uncle wiggily.
But l can climb a tree and eve
could"
Il can fix it so you cant" cried a new
voice. apd there stood Jacko Kinkytail,
the monkey boy. I'll make a little
ladder for you, from a wild grape vine,
,fasten one end on the ground and the
other end up in the tree and you can go
nm ord lnrrrn s1y@ 200 %I~ -N~s-- ~ ~
Jacko.
THAT will be great cried Uncle
Wiggily. Its FUN being up a tree"
But just you wait and see what hap
| pens.
! 1t did not take Jacko Kinkytail long
to make the ladder out of the wild
grape vine. He did not use the very
widest parts, for. if he had, the vine
might have tried to jump about OF
stand on it's head, playful like. and that
would have made Uncle Wiggily fall.
So Jacko used the tamest parts of the
wild grape vine, and soon Uncle Wig
gily could climb the tree.
After that, when he was marching
up and down on guard in front of his
tent, and he happened to feel sleepy
he would Just hop up into the tree i'm
stead of lying dow to take a nap. And
in this way he could tell when the bad
army mosquitoes were coming from
their swamp.
Every day Uncle Wiggily drilled the
animal boys in how to carry thei,
broo.nstick guns and how to be sol.
diers. They anne after school, and on
afternoon when the bunny rabbit gen.
tlelnan was waiting for them he fel,
himself getting sleepy.
'Ha! guess III climb UP in the
tree" he said. THAT will keep me-
awake. and l can also see if any O.
h mosquito army is coming after me.
So MIR. Longears climbed up thu
grape vine ladder He looked off 10.
ward the mosquito swamp, but he saw
none of the bad. biting bugs, and then
as he came to a soft place IN one Of thu
tree branches he sat dawn.
There were some prickly horse chest.
nut burrs on the tree, but they wer,
not yet ripe, though the prickers Oh
them were sharp n stiff. But Uncle
Wiggily did not sit on any of them.
Pretty o it was so warm ana com
Portable up in the tree that the rabbi,
gentleman fell asleep. Fast asleep HI
fell-not falling out of the tree. though
you understand-and while he slep,
some mosquitoes saw him.
TIA! Now is our chance to get tina
Uncle Wiggily Longears rabbit
buzzed the mosquitoes. Well tickle
him on his pink, twinkling nose, ant
he'll sneeze and fall down out OF thu
tree. And when he falls he'll be 81
stunned and not able to move that ".
can easily pick him up in our bills AMI
fly away with him."