The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-07
Bedtime Stories

BY HOWARD 4. GARIS

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Uncle WigGily and the Loliy-Pops.
Present - armsi Parade - over,
everybody come early tomorrow and
We'll drill some more." said Uncle
Wiggily Longears, the rabbit gentle
man captain soldier, as he stood in
front of his tent near the hollow
stump bungalow and watched the ami
NAL boys march past one day
"Oh, Uncle Wiggilyi" cried Susie
Littletail, the rabbit girl.
What is it?'' asked the bunny, for,
now that the practice march, or drill
was over he could talk like regular
rabbit. What do you want. Susie y
"Oh, if you please, Uncle WigEily,
can't some of US girls do something in
this mosquito war time?" asked the
little rabbit sis. Jennie Chipmunk,
and Lulu and Alice Wibblewobble, the
ducks, and Arabella Chick-we all
want to do something. too"
And you shall,' cried the jolly
rabbit, I'm glad you feel that way
about it. You, also, may come to the
drill tomorrow and then he whisp-
cred something to Susie and the other
animal girls that made them smile.
"Oh, We'll be herei' they all said.
Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the musk
rat lady housekeeper for the bunny
rabbit gentleman, cooked his supper
in the hollow stump bungalow that
evening, and brought it out to him in
his tent. For tho Uncle Wiggiiy was
studying to be a soldier, and training,
or drilling, the animal boy chaps the
same way, he sometimes let Nurse
Jane cook for him. Tho nearly al
ways he got his own meals in his tent
at camp fire, as does a real soldier.
Tomorrow" said Uncle Wiggily to
Nurse Jane, Il shall drill the animal
boys and have them practice with
nets"
Tennis nets or fish nets?" asked
the muskrat lady.
Neither one" answered the bunny.
I'll give them mosquito nets, and I'll
see how many of the bad biting bugs
they can catch. This is to be real
war"
Then I'll get lot of talcum pow
der and witch hazel ready" said Nurse
Jane, for some of your soldier chaps
may be wounded or bitten
Exactly So agreed Uncle Wiggily.
THAT is what Susie Littletail. the
duck girls and other animal lassies
are coming for-to be Red Cross
nurses And they are going to give
the boy soldiers a little treat, too
"A treat? How nice, What kind ?"
asked Nurse Jane.
"A lollypop treat" said Uncle Wig
gily with a laugh. Il gave Susie the
money to buy them, and she'll bring
them here when she and the other girl
animals come to watch the drill to-
morrow Then, when it is all over, the
new Red Cross nurses will invite the
! soldier boys into my tent and treat
them to ice cream, sassafras and
sliced orange lollypops."
| That will be grand,'' cried Nurse
Jane. 1T makes me want to be young
again.
You shall have a lollypop, too"
promised the bunny.
The next day the animal boys came
| to Uncle Wiggily'S tent and with their
broomstick and bean shooter guns
! they marched and drilled while
Johnnie Bushytail, the boy squirrel,
| beat on his starch box-rub-a dub dub
drum.
Now then to catch the mosquftoes!"
cried Uncle Wiggily, as he passed out
some long handled nets Nurse Jane
had made for the boys They took
them, rushed to the swamp where the
| mosquito enemy lived and caught hun
dreds of them in the nets, shutting
the bad, biting bugs up in fly traps.
"Oh, but I'm Bit" suddenly cried
Sammie Littletail, the rabbit boy.
| 80 am IT, said Billie Bushytail, tls..
squirrel.
! Now is your chance, Red Cross
nurses!" said Captain Wiggily Long
ears, and Susie and the other animal
girls put witch hazel and talcum pow
der on the bites of the animal boys.
And now for the treat" cried
Uncle Wiggily. Get ready, Susie.
Present lollypops!"
Well, you should have seen how
surprised the animal boys were when
they saw the nice Jumps of candy on
the pointed sticks, for that is what
lollypops are, as you well know.
So the boy soldiers and the Red
Cross nurses had a good time in Uncle
Wiggily's tent, eating the lollypops off
the sticks and putting the sticks in a
neat little pile. as all soldiers are
taught to do; for noatness is one of the
first things learned in war time.
Just about now something was nap
pening outside the bunny rabbit cap
tain's tent. The bad fox was creeping
softly up to it, saying to himself:
Il know how to catch that rabbit
I'll pull all the wooden tent pegs out
so his tent will fail flat to the ground
and when he is all tangled up under it
I'll grab him"
So the fox started to do this With
his teeth ne pulled out first one wood
en- peg then another. A tent, you
know. has ropes around the bottom, OF
half way up the sides, just as your
bonnet has strings on it to hold it UNI
der your chin. And the tent ropes are
tied fast to tent pegs driven into the
ground
Peg after peg the bad fox pulled
up. and then Uncle Wiggily's tent be-
gan to fall.
bunny uncle, frightened like.
Il seei" said Jackie Bow Wow the
puppy dog The bad fox has pulled
up the tent pegs and thrown them tai
awa71" which was lust what he had
| done.
What shall we do?" cried Uncle
WiggiIv without tent pegs my ten
will not stay up and the fox viii gel
met
No, he will not,' shouted sam
: mic IittIetaiI. Quick soldier boys
5 shoulder arms with the lollypoI
sticks! They will do for pegs to hoe
up the tent, Forward-marchi Charg'
on the fox enemy with lollypol
J sticks,"
And the boy animal soldiers did this
With the sticks from which they haC
1 eaten the loIlypop , candy they mad
the tent firm and fast, so it did no
: fall down And Peetie Bow Wow
l tickled the fog with an extra lollNpol