The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-09
Bedtime Stories
Uncle WiggiIy and the CoIored Eggs.
BY HOWARD r. GARIs

Uncle WiggiIy and the Colored Eggs.
First shot marbles" cried Sammie
Littletail, the rabbit boy
First shot,'' cried Johnnie Bushy-
tail, the squirrel chap. 81 said 1t
first,''
mo, I said at first!'' spoke Sammie
again.
"Oh, you did!'' chartered Johnnie.
Just then Uncle Wiggily Longears,
the rabbit gentleman, came along.
What's all the trouble about" he
asked the animal toys.
Johnnie and 1 want to play a game
of marbles" explained Sammie, land
l hollered out that l was to shoot
first,''
well. to make things even I'll shoot
first" said Uncle Wiggily with a laugh
and a twinkle of his pink nose, land
whose ever marble l first knock out
of the ring he shall shoot first after
me-
We'll, Sammie and Johnnie thought
that was fair, SO they made a ring in
a smooth place on the earth path in
the woods, and each one put in some
marbles.
Very pretty the marbles were, too,
being made of glass, with a sort of APP
pie core in the middle of red, pink,
green, blue, purple and golden colors.
Now, one of you lend me a shoot
err said Uncle Wiggily, land I'll see If
remember some Of the things I used
to know when L was young and boy
ish rabbit"
And he had remembered, as he very
soon showed those boys, for with 4
spin and a crack of his shooter marble
he knocked from the ring an agate
belonging to Sammie Littletail.
There, I shoot first after Uncle
WiggiIy." cried the rabbit boy.
We'll, I don't mind" spoke the
squirrel chap. for they were both sat
isfied when Uncle Wiggily had thus
settled things for them. So they be-
gan playing a regular game, putting
the pretty round glass marbles in the
ring and knocking them out.
After a while along came Billie
Bushytail the other squirrel boy, and
he wanted to play in the game, but
there were not enough marbles for
him. And Jackie and Peetie Bow
Wow, the puppy.dog boys, also want
ed to play, but they had no marbles,
either.
Cant you buy some?" asked John
ME of his brother Billie.
NO, l haven't any money"
81 know where we can get some
thing just as good as marbles" spoke
Jackie Bow Wow. Il saw some pref
ty things, all speckled and ring-streak-
led as | was coming through the
woods now. They We're round like
marbles. and if we get them, and put
them in the ring, we. can have some
fun knocking them out"
Some on. we'll get Them" said
Peetie. 81 want some marbles, too.
Were they as pretty as the ones Sam
mic and Johnnie have 2" asked the
little puppy dog of his brother.
"Prettier," answered Jackie. Come
on"
So the animal boys hurried on
through the woods, and pretty soon
they came to a place where down in
the grass, were some pretty round
white things, speckled with brown.
Take Them said Jackie to his
where there are more, too, only thew
are up in a tree
I'VE can easily get those, too" said
Billie Bushytail. the squirrel, "as my
brother and | are good climbers" and
when the puppy dog showed them
where they were Che having seen them
in the tree as he looked down in IL
from the top of a hill) the squirrel
brothers took them down to the
ground in their soft paws
oh. these are very pretty" cried
Sammie, and they were. being of blue
like the sky. They are as pretty as
my marbles"
Now Wen divide these coIored
then we can all play in the game. And
theseedidn't cost us anything, either"
And they're such nice coIors too
added Sammie, looking at some of the
blue ones.
So hesanimal boys made a ring in
smooth place in the dirt and began TO
play another game of marbles, but. no
sooner had they begun to play them.