The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-27
Bedtime Stories
Uncle WiggiIy and the Pushes.
BY HOWARD R. GARIs

Uncle Wiggily and the Pussies.
What have you there?" asked
Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy. the musk
rat lady housekeeper, kas she saw
Uncle Wiggily Longears, the rabbit
gentleman, come hopping along out
of the woods toward his no low stump
bungalow one afternoon.
"Oh, nothing very much" answered
the bunny, who carried in his paws a
bundle wrapped in brown ak leaves
from the forest. Its just little sur
prise for Susie Littletail.'
"Oh, a surprised" exclaimed Nurse
Jane, and she would have asked more
questions, only just then, she smelled
something burning in the bungalow
oven.
"Oh. my potato. pies." she cried, and
she ran to take them out before they
should burn too black. So the musk
rat lady forgot ill about what it was
that Uncle Wiggily had brought home
from the woods with him, and he laid
his bundle down on a bench on the
porch.
Did you save the potato pies?'
asked Mr.. Longears, when Nurse Jane
came back from the kitchen, her
whiskers rather red from the heat.
| "Oh, yes They're all right. Did
you have an adventure today, Mr..
NO" answered Uncle Wiggily, II
am sorry to say I did not. But I'll
take another trip to the woods tomor-
row, and then 1 may hive better
| luck -
1t was a nice warm spring day, and
| it seemed as tho summer were well
on it's way to Woodland, where Uncle
| Wiggily and his animal friends nv>d.
The bunny rabbit sat down on the
porch, looked at the bundle wrapped
in dried leaves. which he had brought
from the woods, and blinked both his
eyes: Then he said to himself:
| Susie will be quite surprised with
these, I'm sure. And, if she likes
them, I'll get some more tomorrow
for the other little animal girls"
Then, thinking how pleased his lit
present, Uncle Wiggily went into the
hollow stump bungalow to eat some of
the potato pies for lunch.
| Toward evening, when Uncle Wig
sily came back to his bungalow from
having been over to play a game of
Goosey Gander, the sky became cloudy
and it looked SIS tho a spring snow
storm was coI-i-li,- And that night,
after supper, when the bunny rabbit
went to bed, he looked out of the
window. and, surely enough, few
white flakes were sitting down, as
Mother Goose Sits down the feathers
she picks from her geese.
All of sudden. in the midd of the
night. Uncle Wigg:iy awakened and
called out loud:
.'Oh, the poor PUSHES
What poor pussies?" asked Nurse
Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, who had gotten up
and put on her bathrobe and slippers
to shut her Window as the snow was
drifting in.
The poor pussies 1 brought home
as surprise for Susie Eittletail," an
swered Uncle Wiggiiy. Il left them
out on the porch. Now it is I'D md
showing, tho / cid not think It would
do that, and the poor pussies will
| freeze.
| "Oh, how careless like of youi"
cried Nurse Jane "And you never
! told me a word of what you had in
that bundle of leaves. Poor pussies,
indeed. They should have had warm
milk at once, but you never told mel
| Quick, go and bring them in, and I'll
| make them hot catnip-kitten tea at
| once. That Will stop them from get
| ting cold
| Uncle Wiggily did not wait to listen
| 70 what Nurse Jane said. Slipping on
| his bath robe, he hurried downstairs
and out on the bungalow porch.
| IT was dark there, and the wind
was blowing while the snowflakes
( were sitting about like cocoanut puff
ed off the top of a strawberry short
cake and for a few minutes Uncle
Wiggily could not find what he was
iooIinE for. As he felt about with his
| nays for the bench he could hear in
| side the bungalow Nurse Jane Fuzzy
| Wuzzy banging and rafting about
among the pots and pans on the
stove.
Il wonder what she's doing?
thought Uncle Wiggily- But. no mat