The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03
Bedtime Stories
BY HOWARD r. GARIs

Uncle WiggiIy and Humpty Durnpty.
| Excuse me- spoke a gentle voice
| behind Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the
muskrat lady housekeeper, who was
cleaning the steps of the hollow stump
bungalow one morning Excuse me,
! but can Uncle WiggiIy be out to
play?"
BE out to play?" repeated Nurse
Jane. do you mean play with your
and the muskrat lady turned to see a
little girl, with flaxen hair. standing
at the foot of the steps
! Yes, play with me, if you please"
said the little girl. I'm Alice from
Wonderland. you know. and Uncle
Wiggily and 1 had such a jolly time
! yesterday, when the Unicorn tickled
/ the alligator and made him laugh,
| that I'd like to go off with him again"
With whom-the alligator" asked
Nurse Jane.
NO, with Uncle Wiggily," laughed
Alice. Where is hep"
| Here am, Alice. I've just finish
ed breakfast" answered the bunny
| rabbit gentleman himself, as he came
out on the front bungalow steps. Are
you ready for another auto ride?"
Indeed l am. thank you. And
tomorrow is holiday I don't have
That's funny said Uncle Wiggily,
twinkling his pink nose, What holt
DAY Is IT.
Alice. Have you forgotten? Even
tho 1 am an English girl 1 know what
it means Your boys and girls shoot
off lollypops, bang ice cream cones
and light red. white and blue candy"
| candy! l guess you mean can
dles!" laughed Uncle wiggiIy. How
ever, you're right. 1t is the Fourth of
July tomorrow. and whereas, years
ago, we used to shoot off firecrackers
now we have a nicer holiday. We go
OFF in the woods and gather flowers.
Why, do you known cried the bunny
uncle, there are flowers just right
FOR Fourth of July. There are puff
balls that are as good as torpedoes,
and snap-dragons that open their
mouths and make believe bite YOU.
ana there are dogwood flowers that
PARK, and red sumach which is just
the color of firecrackers."
Then let's go off in the woods and
nave Fourth of July there" proposed
Alice, and soon she and the bunny
uncle We're in the automobile. And
Littletail, the rabbit children, and
johnnie and Billie Bushytail, the
| squirrels, and Jackie and Peetie Bow
wow. the puppy dogs.
oh; Uncle Wiggily!' cried these
you for Fourth of JULY
or course 1 shall,' promised the
bunny gentleman, so they all got in
the automobile with him and Wonder
iand Alice, and away they went.
They had not gone very far before
all OF a sudden, they came to a stone
wall, and when Alice saw something
on top of it she cried:
why, there's my old frield Humpty
Dumpty. I must stop and speak to
him or he'll think I'm proud" and
, she waved her hands
: why, that-that's nothing but an
-egg" said Sammie. ITS like the
ones 1 colored for Easter when the
: IskilHgimink dye splased all over me.
That isn't Humpty Dumpty at ALT s
Ian egg!'
'Hush!' whispered Susie. "Humpty
Dumpty is an egg, of course, but he
doesn't like to be told of it, Don't
you know the little verse:
" 'Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall,
, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the kings horses and all the kings
Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together
again."
That's right said Alice from
y Wonderland. only don't speak of the
fall before Humpty. He doesn't like
y to be reminded of it,
II don't see why spoke Jackie
l Bow Wow. He can't hear word
e we say. He's only an egg-he hasn't
4 He really isn't dressed yet" said
e Alice ITS a bit early. But I'll soon
S make him look more human"
With that she jumped out of the
a lauto, and, taking two ears of corn
e from a field nearby, she fastened them
e with silk from the cob, one on each
side of the egg.
Now we can hear said Alice
y Then with tulip flowers she made
:; Humpty a mouth and from a potato
q she took two eyes, so the egg police
l, man could see. A comb made hin
! as nice teeth as one could wish Tor
l. and they never ached, and Tor nost
S she took out a cute little bottle Of
r IT think that's a queer nose" sale
n Johnnie Bushytail.
# well, a bottle of perfumery smells
g doesn't it?" asked Alice. e AND that
indeed it isl" cried Humpt!
= Dumpty in his jolly voice. speaking
e thru the tulips. I'm all made now
g I only hope And then he suddenl!
y turned pale, for he nearly fell Off tn
h wall HAS any one any POWDER" III
e asked. Il think I'd like to clean m!
s. teeth"
l, Il have some talcum," spoke Lulu
/ Wibblewobble, the duck girl, coming
II along just then.
e Dumpty TT will be just fine" Anc
# with brush made from the end of ;
3 soft fern he began to clean his teeti
o with the talcum powder which Lulu
e gave him.
= And then, all of a sudden, there wa
u a loud noise, a puff of smoke, ant
Humpty Dumpty, the egg man. wa
- seen sailing off thru the air like
% big white balloon.
ie well, this is better than falling
a off the WALTZ he cried in a faint voice
"Oh, my, What happened?" aske'
% Sammie Littletail trying to make hi
pink nose twinkle as Uncle Wigg1l
% did his.
n "Humpty Dumpty was blown up in
- stead of falling down." said Alice. g
- guess your talcum powder was to-