The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-01-08

.NNSTnE,: upon ,,,., a Hns, as Inclo wig
~ man, wns hopping nlohg through
inc woods on his red, white and
ulu' striped rheumatism Crutch. and
wondering n he would have an ndven-
Il big tree. voice saying.
ON, dear l wish | hadn't como here:
l might better have stayed in the book
Whete belong! II is so cold here. and
mere " no water hut what Is frozen
over Iye had nothing but trouble since
.Ha' Trouble This is where | come
m said the bunny uncle TO himself IN
help"
He walked around the other side of
tho tree, and there he saw n auoork
dressed man with bundle tied 10 y
| SUCK over his shoulder. The man had
on pair OF high boots and scattered all
| over MS clothes were bits ot sea- shells
Hello exclaimed Uncle wiggily. Jol-
E-hkc u heard you speak about trou,
BILE May | not ask who you are and
what II the mntter2"
am ne fisherman from the Arabian
| Nights hook. was tho answer ''You
may have read about me | live ir q
tat OF country and I always made il a
rule never 10 cast my fish nets moro than
pens IVY
Well ono day, nf,cr I had caueh,
nothing when | had cast tho nets i'm
three times, NJ tho fourth Try
brought M hig copper hottie opened
| " ana lot of smoke came out Tho
smoke turned into a genie. or fairy as
sop had s'S 'ons =" 'o9t country but he was
what did hc DO" asked Uncle Wig.
gily, MI excited like
WIll nitoT he turned into himself.
/
fisherman, he said he was going 10
| throw me into the ocean Tor having let
him out ~ the hottie wherc he had been
80 long shut in"
Mess ny pink nose" cried the bunny
/ uncle. why did he want 10 do thetsh
"oh. Jus, because he WA. a bad @ ,u" ssr,.
| guess, said the fisherman "ue told
/ me that he had been turned into smoks
and shut up In the hottie hccnuse Le
! didnt do what was right. aud he said
he mado up his mind. flrs, along. that
! whoever pulled up the bottle from the
| bottom NJ the sco nnd opened n he would
| make him tho richest man In the world
Hut rs time went on and nobody lct
| MN out tho gcnic grew more and more
! angry and finally he said that no WOULD
| thlpw into the ocean whoever let him
| out. lln was going to throw mo in but
| ! played n trick on him | prrtpnd.I
| could not believe that such hlg
| genie ms he could over have been In the
| little bottle. Su he turned into amoke
again and went back into the bottle ms,
| To show me
And what did YOU do" asked rrc,.
"Oh, ho' | chppcd tho cork IN IA.
bottle again as quick ns n wink nrd
there | had tho genie. for no couldn,
push out the cork. though he could do
almost everything Rise" tho fisherman
aald
Then he begged mo TO he Kind ana
let him out, and when he promised ia
be good to mo and give mo lots of
money I took out the cork on, nour.J
tho smoke, which changed into n seni.
And he was good aud made me rich A
rich that I started To travel Mi over
the world slndbad the Sailor told mo
20 come here, but now I'm here / don,
like H. can't lind any water vhs,s
I can cast my nets and fish +"
No, this II winter now said t'nr,.
wlssily, and nll the water ls frozen
over Hut, N YOU like, IN lend Won INV
aitship and YOU can w back homo "
"Oh, think YOU, that will he rn.'"
cried tho fisherman. IN 20 h,rk "a
my own country and come hcre when n
is summer again
| so Uncle Wigril, brought out his ,,r.
ship, made from clothes basket