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

Uncle Wlgp1ly and the Big Haln'
Copyright. 1917. by Mcclure Newspaper
Syndlcate.)
-HERE was a big rain In Woodland
where Uncle Wiggily Longears. the
rabbit gentleman, lived In a hollow
stump bungalow with Nurse Fuzzy
.Wuzzy. his muskrat lady housekeeper.
1t had stormed for n week.
And It doesn't seem to ever want TO
stop" spoke the bunny uncle as he stood
out the window. with his pink,
twlnkling nose pressed against the glass.
Have we enough to eat. Nurse jane
Yes. for n little while longer. But in
another day or 40 well need bread and
sugar. ] don't zee how | am to get out.
though. to go to the store after them
Make our mind easy about that.
dear Mlss Fuzzy Wuzzy." spoke the
bunny Uncle. I'm go" ,
But In this big rain you can't" said
Nurse Jane, You'd get soaking wet -
Not In my rsincoat. witt my rub
Der boots on and an umbrella to keep
dry my tall silk hat" said Uncle Wiggily
SO two days after that, when IL was
still raining hard, and there was no more
bread or sugar left In the hollow stump
bungalow, Uncle Wiggily. taking his pink,
%twinkling nose away from the window,
said:
Wei, I'll go to the store, rain or no
rain"
Away he started in his coat. rubber
boots and umbrella, but until he got out
side the bungalow he had no idea how
hard II was raining, The big drops just
pelted down. splnshing even through the
umbrella. Rut that was not the worst.
All over Woodland were big puddles OF
water. and after Uncle Wiggily had
stepped In two or three OF them. going
In over the tops Of his boots, he said:
This win never do | need y boat.
I" have TO get a boat TO 60 to the
store
Back he wadcd to his bungalow. soak
Ing wet, and while Nurse Jane was dry
ing him out by the fire he said:
"Hsve we q boat anywhere around the
bungalow. Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy?"
Indeed we have not" she said. "You
have nm automobile and an alrshlp. hut
no boat"
Neither an airship nor an nutomobIl,
Ia of much use IN n flood ana ra'n
said the bunny. Il need a boat, and
guess III have to make one"
Can YOU" asked Nurse Jane.
Indeed | can" answered Uncle Wig
gily
How" asked the mustrat lady.
"Out Of paper" replied tho bunny gen.
tleman. when ! was n boy rabbit II
school | learned TO make paper boats
ri make an extra large and strong on
now, ont OF brown paper, and In tina
| | II no 70 INV SNNIFt
So Uncle Wiggilv, getting n big shee
OF heavy brown paper, made the boa,
first folding the paper into n soldlc
hat as YOU ALWAYS do when you're turn
ing out one Of these canoes In n littl
while the boa was finished. and In !
the rabbit gentleman started out one.
; more through the big rain TO go to III
store,
He used NurHe James wooden puddinI
, spoon for n paddle. | mean the spoo'
wns wooden. not the pudding.
But Uncle Wiggily had not gone yer
1, far before something happened Tn.
/, water OF the puddles began TO soaI
seeing That II WINS leaking, quickly pad
died back to tho bungalow
He reached the front steps only Just 4
I time, for his paper boat seemed 20 mel
like Ice cream on a hot day, and NIL cam
4 apart
gily. II can't go to the store In tina
7, kind OF y paper boat. n only ha
e some paper that water would not wet
, II have some Of the very kline sal
4 Nurse Jane.
IT'S the wRNed papcr that ONE
{ wrapped around bread to keen II fresh,
5 said the muskrat lady Water cannc
: 20 through waSed paper, and I hay
I saved n lot
4 Good cried Uncle Wiegtly So h
made another boat Of waved paner. nm
that did not sink In u no started II
tho store. and half way there Jimml
I Wihhlcwohhle. the boy duck, who don
lmInd rain or floods. met the rabbit gen
ltlcman, and pulled the waved paper boa
/. 10 the store and back pHnin for him
u So Uncle Wlggily got the bread, suga
pnd other things TO ent. and the nos
day tho big rain stopped But thl
, shows vou how learning TO make pnpc
boats r. sometimes y good thing,
And II the honevsuckle vine docsn
y forget Ia swectrn my coffee IN the morn
ing when n climhs NJ 10 play tag wit
the rambler rose, III t"ll YOU newt nhou
It'nclN Miggilv md tle dnndoliOns.