The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-04-12
UNCLE WtGeiLYANp NED,s JOKE.

UNCLE WiGeiLYANp NED,s JOKE
You want to look out for yourself
tomorrdWss Uncle Wiggily,n' said Nurse
Jane FuzzyW uzzy. the lmuskrat lady
Observation-Disclosures gave he bunny
rabbit his breakfast in his hollow
stump bungalow, just before he was
about to start out for his daily adyen-
ture.
'Look out for myself-why?" Uncle
Wiggily wanted to know. rs anything
special going to happen? n
You never can tell,' answered Nurse
Jane. You know tomorrow is the first
OF April. and
"oh, now / understand I" cried the
bunny gentleman. Some one may play
tricks or jokes OF me"
watch OUT
I'll watch out" promised Uncle Wig
gily, and away he hoped through the
woods, looking for an adventure. But I
am sorry to say, he had none worth
writing about. True, he found some
little violets just peeping up in the
green moss, and he took them to Aunt
Lettie, the nice old lady goat who had
to have one Of her horns pulled out. But
that was hardly an adventure.
And about this same time Neddie
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and Peetie Bow Wow, the two puppy
dog boys, were whispering together be-
hind the cave where lived Mr.. White
wash, the polar bear
na sWon't it be a good joke'" said
1T sur will" said Jackie. Hell be
! SO surprised"
Wei have to dc it when Nurse Jane
isn't home" said Peetie, for il she
knew she'd be sure to tell him and that
would spoil you joke, Neddie."
That SO. Well, Nurse Jane is com
ing over to our house today to help my
mother sew a bed quilt, SO no one will
be at the hollow stump Bungalow. We
a crawl in the window, spread our
| selves out on the floor, and when Uncle
Wiggily cores in he'll think we're
black fur rugs that Nurse Jane has
bought as a surprise for him. and he'll
be SO astonished he'll jump e his
! ears
"Oh, such fun as it will bel" barked
Jackie. you sure did think up a
dandy joke. Neddie.'
Yes, / guess I did" spoke the little
bear boy, but he was not at all proud.
"Of course he said, lit won't be April
FOOLS day until tomorrow, but that
will be all right"
"Sure!" agreed Jackie n Peetie,
and then the two little puppy dog boys
and bear chap, set off for Uncle Wig
gily's bungalow to play an April fool
/ JOke on MIN. VI H
This was what it was to be: Neddie
thought that if he and the two dogs
were to go in, stretch out fiat on the
parlor floor, when Uncle Wiggily came
j.. he would take them for new fur rugs
such as you sometimes see in the nov
ing pictures-you know, almost like
real animals on the floor.
III only hope he doesn't step on u.s."
said Neddie.
"Oh, it won't matter much If he
does" said Jackie. Uncle Wiggily is
very light on his feet since he learned
to do the foxtrot.''
Soon the three animal boys were at
the hollow stump bungalow. Nurse
Jane was not at home and Uncle Wig
gily, as you know, was out looking for
and through this Neddie, Jackie and
Peetie easily crawled. Then, when
they were inside, they thought they
heard Uncle Wiggily coming, so with
out stopping for anything they gave
each one a jump into the parlor and
"Funn the floor hasn't rugs on il
at ALL said Neddje. as he fiattened
himself out. You'd think they were
expecting US"
But, oh! what a good joke it is, Ned
die! Pm spre-'
Hush! = Here he comes!" whispered
Peetie.
They could hear the tap. tap, tapping
of Uncle Wiggily's red, white and blue
striped rheumatism crutch on the front
steps. Soon the old rabbit gentleman
looked in the half-lighted parlor where
the two puppy logs and the bear boy
had stretched themselves out as fiat as
they could.
ooh, Nurse Jane has been buyins
some new rugs" said the rabbit gen.
tlenan. "She wanted to surprise me-
TIA! This is where we surprise
hina!" whispered Neddie to his friends
Jump UP now, and bark while growl!'
Oh, what a joke!!"
Neddie tried to get up. So did Jackie
So did Poetic. But they could not. They
were stuck fast to the floor! Thinl
of that!
What's the matter?" cried Jackie
pulling and pulling.
"Oh, my goodness cried Uncle Wig,
gily, as he put on his glasses. 1T:
my friend Neddie Stubtail m Peeti,
and Jackie Bow Wow, and they are al
stuck fast on the newly vanished par.
sticky varnish. That is too bad. VIII.
did you come in here, little ANNA
boys2 Didn't you see the sign Paint
on he oor?"
"No-we-we didn't" safd Neddie
still stuck fast in the sticky varnish
W. were going to play an April foo
joke on you-pretending we We're rugs
but"
But now the joke is on you." laughe'
|. Uncle Wiggily. But, never mind. TIL,
!. painter man left some t~urpentine, afte
he finished vanishing the floor, SO II
soon melt you ~loisse," and the bum.
uncle did, for turpentine softens
!. nish.
The fur of Neddie, Jackie and Peeti
was quite sticky, even after they wer
loosed from the newly vanished floor
; but it wore off after a few days. An
they said they would not play an.
more April jokes. But if the ANNA
crackers don't jump through the coffe
1 strainer and make the egg beater si