The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-22
Bedtime Stories
Uncle wiggily and Jollie's Cheese.
BY HOWARD r. GARIs


well, 1 think I'll go for little
walk" said Uncle Wiggily Longears,
the rabbit gentleman, to Nurse Jane
Fuzzy Wuzzy, his muskrat lady house
keeper, one morning as he hoped
away from his hollow stump bunga-
low.
viii you be away long?" she ask
ed.
NO longer than it takes to find an
adventure Uncle Wiggily made an
swer, But, as that sometimes takes
a long while, if any one calls to see
me they had better not wait. 1 may
be away all day
well, good luck to you" Nurse
Jane wished the bunny uncle, and
then he went along, hurry!ng over the
fields ard through the woods, twink
ling his pink nose first one way then
the other, looking for an adventure.
Uncle Wiggily had not gone very far
before, all of a sudden, he heard a
voice calling to him:
oh, no, Mr.. Longears. Whoo-oo,
Uncle Wiggily. over this way, if you
please! Come here"
The labbit gentleman stopped and
looked all about him. He could see
nothing, and, for all he knew, it
might be the nose-pinching baboon
or the scratchy- atchy cat trying to
call him to a den where they could
poster him.
But, then, I need have no fear
of that said Uncle Wiggily to him
self, for all those used-to- pad
be some friend of mine; but who?"
Then he heard the voice again:
please come here, Uncle Wiggily."
But who are you and where are
you ~ asked the bunny uncle, still
looking around, but seeing no one.
I'm Mrs. Longtan, the mouse
lady" was the answer, and my little
boy, Jollie, is sick He wants very
much to see you
why, of course, I'll hop right over
thtre,' said jolly Uncle Wiggily. mo
wonder couldn't see you, for you are
in your house, and the house of
mouse is always very hard to see.''
You know how it is yourself, chill
dren, If you have ever tried to find
the house of a mouse ONLY kittie
cats can find them, and then not al
ways
Whats the matter with Jollie ?"
asked Uncle Wiggily when he had
hopped to the home of Mrs. Long
den under some grass and leaves in
the green meadow
"Oh, Dr. Possum says it's just spring
teVer But Jollie is very cross and
fretful went on Mr.. Longtail, and
she said this outside the house so the
mouse boy would not hear her. Il wish
you could amuse him. she went on
But he has taken a notion he wants
some cheese and 1 haven't a bit in
the house"
'oh, well, I'll go get him some, af-
ter I talk to him and try to cheer him
up Bit said Uncle Wiggily.
How glad 1 am to see youi" cried
Jollie, when the bunny uncle peeked
in the door of the room in the house
where the little mouse boy was in
cheese %
Wouldn't popcornball lollypop do
as well?" asked Uncle Wiggily. twink
ling his pink nose SO that it looked like
an apple on top of a Christmas tree.
I'D rather have cheese" said Jollie
and after Uncle Wiggily had sung a
funny little song for the mousie boy
the rabbit gentleman started out to
find some cheese.
new whether the mice people of
Woodland had had a party the night
before, and had eaten all the cheese, or
whether the COW with the crumpled
horn had taken the cheese to make the
moon green with I don't know. But 1
do know that not bit of cheese could
Uncle Wiggily find.
| On and on hoped the rabbit gentle
man, over the fields and thru the
woods, asking at every one and two
cent stores he came to, and at othe~
places also. for a bit of cheese for the
sick mousie boy.
But there was TO cheese to be had,
and at last Uncle Wiggily, tired and
sad. came to little house that stood
all by itself in the middle of a big
wood. Over the door of the house was
a sign which read:
FAIRY WITCH.
ooh, if there's fairy witch in that
house surely she can give me some
cheese for Jollie'' thought the bunny.
So he hoped up, knocked on the door
and when the fairy which answered.
Mr. Longears asked for cheese.
sfI'T11 sorry but I haven't a hit in
the house. said the dear little. dried
up old lady who was the fairy witch.
But 1 can give you some sour milk"
why that's no good" cried Uncle
Wiggily. II mean-excuse me-thank
YOU" he said, thinking how impolite
he was. But Jollie wants cheese, not
sour milk
Well said the fairy witch with a
smile, you put this sour milk in a
pail, and hop with it, as fast as you
can hop, to Jollie's house. And the
next time you're passing this way stop
and tell me what happened"
Uncle Wiggily twinkled his pink
nose, and then, seeing a funny look
on the face of the fairy witch, he took
the pail of sour milk and quickly
hoped tic the mouse house with it.
And when he got there-no, the cup
board wasn't bare. but the sour milk
had turned into cheese, just as the
witch fairy had known, all the while,
it would do For cheese is made from
sour milk, you know
So Jollie, the mouse boy, had his
cheese, after all, you see, and soon he
was better of the spring fever. And
the fairy witch laughed when Uncle
Wiggily told her how the sour milk
had been changed as he hoped with
it
So this teaches us that you never
can tell what is going to happen in
this world and If the kitchen stove
doesn't go in the parlor and try to
play the piano when it's learning a
new dance, I'll tell you next about
Uncle Wiggily and Jollfes crackers
Copyright. 1917. by Mcclure News
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