The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-16
Bedtime Stories
Uncle wiggiIy and the Singing Mouse.
BY HOWARD r. GARIS

Uncle WiggiIy and the Singing Mouse.
Uncle WiggilS, you don't look as
tho you slept well last night said
Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the musk
rat lady housekeeper, as the rabbit
gentleman came down stairs to break
fast in his hollow stump bungalow one
morning. Did you have bad dreams? %
NO, not that l remember" an
swered Uncle Wiggily. ITO tell you
the truth, which 1 always try to do, 1
! slept hardly at all"
why, how was that" asked Nurse
Jane, as she poured out a cup of car
rot coffee, sweetened with maple SUI
gar. for the bunny.
well, 1 guess it must have been on
account of the singing" answered Mr..
Longear5.
Singing" cried Nurse Jane.
Yes, singing. 1 am as fond of mu-
sic as any one, Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy,
went on Uncle Wiggily, but 1 don't
like singing in this bungalow after 1
go to bed
"Wen,'' said Nurse Jane, somewhat
| indignant-like, please don't look at
me that way. I didn't sing"
Il thought it was YOU said Uncle
Wiggily. 'I know you are very fond
of humming tune, and when l heard
some one going 'Tum-tum-te-um-
tum. all night long I thought it was
you
No, indeed" said Nurse Jane 1T
must have been photograph next
door"
1T didn't sound like that spo
Uncle Wiggily. Anyhow, it kept me
awake
I'm sorry" said Nurse Jane. To
night I'll listen for it. and when 1
hear any one singing I'll tell them to
go away"
Uncle Wiggily took a long walk that
day. looking for an adventure, but he
could not find one, and he was so tired
when he reached his hollow stump
bungalow again that he went to bed
right after supper and fell asleep.
Now I'll stay up and see if I can
catch any one singing to awaken
| Uncle Wiggily," thought Nurse Jane.
So she sat up downstairs in the kitch-
en-, making up hcs mind she would not
close her eyes all night. But before
she knew it her eyes began to shut.
This will never do!'' thought Nurse
Jane. II must stay awake"
So she propped her eyes open with
tooth:,icks and listened for the sound
Ct singing. But she heard none I'D
when she opened her eyes again it was
morni. g. She had ia. m asleep with
out knowing it.
| And 1 didn't hear the singing after
| sll." size said to Cncle Wiggily at the
breakfast table.
mo, but 1 did," said the rabbit GER
| t1eman. TT awakened me about mid
night, and 1 haven't slept Since
Where was it?" asked Nurse Jane
| Right in my room, it seemed"
Uncle Wiggily answered.
Maybe it's the skillery-scalery alli-
gator. with the double-joint tail
playing a trick on you,' spoke the
muskrat lady housekeeper.
mo. he doesn't play tricks any more
| he is friend of mine" said the
bunny but 1 know how to catch
whoever it is playing that trick on
me-"
How" asked Nurse Jane.
I'll fool EN-" replied Mr.. Longears.
''I'll go to sleep in the daytime. and
| stay awake all night. Then I'll see
who it is that sings, and makes me
lose my slumber"
So that day Uncle Wiggily went to
bed after dinner, and slept until it was
time to eat supper Then he took a
little walk around his hollow stump
bungalow, and went up to his room,
/ but not to sleep. He did not have to
prop his eyes open with toothpicks to
keep them from shutting, either.
And along about midnight. which is
liz o'clock after dark, Uncle Wiggily,
who had gone to bed with his clothes
on, heard a singing sound in his room.
tum-tiddily-um." went the
song
Uncle Wiggily stuck one ear out
from under the covers, but, though he