The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-16
Bedtime Stories
Uncle WiCgiIy and the Hot sun.
BY HOWARD r. GARIs


an adventure he would have, when all
at once he began to notice that it was
very warm.
My, how hot the sun ISL said Mr..
Longears to himself. Tho it is only
May it feels like August. 1 must get
out my thin fur coat
Then he hoped on more slowly,
looking here and there for an adven-
ture, until. at last, the sun became SO
very warm that the bunny uncle had
to sit down under a tree, on green,
messy log to rest.
Il never knew it to be so warm at
this time of the year. he said. Some
mace fire in the sun, thinking we were
going to be cold. Why, it is even al
most too warm to look for an adven-
ture! 1 guess 1 will not find any to-
day"
But, hardly had he said that than.
all of a sudden, he heard a little voice
near him saying;
.'Oh, dear. What a lot of trouble
I'm in! 1 wish some one would help
met
''Ha. I'll help you, if you will tell
me who you are, and what is the mat
ter" said Uncle Wiggily politely.
We'll, 1 am a toad lady" was the
answer, land L am sitting right behind
you. Excuse me for not coming
around in front of you to talk, but 1
have caught one of my legs in a tight
crack in the log, and 1 can't move.
That is the trouble
tOh, that is too bad!" exclaimed
Uncle Wiggily. I'm help you get
loosei''
Then, with his red. white and blue
striped rheumatism crutch, which
Nurse Jane had gnawed for him out
of a cornstalk. he pried open the crack
in the log and the toad lady could hop
along to the store, where she was go
ing when the accident happened TO
her.
THANK you very much, for setting
NE free, Uncle Wiggily,' she said. ut
was great favor, and if ever 1 can
do you one / will"
Pray do-not mention it," responded
Uncle Wiggily, modest like, and shy
But don't you find the sun very hot
today, Mrs. Hip-Hop?" for that was
the toad lady's name.
ooh, 1 like it hot she said. Be
sides, if it gets too warm l can easily
pick toad-stool and use it for an UNI
brella or parasol.'
Eyes, they are all right for you, but
they are not large enough for me-,
Uncle Wiggily said. However, I'll put
on a thinner fur coat and then I'll
be all right
Soon he hoped on and the toad
lady hoped on. but AN the while the
sun kept shining down hotter and
hotter, until at last the rabbit gem
tleman took off his tall silk hat.
Aren't you afraid of getting sun
struck? ?" asked a little butterfly girl
who was flittering TO the store to get
drop of honey for her fathers dim
ner
"Oh, no." answered the bunny .un-
Gle. Il always go bareheaded in sum-
mer. 1t makes my hair grow
But soon it grew too hot for Uncle
Wiggily to hop along any farther thru
the woods and over the fields looking
for an adventure. ---fa t~L H-.I -
Il think I'll go back to my hollow
stump bungalow" said Mr.. Longears,
and eat some cold cherry pie. That
ought to make me feel better"
But when he reached his bungalow
he found it just as warm there from
the hot sun. Nurse Jane Fuzzy wuz-
", the muskrat lady housekeeper, was
sitting out in the side yard, tanning
herself with burdock weed leaf tied
to her tail.
"Oh, this is very hot" she said.
Very" agreed Uncle Wiggily.
And the rabbit gentleman sort of
sank down on the steps, and his pink
nose hardly twinkled at all, while his
whiskers grew very pale, and Nurse
Jane. seeing him, cried:
why, Wiggy, how i'll you lookl
Has anything happened?"
Il guess l was out in the hot
sun too much without my hat on
he said. 1T was stronger than L
thought
And now you are sunstruckl" cried
the muskrat lady oh that is too
badi l must send for Dr. Postum a
oncei"
DR.. Postum said Uncle wiggily was
touched little by the sun, and told
Nurse Jane that the bunny must BE-
kept cool
Put him to bed in a shady room
and keep rags wet in cold water on his
head" said DIR. Postum.
But the sun shone so hot on the hol-
low stump bungalow that no room was
very cool. The sun seemed to come
in every window. and there was not a
cloud in the sky to make it partly
dark
"Oh. for some cool shade like the
woods!" sighed Uncle Wiggily. And
just then it seemed as if the sun sud
denly grew cooler. 1t did not shine
down so glarily and a misty shadow
seemed to cover the hollow stump
bungalow.
'Oh. it is clouding up" said Nurse
Jane. But when she looked ont a
little way she still saw sunshine. Rut
the bungalow was in the cool shadows
ana tnen the surprised muskrat lady
saw what caused it.
over the roof were held about fortv-
leven-sixteen-twenty toadstoois
making big umbrella, that kept OFF
all the sun so Uncle Wiggily would be
In the shade and keep cool. And hold
ing the toadstools over the buneaIow
were a lot of toads, among them being
Mrs. Hip-Hop.
Uncle Wiggily did me such a favor.
getting me out of the log crack" this
toad lady said, that 1 want to help
him So my friends and 1 picked the
biggest toadstools we could find. and
by holding them together this wav. we
can cover the bungalow roof and keen
off the hot sun. Wen held them tbere
until Uncle Wiggily gets we'll
So they did, the toads NOT ,nindtn
the hot sun bit, and the toadstooIs
didn't either. And that niEht Ifncis
Wiggily cooled off and was ali bett.r
So this teaches us that even a toad
If the rocking horse doesn't run o 80
the rubber ball and make Il r..,..oI