The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-27
Bedtime Stories
Uncle Wiggily and His Boots.
BY HOWARD r. GARIs

Uncle Wiggily and His Boots.
will you be around here all day,
Uncle Wiggily?" asked Nurse Jane
Fuzzy Wuzzy. the muskrat lady house
keeper, as she came out of the hol-
low 81 Jump bungalow one morning, and
looked over toward the tent where the
rabbit gentleman was on soldier guard
duty.
swered, joking like. What is it you
want me to do %
Nothing, exect just stay here" she
answered. q didn't want to go away
and leave the bungalow all alone"
7 We'll, I'll be around all day." Uncle
Wiggily said. II have to stay pretty
close to my tent since the enemy mos
quitoes are getting so bold. The
bungalow will be all right if you leave
it. But where are you going?"
Down to the three and four cent
store" said Nurse Jane. u have some
shopping to do and l have left cold
rice pudding, with carrot sauce
sprinkled over the top, in the icebox
for your lunch
VERY good said Uncle Wiggily,
wagging his ears, for he liked rice
| pudding very much indeed.
So Nurse Jane went to the three and
four cent store, while Uncle Wiggily
marched up and down in front of his
tent on guard, his talcum powder
, gun, which shot bean bag bullets,
Z
might see.
And now, as 1 know you are won
dering what Nurse Jane wanted to
buy at the store, I'll tell you. 1t was
a pair of boots for Uncle Wiggily. Miss
Fuzzy Wuzzy had seen a big bear SOL
der with boots on, and she had said
to herself:
! why can't Uncle Wiggily have
pair like them to keep his feet warm
at night? He shall have them-Ill
| get him pair!''
New. you know what Nurse Jane
| was going to get at the three and four
| cent store. 1t did not take the musk
! rat lady long to buy the boots for
Uncle Wiggily, but she spent all the
! rest of the day getting a piece OF lace
| with holes in it like a Swiss cheese. 81,
she did not get home until supper
! time.
| Here are. your boots. Uncle Wig
gily," said the muskrat lady house
keeper. II hope you will like them
i ''Of course, 1 shalt" cried the bun
ny uncle, twinkling his pink nose in
| delight. He tried them on They fit
J ted him just right, and SO loosely that
/ he could jump in and out of them
very quickly, just as a fireman can
| do obefore he slides down the brass
| pole to get ride on the hose wagon.
i "Ill wear the new boots tonight
| ditch said Uncle Wiggily. mo mos
! quitoes can bite thru them
| So, after supper, the bunny uncle,
| putting on his new boots, began to
! march up and down in the trench
/ which was something like a tunnel
dug in front of his tent, only it had
i no top on it.
Now about this time the mosquitoes
were trying to think of another way
! to catch Uncle Wiggi1y. They had no;
gotten his gun away from him, tho
! they tried, as 1 told you in the story
! last night.
But I<have another PLAN" SAID a
bad mosquito who had very funny
eyes that made you think of moving
| pictures. You know Uncle Wiggf1y
! caught lot of our friends last night
and stuck them fast in the sticky gum
from the pine tree
Yes; what of it?'' asked the other
: of the biting bugs
This" answered the queer-eyed
chap. I'VE can get some Of that same
sticky gum. spread it on the ground
/ in the bunny rabbits trench ditch and
when he walks in it his fee. will be
caught fast Then we can take his
gun away and fly with him to the
/ swamp"
Good" cried all the others. Wen
do it!''
So, as soon as it was dark they gath
cred sticky-icky gum from the pine
/ tree, putting it on leaves not to
1 clutter up their legs and bills, and
this gum, like the stuff on fly paper,
| the mosquitoes spread in Uncle Wig
gily's trench while he was in his tent
| eating supper.
wen have him when he comes
| out" buzzed the mosquitoes
Pretty soon, with his pop gun, out
came the rabbit gentlemen He had
| on the new boots Nurse Jane had
bought for him, and very proud he
| was of them-not too proud,-you un-
derstand. but just proud enough
II should like to see a mosquito get
me nowl" cried the bunny uncle. as
! he marched along very stiff and
straight. like a rocking horse on par
| ade.