The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-26
Bedtime Stories
Uncle Wiggily and the Bluejay.
BY HOWARD r. GARIs

Uncle Wiggily and the Bluejay.
well, WE'LL" exclaimed Uncle Wig
gily Longears, the rabbit gentleman,
as he stood on the front porch of his
hollow stump bungalow, reading let
ter which Dickie Chip-Chip, til spar
row boy postman. had just left. This
| is something new
| What is it 2" asked Nurse Jane
Fuzzy Wuzzy, the lady muskrtt house
keeper.
Here's an invitation from the lady
mouse teacher Cor me to come to the
hollow stump school Monday and
watch the animal children draw pic
lures on the blackboard. They do it
very nicely, she says"
"Shal you go?' asked Nurse Jane-
81 think 1 shall,'' answered Uncle
Wiggily. Il like pictures, moving
ones, or the kind they draw on black
| boards"
So Monday afternoon, which was
the time set in the letter sent to Uncle
Wiggily from the lady mouse teacher,
| the bunny uncle, with his tall silk hat,
and his red, white and blue striped
rheumatism crutch, went to the hol-
| low stump school.
! He was half way there, when, all of
a sudden, he heard a rather loud and
sharp voice calling:
| .Fish-hook! Fish-hookl Fish hook!"
| 'Ha! That can't be any of the ami
NAL boys going fishing, can it?' asked
Uncle Wiggily out loud. 1T is much
too early for that
Indeed it isl was the answer from
somewhere in a tree over the bunny
''And who are you?' asked Uncle
Wiggily.
81 am one of the early arrivals of
spring, and fish-hook is one of my
calls. My friends and 1 just came up
from down south. L was looking
about for something with which TO
build a nest, but my leg is caught in
| a tangle of string-kite cord 7 think
it is-and 1 can't get loose"
Uncle Wiggily politely. 'I'l1 soon
gnaw down that tree you are caught
in. 1t will fall gently on this bed of
moss, and then I'll bite loose the string
/ from your Leg
How kind of you," cried the blue
jay, whose feathers were most
| beautiful color.
So, with his strong teeth, just made
for gnawing down small trees of the
| kind the bird was in, the rabbit gentle
man soon cut down this one 1t fell
gently, the blue jay not being harmed
at all, and then Uncle Wiggily bit
thru the tangle of string and the early
spring bird was free.
Thank you kindly, Uncle Wiggily,"
said the jay. IF ever 1 can do you or
your friends a favor 1 shall be most
! happy"
Uncle Wiggily said not to mention it,
and away flew the jay to look for nest
building things, while the bunny
4 hoped on to the hollow stump school.
The lady mouse teacher and the an
| inal children were glad to see the
rabbit gentleman. clapping their paws
| or Tapping their wings, whichever
| L, Ia
mouse said:
<'Now we will begin to make the pic
ture. Susie Littletail. you may go to
the board and draw the Orange noun
tains.''
| SO, with a piece of yellow chalk in
her paw, the rabbit girl went to the
board and near the top drew some
wavy, sharp-pointed lines. Those were
| the mountains.
Jackie Bow Wow, you may draw
the tree" said the lady mouse, and the
little puppy dog boy, with some brown
chalk, made on the blackboard the
trunk and branches of a big tree.
| And, Mamie Wagtail, you may put
green leaves on the tree said the
| lady mouse.
The little goat girl did this using a
piece of green chalk in her front hoof.
Then Jillie Longtail, the little mouse
girl, made the green grass on the
ground with more green chalk, for she
could only reach to the bottom of the
blackboard. And then the lady mouse
teacher said:
Now, Jacko Kinkytail, our nice
little monkey boy, will draw some
blue flowers for the picture. And
make them nice as you can for
Uncle Wiggily, Jacko.'
But JACKIE never left his seat He
just sat still.
why, Jacko," cried the surprised
lady mouse teacher. Don't you want
to draw blue flowers in the picture
for Uncle Wiggily?"
'fYe-yes, II do said the mon
key boy. "Bu-but II lost my blue
chalk down a crack in the floor, and
I can't get it! Oh, dear!''
"Oh, dear! That is too bad." said
the teacher. "And there isn't anoth r
bit of blue chalk in the whole school,
What shall we do? The picture will
be spoiled without the blue flowers,"
And then a voice outside cried,
Fish hook Fish-hookl Fish
hook! IN give you some of my blue
feathers and you can dip them in
water and make the water blue and
then you can dip white chalk in the
blue water and color that blue, and
and in thru the window flew the blue
jay bird ."Uncle Wiggily had loosed
from the string.
"Oh, you kind Bird" cried the lady
mouse, happy like.
Uncle Wiggily was kind to me- so
I'll be kind to you," whistled the bird
pulling out a loose tail feather.
Then Uncle Wiggily made blue
chalk from the blue feather, the pic
ture was finished when JACKIE Kinky-
tail drew in the blue flowers and ev-
erybody was happy.
And if the ice man doesn't forget
to leave some lollypops for the rag
dolls moving picture party I'll tell
you next about Uncle Wiggily and the
PUSHES Copyright 1917, by Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate
Indian Farmers and Herdsmen.
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