The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-25
Bedtime Stories
Uncle wiggily and Jumpo's Pie.
BY HOWARD 4. GARIs

|
in his automobile, wondering what
sort of an adventure he would have,
so he could go home to his hollow
stump bungalow and tell Nurse Jane
4 Fuzzy WuzZy about it-Once upon a
time the rabbit gentleman heard.
| from behind big tree, a voice calling:
| Help. Help! Help!"
"Oh, my goodness me sakes alive
and a peanut lollypop!' whistled I'm
Gle Wiggily thru his pink, twinkling
nose. Here's an adventure almost
/ before I'm ready for it, and he
stopped his automobile so quickly
that he turned a somersault over the
turnip steering wheel and out he
/ popped like a cork from a bottle of
| ice cream soda
! But Uncle Wiggily wasn't hurt a bit
for he fell on one of the soft bologna
sausage tires of his auto, and bounced
who is it wants help, and what's
the natter"
| "Oh, lots is the matter" answered
voice, and from behind the tree came
Jumpo Kinkytan, the little monkey
boy. On the ground in front of him
/ was large fiat pasteboard box,
about as big as those in which ladies'
green. fluffy silk dresses come from
the five and ten cent store.
What have you there, Jumpo?"
asked the rabbit gentleman, land why
do you call for help? Are you caught
in a trap, or has the skillery-scalery
alligator. with humps on his tail, tried
! to play a joke on you?'
/ Neither one, Uncle Wiggily,r said
the monkey boy with a low and polite
| bow. But this pie is so large l can't
carry it home without breaking it, and
| you know yourself that broken PIE
! isn't at all nice"
TT certainly isn't" agreed Uncle
| Wiggily. But what about this pie =?
, 1t is a very large one. Where did
you get it and who made it?
"Beckie Stubtail, the little bear girl,
made it," answered JUMBO. It's a
very fine pie with raisins on the top,
and inside
"Oh, please don't tell me any more
about it, begged Uncle Wiggily, hold
ing his paw over his mouth. What
you have already said makes me so
hungry for that pie-well, might just
have to open the box and take bite if
you told me any more. So, don't say
a word. But tell me where the pie be-
| longs and why you called for help
Il called for help because l could
no longer carry the pie" answered
JUMBO. 1T is going to the hollow
stump school. At least the lady mouse
! teacher asked Beckie to make the pie
ana bring II to school. But Beckie
made the pie so big that she couldn't
carry it. So l said 1 would, but the
pie is heavier than L thought, and
Now, don't say another world"
cried Uncle Wiggily, in his most jolly
voice Il see how it is I'll take the
pie in my automobile, and you also.
and we'll go to the hollow stump
school But where is Beckie, and why
did she make such large pie for the
lady mouse teacher"
"Oh, Beckie has gone on ahead,
said JUMBO. And the reason she
made such a large pie is because she
wanted to win the prize You see the
lady mouse teacher said she would
give a prize to the girl animal in the
housekeeping class who made the
largest and incest pie. and this one
with raisins on the top and inside
please s.opl" cried Uncle Wiggily,
| raising his paw. Il asked you not to
tell me how good the pie was, lest
forget myself and take bite. Hop in,
Jumpo."
So after Jumpo, the monkey boy,
had helped Uncle Wiggily lift Beclie's
big pie into the auto the rabbit gentle
man and JUMBO got in themselves and
rode off.
"Oh, look out! There's a big
| bump cried Jumpo, as they went
over stone. The pie is slipping"
Hold it FAST" cried Uncle Wiggily,
as he sloyed down the auto, and
JUMBO held the pie as best he could.
They went along a little farther and
they came to a hole in the road.
'Oh, look out that the pie doesn't
fall off here!' cried Jumpo, and Uncle
Wiggily and the monkey boy had all
they could do to hold the pie in it's
box on the seat. But they did it and
soon they were near the hollow stump
school
And there We'll take out Beckie's
pie said Jumpo, sort of smacking
his lips
Then. all of a sudden. as they came
within sight of the school, and saw
many of the boy and girl animals
ready to go in to their lessons, sud-
denly Susie Littletail the rabbit girl
"Ouchi oh, dear! Right on the
end of my nose, OUCH"
What is 70" cried Uncle Wiggily,
leaping from his auto.
ooh. a great big bee flew out from
his nest in the belfry and stung me on
the end of my nose." cried Susie.
! "Ouch!"
"Oh, get some mud and hold on it,''
squeaked the lady mouse teacher.
Mud is good for bee stings!''
BIZ there isn't a bit of mud around
here" said Uncle Wiggily.
"Oh, yes there is-lots of it, said
Beckie Stubtail. the little bear girl.
''Where?" asked the bunny rabbit.
I'm my pie answered Beckie.
| Your pie?" gasped Uncle Wiggily.
Yes" went on Beckie. 'Didn't
Jumpo tell you? 1 made a mud pie
| so ! could have it as large as
pleased" and when she opened the
box. there, surely enough, was a great
mud pie.
And to think I took all that care of
mud pie" laughed the bunny uncle.
ct thought it was a cherry one. But
never mind. Come here, Susie, and I'll
put some pie mud your bee sting"
And he did and the sting was all
better.
II didn't mean to fool you, Uncle
| Wiggily,' said Jumpo. II knew it
was mud pie, and the raisins on top
were only make-believe ones of stone
but when tried to tell you
| Il KNOW laughed the bunny again.
1T was allxmy fault. But a mud pie
is good for something after ALL
| And so it was. And if the string of
| green beads don't get loose and roll