The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-07
Bedtime Stories
Uncle wiggiIy and the Old Goose.
By HOWARD r. GARIs

Uncle WiSg1iy ana the Ola GOOSE
\ One day when Uncle Wiggily Long
ears, the rabbit gentleman. came home
to his hollow stump bungalow, having
been out riding in his automobile look
ing for an adventure, he heard, as
soon as he reached his front stoop, a
most jolly tune being played. So jolly
was it that the bunny rabbit uncle had
to dance a few steps before he opened
the door.
well. well. What's all this mu-
sic?" he asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy
Wuzzy, his muskrat lady housekeeper.
Are you having a party and didn't
invite me?'
"Oh nothing of the sort" laughed
Nurse Jane, coming out of the parlor,
where the music sounded loudest.
You see, / just had new phono-
graph sent home from the five-and-
six-cent store, and I'm trying some of
the records. Isn't it nice?" And
/ then she put new needle and thread
in the photograph
Oh, please excuse mel My little
nogra phs-only needles. Anyhow
Nurse Jane put in a new needle and
the machine played such jolly tune
that Uncle Wiggily just had to catch
hold of the muskrat lady around the
waist and. while she carried her long
together to the tune of "Tiddily-
iddily uni"
.Oh, that's fine! Hurray.' cried
Nurse Jane. Aren't you glad 1 have
the new photograph. Uncle Wiggily?"
Indeed L am" he answered. I'VE
must invite all our friends in and give
them concert and dance. This is
as good as having adventures.
And indeed it was-at least so said
all the boy and girl animal friends. and
the older ones, too. that Uncle Wig
gily and Nurse Jone invited to the
hollow stump bungalow during the
next few days.
Sammie and Susie Littletail. the
rabbits, came, and brought Lulu, Alice
and Jimmie Wibblewobble, the ducks.
And the next night Jackie and Peetie
Bow Wow, the puppy dogs. came,
with johnnie and Billie Bushytail, the
squirrels.
Nurse Jane and Uncle Wiggily
would take turns winding up the
phonograph putting in new needles
and records and letting the boy and
girl animals play tunes Then one
night Uncle Wiggily said:
Now all the young folks have had
their fun, let's give a concert for the
old folks. Well play all old fash
toned song and dance music, such as
they used to hear when they were
young. and they'll like it,"
Indeed, they will" cried Nurse
Jane IN like it, too"
So Uncle Wiggily told all his friends
about the old folks concert, and it
happened few nights later. Mr.
Whitewash, the polar bear, came, and
Uncle Butler, the goat. and so did Dr.
Postum and Grandfather Goosey Gan
der, and he brought with him an old
goose lady who was quite deaf.
But perhaps she can hear a little
Bit" said Grandpa Goosey Gander to
Uncle Wiggily.
Perhaps if l play the photograph
real loud" said the bunny uncle. and
then he and Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy
started the old folks concert
They played one record about My
Darling, Nellie Gray. They Have TAX
en- Her Away" and SILVER Threads
Sewed in the Gold" or something like
that, and "On the Peach at Long
Branch and Asbury Park" and all the
old animal gentlemen and ladies
shook their bills or tapped their wings
or twiddled their paws and said:
"Ah, that was fine 1t reminds me
of the days when 1 was a young duck.
just quacking my way along All,
yes"
How do you like it?" asked Uncle
Wiggily of the old goose lady whom
Grandpa Gander had brought to the
concert.
NO, 1 didn't break it, she said.
thinking he was talking about her new
bonnet which somebody had sat on
when she put it on a chair by mistake