The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21
Bedtime Stories
Uncle wiggiIy and the Hasty Pudding.
BY HOWARD n. GARIs

BY HOWARD n. GARIs
Uncle Wiggily and the Hasty Pudding.
oh. dear," exclaimed Nurse Jane
Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrar lady nurse
for Uncle Wiggily Longesrs. as she
started out of the hollow stump bun
galow one morning, i've forgotten all
about it,
Forgotten about what" asked the
old gentleman rabbit, as he was about
to hop off in the woods to look for an
adventure.
II forgot to make anything for des-
sert-you know what l mean, a pud-
ding pie or cake to ea- after sup
per-"
We'll, can't 1 make it?'' asked the
bunny. Il fried an egg the other day,
and scared the bear. l don't want to
keep you in to make a dessert when
you are all ready to go out. Can't
1"rhe only thing there is time to
make. now is a hasty pudding" said
Nurse Jane.
whats that ?" asked the bunny.
"Oh, it's pudding that can be
made very quickly-in great haste,
you know, when company comes un-
eXpectedly. You stir up some corn
eggs and cinnamon spice, and other
things nice, in a bowl, and bake them
in the oven That is a hasty pudding,
and you must mix up everything very
quickly and bake it as fast or it will
not be good"
I'm sure I can do it," said Uncle
| Wiggily. go on to the .)Ie and two
cent store where you are going to
buy the new piano, and I'll go for my
walk in the woods. When it's almost
time to get supper I'll come back and
make the haSty pudding for dessert
| ''All right-if you think you can do
it," spoke Nurse Jane.
! So away she went, and Uncle Wig
| gily, after he had set out the corn
meal, the sugar, molasses, spice and
osher things where he could get at
them quickly to make a hasty pud-
ding, went for walk in the woods to
look for an adventure.
But he did not find one. However,
there was one waiting for him at the
hollow stump bungalow, as he soon
! found when he reached there.
As the bunny gentleman opened
the door of the kitchen, to get ready
to make the hurry up-I mean hasty
pudding. a voice said, very slowly
and ladylike:
We'll I'm glad-you- came-in. I've
been waiting-a-le g-time-for-you"
And before Uncle Wiggily could get
! out ofthe way great. big, bad snap
ping turtle, who had been hiding be-
hind the door, grabbed the rabbit gem
| tiefldn Dy his IllI6 SNORT Tall. -
NowI-have-you!" slowly said the
turtle, for he not only moved slowly,
but he talked the same way. He new
er could have caught the bunny ex-
eept by hiding behind the door.
What are you going to do with
me?" asked Mr.. Longears, trying to
pull his tail away from the swapping
turtle, but the bunny couldn't do it.
I'm going to-hold -you-hereA : un-
til-my Observation-Disclosures bear comes
to-get-you," answered the turtle. 81
said-Td o-it-and-I-will-so therei"
and he spoke more slowly than ever.
"Oh. dear,' cried Uncle Wiggily.
with the turtle clinging to his tail.
This is terrible. Still, it Is no reason
whyT should not make the hasty pud-
ding as | promised. Maybe If l do
something will happen"
Then Uncle Wiggily fairly jumped
| about the bungalow kitchen, for he
knew that he must move quickly in
making hasty pudding.
From the table to the ice box. from
the ice box to the stove. from the stove
to the table hoped the bunny. And
everywhere he went the swapping tur-
tie went, too, holding fa.s' on Uncle
Wiggily's tail and sliding swiftly over
the smooth oil cloth on the floor. since
the turtles claws wouldn't catch on
''Whizz, Whazz, Whuzz," hurried
Uncle Wiggily. He slashed the corn
meal into a dish, stopped in the mo-
lasses. dashed in the sugar, threw in
the spices, and, all the while he
| hoped about the kitchen like a
jumping-jack.
"Oh, what-in-the-world- are-you do
ing?" asked the turtle. "Can't-you-
keep minute? You-make- me-
so-nervous."
II can't keep still. I'm making a
hasty hurry-up pudding" said the
bunny.
Then Uncle Wiggily hurried more
than ever to get the pudd ng baked
and he sloshed around so fast that
the turtle said:
''Well this is no -place-for-a slow
person like me where they make
hasty-puddings I'll-get- heart-disease ~
Then he let go of Uncle Wlggily's tail
and crawled slowly away. And Nurse
1 Jane. when she ate some later. said
the pudding was very good.
So if the humble bee doesn't go te
sleep in the honeysuckle vine and
blow the morning glory flower trum-
pet to wake up the sunflower, I'll tell
you next about Uncle Wiggily and the
mince pie.-(Copyright. 1917. by Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)