The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-26
Bedtime Stories
BY HOWARD r. 0ARIs

"Oh, dear" exclaimed Nurse Jane
Fuzzy Wuzzy, the nice muskrat lady
housekeeper of Uncle Wiggily Long
ears. the rabbit gentleman, as she sat
all wrapped up in a rocking chair.
"Ah-ham! A-ker-choo. A-ker-snitzio!-
My, goodness me, sakes alive and
some mustard plasters!'' cried the
bunny uncle, who was just getting
ready to hop out OF his hollow stump
bungalow. You are catching cold,
Nurse Jane"
Catching cold" sneezed and cough
ed the lady muskrat. II think the
cold has caught me, and it didn't have
to run very fast to do it, either. oh,
Gear, I don't believe I'll be able to do
much homework today, Wiggy, unless
have some medicinei"
TN GO right away and get you
some from the five-and-six-cent store"
said the bunny rabbit. I'll get you
some sneezing, coughing and cold
medicine
THAT will be very a-ker-choo-
kind of-ker-snitZio-o you!" said
Nurse Jane.
Uncle Wiggily hurried out to the
chicken coop, where his automobile
had been sleeping during the night,
and, turning the whizzicum- whaZzi-
cum to make it go, in he hoped to
ride off to the medicine store.
Now everything would have been all
right, except for what happened. Uncle
Wiggily was riding along, thinking
how sorry he was about Nurse Jane,
and how kind she was to him and all
that, when, all of a sudden, his auto
mobile ran into a mud puddle on the
road left there by the last April show
er, and them
Well, you know how it is if, when
you are running fast and you sudden
| 1x-s inf
was that way with Uncle Wiggily' s
| automobile. The bologna sausage
! tires spun around like Sammie Little
tails top when it's in a hurry, and
| then the machine, with the rabbit
gentleman in it, tried to turn a SOM
ersault.
| 1t didn't quite do it. but it stood up
| on it's hind wheels, like a horse when
| it's playing tag, and then it ran back
ward and splashed the muddy water
! all over. Finally it scooted across the
mud puddle sideways and stopped.
| Uncle Wiggily sat still for min
ute but nothing else happened. He
was not hurt. except for being shaken
up, and the auto was not hurt, except
for being all muddy, but that would
wash off.
so 1 guess I'll go on to GRANDPA
Their Goosey Gander's house and play
| a game of-bean bag" said the bunny
uncle to himself And then he stopped
short, funny look came over his face.
under his pink nose and he said:
"Ha, hum. That doesn't sound just
right. Now did 1 start out to go play
checkers with Grandpa Goosey?"
| He tried to think. but the more he
] thought the more mixed up he be-
| came.
| That doesn't seem just right" he
said. Il believe 1 started out to buy
new turnip steering wheel for my
automobile and yet that doesn't seem
right either"
Uncle Wiggily thought little long
| er and then he said:
oh, now l remember, 1 was go
ing to see how much there was left of
Beckie Stubtail's mud pie after we put
some on the nose of Susie Littletail,
my rabbit niece, where the bee stung
her. OF course."
| And yet the more Uncle Wiggily
thought of that the less sure he was
of being right.
It's very queer!" he said. But I
seem to have forgotten what 1 started
out to get Let me try to think"
So he thought as hard as he could,
but the more he thought the more he
forget. The truth was that spinning
around so fast in his automobile in
the mud puddle had made him forget
all about what he wanted to do.
Gould it be that l was going to go
out sailing in my airship, and that it
turned into an automobile instead ~
he asked himself But, do what he
did, he could not remember.
All of sudden Uncle Wiggi1y saw
Mamie Wagtail, the little goat girl,
coming along thru the woods Nan
ME had a little basket on her hoof
and she wore sun bonnet on her
head.
'Oh, Nannie," cried Uncle Wiggily.
DO you know what it is L have for
gotten?"
why no. Uncle Wiggily. I'm
sorry to say do not" answered Nan
ME. What's the matter?''
Then Uncle Wiggily told about
starting out in his automobile, and
now 1t went crooked and sideways in
the slippery mud puddle and made
his head so dizzy that he forgot every
thing he had ever remembered.
DID you start out to go to some
oodys dinner party?" asked Mamie
after she had mentioned i number OF
thlngs, none of which Uncle Wiggily
thought was right
NO; 1t wasn't a party" said the
bunny.
Then I'll tell you what to do" said
Mamie. You come and help me nict
a bouquet. It is almost Nav. and the
April showers have brought out some
early flowers. Help me to fill my
basket"
So Uncle Wiggily did, walking thru
"oOuS VIII tHe Httle goat girl
gathering the pretty posies.
Soon Nannie's basket was full and
she held it to Uncle Wiggilys pins
nose. saying:
Take a good. long SMELL and see
how sweet they are"
The bunny gentleman smelled anc
shifted and then, all of a sudden one
fuzzy flower tickled his nose and he
sneezed-''A-ker-cho o-ker-snitzio,'
Ha! Now 1 remember. Now I re.
member he cried. THE flower;
made me sneeze. When you sneezt
you are catching cold. Nurse Jane ha.
cold and 1 was to get her some medi
cine for it! L remember now!" ant
away he hurried IN his automobile t.
the five-and-six-cent store and Dough
the medicine, which soon cured tn,
muskrat lady.