The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-09
Bedtime Stories
Uncle Wiggily and Becl<ie's Feather
Roa
By HOWARD R. GAkIs

I y
A>-------------- ~--,------------~---~--
Uncle Wiggily and Becl<ie's Feather
Boa.
.Oh, dear! / don't see why 1 can't
have one," exclaimed Beckie Stubtail,
the little bear girl, as she was walking
past Uncle Wiggily's hollow stump
bungalow in the woods one day. u
want one very awful mucb.'
f'Ho. Ha, What is it you waht?"
asked the bunny rabbit gentleman
from his porch where he was sitting
and eating the last of carrot ice
cream cone Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy.
his muskrat lady housekeeper had Just
baked for him.
81 want a feather boa" said Beci<ie.
.All the other girls down on the Dos rd-
walk have them and / don't see why l
can't!''
But why in the world do you want
feather boa in SUMMER asked the
+ bunny. And what is feather boa,
anyhow p?
.It is a furry sort of thing to go
around your neck explained Beckie,
only it is made of feathers. It's like
| a scarf or muffler"
1T seems to me that you have fur
|, enough" spoke the rabbit gentleman.
las for keeping warm, it is hot with
out something around your neck
! But it's Stylish" went on Becxie.
All the other girls have them. Lulu
and Alice Wibblewobble, the ducks;
! Arabella Chick and all. I'm the only
/ one without a feather boa," And
tears came into her eyes and she wa g-
gled her little stubby tail tafter which
she was namely real sorrowful Ike
"Oh, dear!" she sighed.
| We'll, this is too bad." said Uncle
| Wiggily. Here, Beckie, you come up
| on the porch and sit down. and I'll see
! II can't find feather boa for you.
| Here, Nurse Jane" called the rabbit
gentleman, bake another carrot ice
! cream cone for Beckie and have it
| cooked good and brown
"Oh, you are so good. Uncle Wig
| s1ly. And so is the carrot ice cream
cone" Beckie said, as she ate it, 81
love to bite it,
/ We'll. don't bite me; that's all
ask" said Uncle Wiggily with a laugh
Now I'll go look for feather boa
for you. But l don't exactly promise
for sure to get one. I'll do my best
tho"
So away he went, over the fields
and thru the woods looking for a
feather boa for Beckie. Naturally the
first place he looked was at the coor
of Mrs Cluck-Cluck. the hen lady.
Feather boas?" exclaimed Mrs
Cluck-Cluck. "Well. now. 1 did have
some, but I've none left. Arabella
my little girl, used up ali the loose
feathers making boas for her friends
They're so stylish this year at the
board walk, boas are
That's too bad" said Uncle Wig
gily. I'll try over at the pen of Mrs
Wibble-wobble. the duck lady
But there the story was the same
All Mrs. Wibblewobble's loose feath.
ers had gone into boas for Lulu ant
Alice. her two girls.
We'll, l dent know what I'm goins
to do" said the bunny uncle, as h,
hoped on thru the woods. "rd Xix,
. to get a feather boa for Beckie tt
, wrap around her neck. She doesn'
, exactly need it, but since the othel
+ animal girls are stylish with them.
don't like Beckie to be disappointed.
. Still, l don't know where L am t.
: get her one. But I'll go thru tn.
woods a little farther and see wha
| luck 1 have
"Ho! Ho. Uncle Wiggily. Wha
luck do you wish to have, and fo
, what are you looking?" asked a voice
) and green pine tree noe led at tn
bunny gentleman.
Il am looking for a feather boa 70
, Beckie Stubtail, a friend Of mine,
, explained Uncle Wiggily. But l can
find any,
"Ha! Perhaps I can make you one,
E said the pine tree.
, What? You?" cried the bunny il
5 surprise.
Yes. Let me see now Have yol
e any chewing gum %
81 Chewing gum? 1 never use it
A laughed Uncle Wiggily.
well, then. we'll have to use som
4 of the gum that runs out of m
t trunk went on the pine tree. TAX
n some of it in your paws. Don't worry
n butter or any grease will peal it of
o afterward.''
= So Uncle Wiggily took some of tn
n sticky gum from the pine tree. The
, the tree told him to roll the CUR
t around a long piece of ribbon-grass
and Uncle Wiggily did that.
t Now roll the sticky piece of rib
: bon-grass in a lot of my loose needles.
|, said the pine tree. They look exactl
n like the feathers in a boa
e So Uncle Wiggily did that. and 500
O the sticky ribbon-grass was all covere
r with long pine needles.
There's your feather boa 70
d Beckie!" said the pine tree. and, sure
h 1y enough. it was, as stylish as coul
t be wished. The pine needles stuck t
: the gum-covered ribbon-grass, an
a when it was tied on the little bea
= girls neck she walked the board wal
g very happy like indeed.
o So everything came out all RICH
J. and if the hammock doesn't go t
k sleep in the porch swing and fore
e to wake up in time for the movin
t pictures I'll tell you next about Uncl
Wiggily and the Copy
a right. 1917, by Mcclure Newspape
p Syndicate.)
e ~->-~~>>~->--------