The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-07
Bedtime Stories
Uncle wiggily and the waterfall.
By HOWARD r. oAkIs


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Uncle Wiggily and the Waterfall.
.'Oh, Uncle Wiggilyi Please come
and play with usi' called Jimmie Wib-
blewobble. the boy duck, one morning
as he stood quacking out in front of
tho hollow stump bungalow, where
Uncle Wiggily Longears, the rabbit
gentleman lived.
Nonsense. Run away! Uncle Wig
gily can't come out to pIayr" said
Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy.
'Oh, yes, he CAM" exclaimed the old
rabbit gentleman himself. And down
he came off the porch, carrying his
tall silk hat on one ear, while under
his paw he had the red, white and
blue striped rheumatism crutch that
his muskrat lady housekeeper had
gnawed tor him out of a cornstalk
TN come and play" said the bunny
uncle, twinkling his pink nose.
oh, goodie" quacked Alice Wib-
biewobble. the duck girl sister of
Jimmie.
We're going to have fun at the
WATERFALL" added Lulu. the other
duck.
So Uncle Wiggily. with Lulu, Alice
and Jimmie, set off thru the woods
70 go to where the waters of the little
brook tumbled and fell over the green,
messy stones, making a waterfall.
Dear mel" exclaimed Nurse Jane
Fuzzy Wuzzy, shaking her tail as
Uncle Wiggily went off with the duck
children. Il never saw such a child
Ism old rabbit gentleman in all nv lifet
Neveri''
But Uncle Wiggily wanted to have
some fun, as he did not like to feel
Old And, pretty soon, he was watch
ing the duck boy and girls padding
in the water, as they let some dia-
mond-colored drops splash on them
from the fall
isn't there anything else we can
DO q asked Alice, when she and Lulu
Ilnished making some mud pies which
have some other kind of fun"
Il can make a water wheel" said
Jimmie
What's that?" asked Lulu.
It's like pinwheel, only it's diff
ferent," explained her brother You
make it of two little pieces of wood,
put together in the shape of a letter
x. and you fasten it on a stick so it
VIII whirl around, and when you hold
it under the falling water it turns like
an electric fan or pinwheel."
Please make one for us" said
Alice
Il will,' said Jimmie, and he did.
Uncle Wiggily, with his strong teeth,
gnawed out of a tree the wooden pad
dies for Ummie's water wheel, and
and it was spIashing around and
around under the little waterf- Il.
Leaving the duck children at their
fun, Uncle Wiggily wandered on and
on thru the woods.
Perhaps 1 may have an adven-
ture," he said. .'1 hope So"
No sooner had he said these words.
just as it happens in fairy stories,
than, all of a sudden, from behind a
bush the rabbit gentleman heard a
voice saying most sadly:
"Oh, dear! oh, dear. I'll never
get it done at this rate, and if I don't
there won't be any for dinner! Oh,
dear, What shall 1 do?"
''Ha! That SOUNDS like trouble
where I may be able to help" said
Uncle Wiggily, sort of sprucing him
self up and twinkling his pink nose.
He looked behind the bush, and
there he saw a little mouse lady. Be-
side her was a churn with a wheel
instead of a handle. and the mouse
lady was turning this wheel slowly.
Wiggily.
.Oh, I can't get the butter churned,"
answered the mouse lady. Il put the
sour cream in my churn. and I've
turned and turned and turned II, but
l cannot turn fast enough. and 1 fear
the butter will not be made In time Tor
dinner. oh, dear!"
Let me try" said Uncle Wiggily
Rut when he turned the churn for
the mouse lady he turned too fast, be-
ing much stronger than was she. and
she cried:
.Oh, that will never do. 1t would
be all right to make ice cream, turn
ing fast that way, but not for butter,"
ssHa, Then I know just what to do
said Uncle Wiggily. III hitch your
churn to Jimmie Wibblewobble's wa
ter wheel, and that will turn around
lust fast enough to make butter"
So he took the mouse lady's churn,
sour cream and all, to the banks of
the little brook, and when the wheel
of the churn was made fast to the
water wheel with a strand of honey
suckle vine for belt, the splashing
water wheel churned the butter as
nicely as you please
'Oh, this is Iovelyi' cried the mouse
lady as she took out the yellow lump
of butter on some green grape leaves.
Now you must all come to lunch with
me and spread some of my new butter
on your bread and carrot JAM"
And they did, Uncle Wiggily includ-
ed. And every one said Jimmie's wa
terfall wheel was fine.
So you see everything came out all
right and If the bookworn doesn't go
frozen pudding, I'll tell you next about
Uncle Wiggily and the sour grass
Copyright. 1917, by Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)
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