The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-11
Bedtime Stories
Uncle wiggily and Wonderland Alice.
nY HOWARD Il. GARIs

Wuzzy, his muskrat lady hcusekeeper,
one morning, as he hoped off the
front steps of his hollow stump run
galow, with his red, white and blue
striped rheumatism crutch folded up
inside his tall silk hat. "Good-byt"
"Good-by," answered Nurse Jane,
and 1 hope you have a nice adven-
ture."
Thanks I wish you The same" an
swered Uncle sWiggily, and away he
woods. He had not horped very far,
looking this way and that, before, all
of a sudden, he came p a queer Ettl7
place, near an old rail fence Down
derground.
'Ha! That's queer" said Uncle
Wiggily 70 himself. THAT looks just
like the kind of an underground
1 wonder if it can be where ] made my
home before 1 moved to the hollow
stump bungalow? 1 must lake a look
Nurse Jane would like to hear all
about it.
So Uncle Wiggily. folding back his
ears in orGer that they would not get
bent over and broken, began crawling
down the rabbit hole, for that is what
it really was
1t was dark inside, but the bunny
uncle did not mind that, being. able to
see in the dark. Besides, he could
make his pink nose twinkle wher. he
wanted to, and this gave almost as
much light as u FREELY.
NO, this isn't the barrow where
used to live" said Uncle Wiggily to,
himself. when he had nopped quite i
distance into the hole. But it's very
nice Perhaps I may have an adj
venture here Who knows"
And just as he said that to himself.
Uncle Wiggily saw, lying under
little table, in what seemed to be !.
room in the underground house, L
small glass box.
Hal My adventure begins" cried
Uncle WISgily. .'In open that glass
box and see what is in it,
So the bunny uncle raised the cover.
and in the glass box was a little cake.
made of ca rrots and cabbage, and on
top. spelled out in pink raisins, were
the words:
EAT ME"'
''Ha. That's just what I'll do!''
cried jolly Uncle Wiggily, and, never
stopping 10 think anything might be
wrong, thu bunny gentleman ate the
cake. And then, all OF a sudden, he
began to feel very funny.
"Oh, my!' exclaimed Uncle WigGily
81 hope that cake didn't belong to my
nephew, Sammie Littletail, or Johnnie
or Billie Bushytail, the squirrel
brothers. One of them may have lost
it out of his lunch basket on his way
to school l hope it wasn't any of
their cake But there is surely some
thing funny about it, for feel so very
queeri"
had suddenly begun to grow very
large. His ears grew taller, SO that
they lifted his tall silk hat right off
his head. His legs seemed as long as
bean poles, and for his whsle rs
and pink. twinkling nose, they seemed
so far away from his eyes that he
wondered if he would ever get them
near enough to see to comb the one
or scratch the other when it felt
ticklish.
cried Uncle Wiggily. It wonder what
made me grow so large all of a sud
den Could it have been the cake
which gave me the indyspepsia
1T was the cake!" cried sudden
and buying voice; and. looking
big mosquito. TT was the cake that
made you grow big went on the
bad biting bug, land 1 put it here for
you to eat
What for?" asked the bunny un-
Gle, puzzled like.
couldn't get out of this hole" was
the answer. And now you can't!
This is how 1 have caught you! Ha!
Hal" and the mosquito buzzed a most
unpleasant laugh.
"Oh dear" thought Uncle Wiggily
81 wonder if 1 am caught? Can't 1
get out as l got imp
y Quickly he hoped to the front of
the hole. But alas! Likewise sorrow
fulness. He had grown so big from
eating the magical cake that he could
not possibly squeeze out of the hole
thru which he had crawled into the
underground burrow
Nov 1 have caught you" cried the
mosquito. Since we could not catch
you at your soldier tent or in the
h
| galow, thought of this way. Now we
have you and We'll bite you!" and the
big mosquito. who with his bad friends
had dug the hole on purpose to get
Uncle Wiggily in trap, began to
play bugle tune on his wings to call
the other biting bugs
"Oh, DEAR thought Uncle Wiggily
| Il guess 1 am caught, And 1 haven't
my talcum powder pop gun that
shoots beanbag bullets! Oh, if 1 could
only get out of here!"
i You can get out, Uncle Wigg:ly."
said soft little voice down toward
the end Of his pink, twinkling Sc
"Oh, No 1 can'tH he said. Il am
I much too large to squeeze out of the
hole by which I came IN here. Much
too large. Oh, dear"
! Here, drink some of this and
you'll grow small just as I did when
I drank from it before l fell into the
pool of tears" and. to Uncle Wiggily s
| SUI pi 1850 liCIS SlOOi d nice little girl
with long, flaxen hair. She was hold :
/ ing out to him a bottle with a tag
/ that read.
DRINK ME-"
Am 1 really to drink this?" asked
the bunny.
You are, said the little girl.
Uncle Wiggily took a long drink
from the bottle. 1t tasted Ike a 1olly-
pop ice cream soda, and no sooner
| had he taken g good sip than all of
a sudden he found himself shutting
up small, like a telescope. Smaller
and smaller he shrank. until he was
| his own regular size, and then the
little girl took him by the paw and
! cried:
Come on Now you can get outi"
And, surely enough, Uncle Wiggilsr
! could.