Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-05-11
UNCLE W,GGiLY AND NANNlE's
FLOWERS.

UNCLE AND NANNIe'S
FLOWERS.
ooh. dear!" exclaimed Nurse Jane
Fuzzy WuZzy, the nice muskrat lady
ho%usekeeper of Uncle Wigglly Long.
ears, the rabbit gentleman, as she sat
all wrapped up in a rocking chair.
'.Ah-ham! A-ker-choo! -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
coughed the lady muskrat. ~ think the
cold has caught me and it didn't have
to run very fast to do it. either. Oh.
dear. i don't believe I'll be able to do
much housework today, Wiggy. unless
| have some medicine"
"TM go right away and get you some
from the 5-and-6-cent store said the
bunny rabbit. I'll get you some sneez-
ing, coughing and cold medicine"
THAT will be Observation-Disclosures
of-her-snitzio-of 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 abOu Nurse Jane n
how kind she was to him and all that.
when all of a sudden his automobile
ran into a mud puddle on the road left
there by the last April shower and
Well, you know how it is if, when
o are running fast and you suddenly
step into a slippery mud puddle. 1t was
that way with Uncle Wiggily's auto
mobile. The bologna sausage tires spun
around like Sammie l4ittletails top
when it's in a hurry and then the ma
chine. with III rabbit gentleman in it.
tried to turn Il somersault.
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 a minute.
but nothing else happened. He was not
hurt except for being shaken up. and
the auto was not hurt except for being
all mud, but that would wash off.
SO l guess I'll go on to Grandfather
Goosey Gander's house and play "A game
of bea bag" said the bunny uncle to
himself. And then he stopped short. a
funny look came over his face under
his pink nose and he said:
"Ha, hum! That doesn't sound just
right. Now did I start out to go play
checkers with Grandpa G~oosey?"
He tried to think, but the more he
thought the more mixed up he became
THAT doesn't seem just right" ne
said. II believe l started out to buy
a new turnip steering wheel for my
automobile and yet hat doesn't seem
right either"
Uncle Wiggily thought a little longer
and Their he said:
Oh, now l remember! 1 was going
to see how much there was left OF
Beckie Stubtail's mud pie after we put
some on the nose Of Susie Little tell.
my rabbit niece, where the bee stung
her. OF course!"
And yet the more Uncle Wigglsy
thought of that the less sure he was
of being right.
It's very aueer." he said. "But
seem to nave forgotten what l 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
forgot. The truth was that spinning
around so fast in his automobile in the
mud puddle a made him forget all
about what he wanted to 10.
Gould it be that I was going to go
out sailing in my airship. and that it
turned into an automobile instead? ne
asked himself. But, do what he did. he
could not remember.
All of a sudden Uncle Wiggily saw
Mamie Wagtail, the little goat girl.
coming along through the woods. Nam
ME had a little basket on her hoof and
she wore a 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 dc not" wer Nannle'
What's h matter"
Then Tinc1Q Wippi1v fold ahOuf start
ing out in his automobile. and how it
went crooked and sideways in the Slip
perry mud puddle and made his head SO
dizzy that he forgot everything he had
ever remembered.
lid o start out to go to some
body's Dime party?" asked Mamie,
after she had mentioned a number of
things, none of which Uncles Wiggily
thought was right.
mo: it wasn't a party" said the
bunny.
Then I'll tell you what to do" said
Mamie. You come and help me pick a
hoquet. It is almost May, n n April
showers have brought out some early
flowers. Help me to fill my basket"
So Uncle Wiggily did, walking
through the woods with the little goat
girl, gathering the pretty posies.
Soon Nannie's basket was full and
h held it to Uncle Wiggily's pink
nose. saying:
Take a good long smell, and see how
sweet they are"
The bunny gentleman smeNed and
shifted and then, all of a sudden one
fuzzy flower tickled his nose and he
sneezed-.A-ker-choo-k -snitzio!"
"Ha! Now l remember! Now I re-
member!" he cried. .sThe flowers made
me sneeze. When you sneez you are
catching cold. Nurse Jane has a cold
and l was to get her some medicine for
1t! i remember nOw!" and away he
hurried in his automobile to the five