The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-28
1918, by Mcclure Newspaper
S~yndicate.)
BY HOWARD r. oARls

You won't be very long, win your
y luuskrat lady housekeeper, as Uncle
Il WiEgily Longcars. the bunny rabbit
gentleman, started out from his hollow
lump bungalow one day.
Very long, he replied We'll, the
only part Of me that viii he long Is
Fny cars, And l can't help them"
4 No. | don't mean that" said Nurse
Jane, as Uncle Wiggily twinkled his
Epink nose, joking-like. Il mean you
{ won't stay in the woods very long"
"Oh. no. I'm only going out to look
for an adventure, said the bunny. AS
soon as | find that III come right back
So away he hoped on his red, white
and blue striped barber pole rheuma-
z tlsm erutch, and soon he was In the
I woods, where the snow Iay thick under
I the trees, for it was a few days after
Z Christmas,
An at once Uncle Wiggily saw some
I thing that looked like q little house. or
box. on the snow undo a next years
II wonder what that is?" thought the
4 bunny. 1T looks as n It might be a
\ trap. I must be careful and a an
I other look. III put on my glasses.
But when he went To do this he
found be had left hts spectacles home.
and he could not see. very PLAINLY what
4 was lying on the SNOW.
'lf il is a little box, 7 could take II
4 home to Nurse Jane SO she could Keep
her needles, pins, spools OF thread ana
I sewing things in It. thought me puI-
) NY IF 1t is a little house ! could take
II to Susie Littletail, the rabbit girl
to play her dOllies lived in it But, as
it may be neither Of these, hut, instead
a trap, / had best be- careful j.,
Uncle Wiggily WAS walking around
, the thing on the snow, looking at II
\ from all sides, and wishing he had ms
glasses, so he might see "hat II wa,
when, all Of a sudden, he heard a lauEh
and not n very nice kind Of n laugh,
either-and then, out from behind a
| bush jumped the bad old Mogglewog-
'How do you do, mr. Longcars?'
asked the Mogglewoggle, VINO as haN9
told you, has u long tail, as rOuhu anu
him as a lead pencil, How do you dof
mot so very wen since I've seen
Z YOU" answered Uncle Wiggily,N sort OF
: shivery like. Il think IN be going.
'Oh, no! No you WON'T crled the
Mogglewoggle, who had managed TO Rtt
loose from the place where his tan was
1 caught fast In the Crutch holes In the
I snow, the time Uncle WigEily took tho
x custard pie to the poor church mouse
4 lady. you'll stay right here untl |
see II you nave anything good to eat
n in your pockets" said the bad MoRgle-
: lie was just going 10 grab hold Of
n Uncle Wiggily when, all OF II sudden
Il something moved in the little box, or
Vi house, that lay on the snow, and some,
thing ran across the snow and stoou
u beside Uncle Wiggtly. And the some
thing that was very little cried IN u
y small suueaky voice;
You let Uncle Wigglly alone.
'Nyho says SO? Who are you? Pooh,
Tn not afraid of you, You're too little
to scare me-" boasted the Mogglewog-
gle,
Wittle, am l? Well, watch me grow
big.i said the little animal that had
come from the tiny house.
And Their and there Uncle Wiggily
saw a great big lion appear. The lion
was so big that the bunny could see
him without glasses, ana when the
Mogglewoggle saw the lion he cried
ooh, III be good! | won't hurt Uncle
wiggiiy! Let me go! where did yot
come from so suddenly"
u came from the Noah's ARK tina
Jennie Chipmunk got for Christmas,
was the answer. "She forgot It ant
left Il out IN the snow, And, as | an
a wooden lion. when the snow made m'
damp and wet | swelled up big, Ant
now I'm bigger than you
Yes, l see you are" said the Mog'
glewoggle,
And there's a tiger N an elephan'