The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-05
A8VNCM WIGGILX s
sBEDTIME' STORY
UNCLE WIGGILY AND HIS RAINCOAT

nose, brave but not naughty like. with
my rusty umbrella, and my rub
All. but you forget" cried the musk
rat lady housekeeDer. THE Pipsisew wal
took, your rubbers the other night, and
you mad to come home in some old rub
Der hot water bags, that Grandpa
Goosey didn't need any more"
True. Nurse Jane, very true" spoke
the bunny. But | went TO the 6 and Z
cent store today, and bought me a new
pair OF rubbers. So, with them and NV
tfusty umbrella and my rain coat / am
not afraid to go out In any storm, Be
sides promised 10 come"
Promised who?" Nurse Jane wanted
to know.
II promised Grandfather Goosey
Gander would come over and sit by
him while he is getting we'll, said the
bunny, He can't go out in this rain,
but can, and | will, and Ill go see
Grandpa Goosey, with my umbrella,
rubbers and rain coat"
Very well; II you will go | can't stop
you, said Nurse Jane. But 1t is rain
ing very hard, and IL you get wet and
catch the ~epizootic don't blame me"
II won't" promised Uncle Wiggily.
with that he cav his pink nose one
more last, brave but very sociable
twinkle, and away he went, hopping
over the fields and through the woods
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gily. as he hoped along. II hope l
have an adventure"
AND he did,
But first the bunny safely reached
grandfather Goosey Gander's house,
where Uncle Wiggily sat and played
Scotch checkers to make the time pass
more pleasantly for MIR. Gander.
But III have to go now said Uncle
Wiggily after a while. Nurse Jane
WI think have been washed away in
the ram If | stay too long"
well take care Of YOURSELF
quacked Grandpa Goosey, as the bunny
put on his r%aincoat and started to
cave. Look out there suddenly
cried Mr.. Gander. You have caught
your raincoat on a chair and you're
pulling so hard you'll tear it-tear your
raincoat mean, not my chair
oh, no. said Uncle Wiggily. My
raineoat is very stretchy, II Is made
from the leaves Of the rubber plant,
with blossoms from the umbrella plant
LOT trimmings. And being of rubber,
Uncle Wiggily pulled his coat, which
was caught on a chair. and the coat
stretched like the rubber on your wax
dolls Sunday go -to-meeting hat. And
after II stretched 1t went back right
into the proper shape again.
That's a fine %raincoat, Uncle Wig.
giiyl. said Grandpa Goosey.
yes it's very good" spoke tho
bunny,
Well. Uncle wiggily was hopping
along through the rain, wondering what
Nurse Jane would have for supper in
his hollow stump bungalow. when, all
OF a sudden he heard a cry Of:
Fire, Fire! Fire"
My goodness me sakes alive and
some water. crackers cried Uncle
his Tain?'
And just then Billie Bushytail, the
squirrel boy, scampered past, leaping
along In a tree, and Billie cried:
The Wi6blewobble duck house is on
IRE, ana they can't get out Hurry,
So Udeie' Wigglly hurried and when
he got n the Wibblewobble luck house,
there,H the upper window. he saw Lulu
.A@AaAtce and Jimmie-the three chill
M~pen-and Mr.. and Mrs. Wibblewobble,
the father and mother ducks.
The first floor Of our house is all
on fire." cried Mr.. Wibblewobble. 1T
was struck by lightning. We can't get
out from downstairs
Then jump out of the window from
upstairs, cried Uncle Wlggily. You
oh, IT'S too far quacked Alice.
And our wings are so vet from the
rain that we can't fly well!" quacked
Lulu.
"Hal | have it," cried Uncle Wiggily.
My big, stretchy ~raincoat, Come on,
everybody" he cried. Wen hold out
my raincoat under the window, like a
net, and the ducks can jump into that"
All who had come to the fire helped
Uncle, Wlgglly hold his big, rubbery.
stretchy r%aincoat out like a blanket, or
a net, n down into this the ducks
jumped and filtered. They were saved
from the fire and weren't hurt a bit,
because they bounched UP so nicely In
Uncle ,Wiggily's rubber raincoat, And
the rain put out the fire before IL had
burned the duck house all down. Part
Of IL was saved.
And II the needle doesn't wink its eye
at the pin cushion and try to sew the
door shut TO keep out the cat. I'll tell
you next about Uncle Wiggily and Bill
lies haircut.