The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-24
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69VNCEW IGGILN 81
lBEDTLNE' STORY /.


I burned the applepop lolly pudding you
were going 10 bake for supper
Nothing like that laughed Nurse
Jane. The news is that your friend,
Mr.. Whitewash. the polar bear gentle
man. Is going TO move away.
Move away" cried Uncle Wiggily.
Where to, and what for7'
Il don't know the muskrat lady
Then IN go see him and find out,
Not stopping for suppc but putting
his tail SILK hat firmly down over his
ears, Uncle WiRRily began to hop over
the fields and through the woods untll
he found himself coming near TO the Ice
cave where lived Mr., Whitcwash, the
polar bear,
u do hope ! haven't done anything,
or said anything, TO make Mr.. Whites
wash move away thought Uncle Wig
| gily. lie and ] were such good friends,
But perhaps he can't stand the Pipsise-
wah and the Skuddlemagoon. Those two
bad animals are too often In these
woods"
"Oh, We are, are WEI" exclaimed a
voice behind Uncle WIggily, and turn
ing around, he say the Pipsisewah and
the Skuddlemagoon themselves looking
at him without blinking their eyes. As
for Uncle Wiggily, his pink nose twin
Killed. Ike anything.
I'VE heard what you said went on
the Pipsisewah, and, too late, Uncle
Wlgglly remembered that he had spo-
ken out loud,
"s3 you don't like us to be around in
these woods, eh?' asked the Sklddle-
mageon.
mo, don't" exclaimed Uncle Wig
gily, making up his mind he might as
well be brave and bold. You W.
been a great pest and bother ne, ana
you know IT,
wei. we know It." boosted the Pip
sisewah. "and were going to bother
you Il lot more, Mr.. Uncle ,WiggilS
Longears! Catch hold Of him, Skuddle,
my friend cried the Pip, as ! call hin
for short, 'and wen carry this rabbit of
And when we get him there, said
/, the skuddlemagoon, wen have all the
s0use we want Off his ears
, So the Sk"uddlemagoon and the PIP
I sisewah caught hold Of Uncle Wlggtly
I one at each Of the bunny's long ears
and they were just carrying him ava
i when, all at once there was n rush anC
a scramble, and something big an
white slid down the hill,
"Herei You let go OF Uncle Wig
gily!" cried the voice Of Mr.. White
wash. the polar bear gentleman, witt
one paw he caught the Ptpsisewah ant
y slung that bad animal into the ice cave
y which was nearby, with the, othei
I, paw MIR. Whltewash slung the Skuddie-
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polar bear rolled n big chunk OF Ice
over the hole OF the cave, closing II
shut, Just as you close the front door
"Therel" cried Mr., Whitewash, as h
picked his teeth with an icicle' :
guess they won't bother you very sooI
again Uncle Wiggily, The Pip n thu
Skuddle are locked IN"
"Thank you for saving me, Mr.
Whitewash,," spoke the bunny. "Yo'
came along just In time, was OF
my way TO see you, to ask why yo'
are going to move away, ] hope notl
: ing Is wrong. -
HOh, nor laughed Mr.. Whitewash
I'm lust moving back to the nortl
pole because It will soon be spring an
summer here, and too warm for me, y!
am closing up my ice cave. whlcil
will soon melt, anyhow. But y VII
last long enough to cool off the Pip an
] the Skuddle, I guess"
> IL guess so, too" said Uncle Wig
gily, Chen he and the polar bear Efn
Tleman went to the three and tour-cen
store to get "a cup Of chocolate. and,
the palm leaf monkey doesn't climb tn
pineapple tree and throw doughnuts 9
the gingerbread boy, I'll tell you mex
about Uncle Wlggily ana ANNIE
cheese,