The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-25
Copyright, 1919, by Mcclure News
paper ~Syndicate.)
BY HOWARD q GApIc

once upon n time, when Uncle Wig
guy was Just starting out from his hol-
low stump bungalow. Nurse Jane Fuzzy
Wuzzy, his muskrat lady housekeeper.
viii you go to the five and ten
cent store when you come back and
bring a bit Of cheese for supper?"
|That VIII. and right gladly" cx-
claimed Uncle Wiggily, And may |
nope that O will nave n bit Of cab
bage, or carrot. pie to go with the
I'm have the pie, all rIghtm
chuckled Nurse Jane, as Uncle Wig.
gily started off. ~
The bunny uncle had not gone very
ar, hopping over the fields and through
heard someone crying.
"Oh, dear! There, i am stuck again,
I'm always getting tangled up! I'll
never get anywhere today
That said Uncle Wigglly to him
self, as he ,twinkled his pink nose slow
Ike trouble, and If it is any OF my
friends. and not the Pipsisewah or the
Skuddlemagoon. | am going to help
them!
But It hardly can be the Pip or
the Skuddle,' thought the bunny. call
Whitewash put them in his ice cave
the other day. I'll just take a look and
see WIDTHS is
So the bunny looked through the
bushes and there he saw Sammie Lit
%tletail, the rabbit boy, standing near a
prickery thorn bush and looking up
toward the top.
What's the matter, Sammie?" asked
Uncle Wiggily.
ooh, | started to go fishing" Sam
ME answered, "and ] was carrying my
fish pole, with the line tied on, over
VatF aIlAV.11An Did H. IaA V..-
catches in the bushes and gets tangled
up and I'm stuck"
well, III help you get loose this
time" said Uncle Wiggily, kindly, and
he did. %untangling Sammie's line from
the prickery thorn bush, But" went
side Sammie, isn't 1t a bit early to go
"Ohi I don't know" replied Sammie.
sort OF hopeful like and immaterial
IT'S spring now, you know, and I
should think fish would bite in the
spring. ] don't mean bite me-" he went
on. but bite the bait I'm going to put
on my hook that I will fasten to the
line"
~ know what you mean" said Uncle
Wiggily. I have one fishing myself,
when young, like you. But | still think
II is n bit early and"
"Oh. DEAR suddenly cried SammIe,
What's the matter now?' asked
Uncle Wigglly.
NV fish line is caught again" went
on Sammie, and 30 1t was. Carrying his
pole and line owe his shoulder made
the end stick up among the bushes,
and once more the string was tangled.
"Ill unfasten it for you" said Uncle
Wiggily, and he was Just doing this,
and having trouble with a hard snarl,
when, all at once, there was n rustling
sound IN tha-bushes and out Jumped
the blue-nosed baboon.
"Ah, ha'" cried the b|lue-nosed ha-
boon. 81 am In luck today. I have Just
come up from down South. where /
spent the winter. and now, first thing,
| catch two rabbits. This is luck in
deedl'
ooh, deart' sighed Uncle Wlgglly. ~
call this bad lucki'
Obi So you think you have caught
US, do your" quickly cried the brave
Sammle Bittletail. the rabbit boy.
wei, you are wrong. you b~lue-nosed
haboonl u Is you whom I am going
to catch!'
Az quick as a wink Sammie broke
off a long piece Of his fishing line and
threw II at the baboon. The baboon
tried to get out OF the wav, but he
became all tangled up in the cord
worse than the fish line was tangled
In the bushes. The baboon was so
tangled that he couldn't move and