The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-24
Copyright. 1920, by Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate)
az HOWARD a. GARIS

BY HOWARD r. eARIs.
Come, Susie! Hurry or you'll be late
for SCHOOL, called Mrs Littletail the
lady rabbit, in the underground house
one morning. Hurry, Susiel'
'"Oh. mother! | don't want to 60 to
school todayv' Susie answered from the
play room where she had gone after
her breakfast of sassafras pancakes
with wintergreen honey sprinkled over
the top for gravy.
Why susiel The idea! What's the
matter? You don't want to go TO
school" exclaimed Mrs. Littletail,
mo. if you please" said Susie, II
want to stay home and fix up my doll
house. One of the rooms needs paper
ing, and the parlor needs sweeping.
Lulu and Alice Wibblewobble, the duck
girls, are coming here this afternoon
to have party, and I want my doll
house to look, nice. Please mayn't
stay home and fix it up pretty!"'
Why. Susie! The ideal Stay home
from school to paper doll house!'
cried Mrs. Littletai1 Certainly not,
my dear! Get. your books and hurry,
well, / don't care!" said Susie. II
think it's mean that can't stay home
and fix up my doll house!''
Uncle Wiggily, the queer old rabbit
gentleman, looked out over the top
Of the Cabbage Leaf Gazette, the morn
twinkled in funny way, and so did
"You hop along to school like a
good little rabbit girl, Susie" he. said,
and Ill fix up your doll house"
"Oh, will you, really?" asked Susie,
all excited now and anxious like.
7 really will" promised the rab-
bit gentleman. II will paper the room
so pretty as never was!'
Susie clapped her paws in delight.
She knew Uncle Wiggily would do as
he said
Soon the little rabbit bunny girl was
on her way to school. Her brother Sam
mie had left some time before, as he
wanted to slide part way. And you
know sliding to school takes twice as
long as going in the regular fashion
Don't forget about my doll house!
called Susie, waving her paw to Uncle
Wiggily as she hoped out of the I'M
foreground burrow.
I'm have it. all ready for the party, "
he answered. a=
Dear me, Wiggy!" said Nurse Jane
Fuzzy WuzZy, the muskrat lady house
keeper who, with Mr.. Longears, was
staying at the Littletail burrow. for a
time. "Hum zuz dud. Wiggy Seems to
me you could find something else to do
besides playing with doll houses!" :,
"Oh, there may be an adventure in 1t
for me-" laughed the bunny gentleman
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fields and through the woods. that day
looking for something to happen, Uncle
Wiggiiy took Susie's doll house and be-
gan to fix it up as ne nad promised.
He found some paper, left over when
the Littletail burrow had been papered
the spring before. and Uncle .Wigglly
pasted that on the room in the doll
house that needed it. Then he painted
the chimney a fresh red color, and he
swept out the house; and then Uncle
WiggiIy laughed. Oh, how hard he
laughed, so that his pink nose tWinkled
twice as fast as never was.
whats the natter" asked Nurse
Jane, curious and suspicious like.
ooh, I just thought of something,
answered Uncle Wiggily, still laugh
ing, as he took down his red, white ant
blue striped rheumatism crutch from
the sideboard and started off across thu
fields.
Il thought you were going to. fl,
Susie's doll house." said the muskra
lady. mot that / think you ought t
be so childish" she Went one, but ;
promise is a promise nm,
"Oh, | am not forgetting" again
laughed Uncle Wiggiy as he hoppet
on and on.
After a while school was out. ant
Susie came home with Lulu and Alic
Wibblewobble, the duck girls
Did Uncle Wiggily fix my dol
house?'' cried Susie as soon as sh
reached home.
Yes, it's all fixed; come and see how
YOU like It," answered Uncle Wiggil,
himself, for he had returned home from
wherever he had gone, ,E..-.
He went with Susie Lulu and Alct
to the playroom. There stood the dol
house, with the newly painted red chin
ney, with the room freshly papered a
pretty as never was and the who'll
house frightened.
ooh, how lovely!" quacked Lulu an
Alice
"Thank you, Uncle Wtggily" sal
Susie Now we can have lovely dol
party"