The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-26
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BEDTIME STONY
UNCLE WIGGILY AND sUsIE's WAsHTNG

all blued and wrung out and every
thing" said Susie. II only had some
one to, hang them on the line for
| me"
| susie came downstairs with a little
toy basket of dolls wash in her paws.
| she looked at Uncle Wiggily in funny
way, Susie did. She had not forgot
ten how nicely he painted and papered
her. doll house.
Leave the clothes there, Susie. I'll
hang them out for you while you're at
school, promised the old rabbit gentle
man.
We'll, the idea! never heard of the
llke OF mat; exclaimed Mrs. Littletail
Nor I, either" exploded Nurse Jane.
shifting like.
Oh, thank yeu, Uncle wiggily" said
Susie, as she hurried on to school
you'll find my toy clothes pins in my
Then Susie skipped along. and Nurse
Jane, turning to Uncle Wiggily, re-
fmarked:
do you mean to tell me, Mr.. Uncle
| Wiggily Longears, that you are going
to hang out that childs doll washing
| for her?'
Yes. Why not?" asked the bunny
| gentleman. II have nothing special to
do this morning, and by hanging out
Susie's washing l may meet with an
adventure, VINO KNOWS
Nurse Jane held up her paws help
| less like and Indispensable, and so did
| Mrs. Littletail They knew it was of
no use to try to stop Uncle Wiggily,
once he had his mind made up;
SO it was, little later that the bun
ny rabbit gentleman, putting on his
| TALL silk hat and well wrapped in his
fur coat took the little basket of dolls
clothes Susie had washed, and began
to hang them out in the yard back of
the burrow house.
There were sheets and pillow cases
and spreads and dresses and other
things that dolls wear. All nice and
white they were, for Susie was a good
washer, and proud of her dolls things.
Il don't suppose there Is any special
way of hanging things up, said Uncle
WBgily paregoric like, as he TOOK
sheet from the basket
He spread the sheet oversize line, as
he had often seen Nurse Jane do, but,
somehow or other, the wind at once
blew the sheet off again.
"Hum / wonder what is the cause
of that?" thought the bunny gentleman:
Then he saw, at the upper window of
the underground house, Nurse Jane and
7Ha! They think don't know
clothes" thought the bunny, "Tll show
them! Let me see, what did Susie tell
me to geY Oh, remember! Clothes
pins. They will hold the things on the
line!"
Thowing the sheet on the line again.
Uncle Wiggily hurried in to get the
clothes pins He found bag Of them
near the doll house.
Nurse Jane and Mrs. Littletail said
nothing, They watched and waited to
see what Uncle Wiggily would do, and,
,t-l,f .tn of l.n xryiI0
ing out in the yard, they saw the bad
old Skeezicks come sneaRing along. The
Skeezicks was looking for Uncle Wig
gily, and when he saw the sheet spread
over the line he quickly hid himself
behind it as well as he could. His
feet stuck down below, however.
ooh, look at that!' cried Nurse Jane.
THE Skee will get Uncle Wggily;"
Yes, we must warn him not to go
back in the yard with the clothes pins"
exclaimed Mrs. Littletail.
They hurried from the room to stop
Uncle Wiggily from going out, but he
had already left the house. Into the
yard he hurried with the bag of clothes
pins.
Now Susie's clothes won't blow
away" he said.
On, Uncle ,Wiggily Uncle Wiggily!"
called Nurse Jane and Susie's mother
from the WINDOW. Look out for the
Skee!"
And, just in time, Mr.. Longears
looked and saw the thin legs of the
bad chap sticking down below the
sheet on the line.
Then what did Uncle Wiggily DO?
Well, I'll tell you. He looked and he
saw that the Skee had his thin paws
on top of the sheet as it hung on the
line. And, as quickly as 2 jumping
jack, the bunny gentleman took some
h clothes DinS and he Dinnnd the SkeS-