Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-09-26
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE
WATER HOUSE.

Where are you going, Uncle
Wiggily?" asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy
Wuzzy one morning as she saw Mr..
Longears, the bunny rabbit gentle
man, skipping gaily along on his
red, white and blue striped rheu-
matism crutch.
TIN going to school--to the hol-
low stump school. where the lady
mouse teacher hears the animal
children say their lessons" an
swered Uncle Wiggily
why, the ideal" cried Nurse
Jane. You're too old, Wiggy, my
dear, to go to school. Though /
know you do sometimes help the
animal children to tell how many
lollpops they have left, if they
start with ten and give two ice
cream cones to some one. But this
is Saturday and there is no school"
ooh, so it is! l forgot!' cried
Uncle Wiggily. Never mind, III
walk along, anyhow, and maybe
III meet some of the animal chill
dren, or have an adventure"
So Uncle Wiggily walked along,
twinkling his pink nose, so he
wouldn't be lonesome, until, all of
a sudden, near the duck pond
ocean a voice called to him.
Hi, Uncle Wiggily!"
With that Toodlle and Noodle
Flat Tail, the beaver boys, climbed
out on the bank. They were drip
uing wet. for they had padded
to shore from their water house in
the middle of the duck pond ocean.
Toodle and Noodle lived in
water house-that is. it was built
in the water. The house was made
of sticks, plastered over with mud
that is, the part that stuck UP
out of the water. And to keep out
weasels and other bad animals the
front and back doors of the house
were down underneath the water
To get in their front door Toodle
and Noodle had to dive beneath the
water, as you have to dive your
hand under the water to pick up
the soap if it isn't the floating kind.
Hello, beaver boys!" cried Uncle
Wiggily in his jolly voice. Glad
to see your"
And we're glad to see you!"
DGllu loouICt do llt save IliIltotlI u
shake. Noodle shook himself, too,
as your dog does after he's been
swimming in the water to get the
stick you threw in. Toodle and
Noodle wanted to shake some
water off their fur and off their
flat tails, which they used as pad
dies to swim to shore.
."Oh, look out. Don't do that!
You're splashing water all over
us.' cried some voices, and there
stood Kittie Kat, the pussy girl,
and Tabby, her tortoise shell cous-
in, who had come on visit. 1--WE
can't bear to be welt" went on
Kittie Kat. ut makes our fur all
scraggily like
We're sorry" spoke Toodle. J
"But we can't help being wet, as
we live in a water house"
But we'll shake ourselves far
ther off," said Noodle, and then
we won't splatter you'll"
II should hope you wouldn't
mewed Tabby Kat, 1T must be
funny to live in a water house. ]
should not like it at all. We live
in very dry house." she went on,
slowly wagging her tail from side
to side. II don't call water house
very stylish" said Tabby.
"Oh, Tabby. you shouldn't say
that" whispered Kitty Kat. Tod
die and Noodle are good friends of
mine, and Uncle Wiggily likes
them, too. You may hurt Their
feelings by saying their water
house isn't stylish"
well, it isn't, and I don't like
water and / wouldn't live in a !
water houser mewed Tabby.
'sCome on, Kittie," she added.
Lets go where we won't be
splashed all over"
1--WE are very sorry" spoke up
Toodle.
"And we'll be careful not to do
IL again." added Noodle.
But Tabby walked off, with her
tail in the air, and Kittie followed
"She doesn't mean all she says
r<ittie stopped to whisper to the
beaver boys. But when the pussy
girls were gone Toodle and Noodie
felt rather bad that some one mao
spoken against their nice water
house. 1,,.o
"Never mind" said Uncle Wig
rily. I'VE can't all live in the same
kind of houses"
Toodle and Noodle, the nice
beaver boys, wet their tails in the
water and sprinkled some drops
m a muddy, clay. hill on shore'
The water made the clay slippery
and the beaver boys had fun sid
inc down hill. They didn't have
RI wait for snow and ice to have
fun coasting. Uncle Wigglly nag
a slide. too, for he didn't MIND
getting his fur wet.
All of sudden, when Ioodle
and Noodle and Uncle Wigglly were
having lots OF fun on the mud
s,ide, Kittie and Tabby came run
ming back. u,os
moh Uncle Wiggily!" they cried,
'the Skuddlemagoon is CHASING ! US:
he says he'll get our souse II a liz
can't get yours! Oh what sha'i
we do?" ,,,.n, aor.
tleman, 81 hardly know Inc
Skuddlemagoon, you say
eyes. and here l ann! cried tne
had chap, suddenly bursting
the bushes. 'Souse l wan
and souse / win have! Oh, gaia
boo-zunk!' - ga
Ha rushed at Uncle Wiggily and
The pussy girls, but Toodle ana
Noodle cried:
K Here, friends! Get on some OF
these pieces of bark. they are iarse
for boats. Get on and we
.iii ,,,rb Won to our water house
in the middle of the duck pond
ocean. You can't get in our house,
ror the doors are under water, but
tou can sit on top until the Skud-
goes away. 81
I Then, before the bad chap could
get them, Uncle Wiggily, Kittie and
Tabby got on some birch bark
boats, and the beaver boys swan
and pushed them out from shore.
,"Ha! Fooled againl No souse