The Washington herald., 1920-09-25
Children S Sunrise Stories
BY Howard r. Garis
Copyright. 1920, b. Mcclure Syndicate.
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE GUMPY.

Once upon a time Nurse Jane
Fuzzy Wuzzy. the muskrat lady
housekeeper for Uncle Wiggily, was
busy in the kitchen of the hollow
stump bungalow.
What are you doing, Miss Fuzzy
Wuzzy?" asked the bunny rabbit
gentleman. as he made a low and
polite bow with his tall silk hat
while his pink nose twinkled like a
wberTy in a diamond ring.
II am making cOcoanut cake"
answered Nurse Jane.
May l help" asked Uncle wig
gily, who was always anxious to do
little things around the bungalow.
You may fix the coCoanut for
me-" answered Nurss Jane. Take
the crater and rub some of the
white pieces of Cocoanut up and
down on it. The rough crater will
shred the COCOanut nice and fine so
( l can put it in the cake"
Right gladly will I do that"
spoke Uncle WiGgily, like a moving
| picture, and, taking off his black
hat. on the back of a chair he start
ed to help Nurse Jane.
Uncle Wiggily was grating away
3
ing what a dandy cake Nurse Jane
was going to make when. all Of a
sudden, at the open window of the
Kitchen Mr.. Longears heard a voice
say:
We'll, how is your souse?"
The bunny looked up and there
he saw a funny creature. with Z
face like a jack o'lantern looking
i'm at him
"Souse? You can't have any OF
my souse" cried Uncle Wiggily. and
before he knew what he was doing
he threw the tin CRATER through
the window. right in the pumpkin
Jack o'lantern face of the bad chap
, that had asked about souse.
There, Take that" cried Uncle
Wiggily. and the funny animal gave
loud yell of ouch" and ran
away.
oh. Uncle wiggily, hope you
aren't hurt exclaimed Nurse Jane.
mo. I'm all right" answered the
bunny gentleman. But | fear ] have
| lost your COcOanut CRATER l threw
it out of the window at the pump
kin faced chap. However, it may
have fallen in the weeds. I'll see
If I can get it and finish grating
the cocoanut for the cake"
Uncle Wiggily looked among the
weeds under the window for the
crater. but it was not to be found,
Nurse Jane also helped to look, but
it was of no use. The crater was
gone.
Maybe that bad animal took it."
said the muskrat lady.
Il think not" ANSWERED Uncle
Wiggily. 1T must be hidden some
where around" But the more he and
! Nurse Jane looked the less they
found. and finally the muskrat lady
said:
We'll, must go in and finish my
cake"
And I'll take a hop to the six
and-seven-cent store and get a new
crater and then / can finish shred
ding the CoCoanut," spoke Uncle
| Wiggily.
Over the fields and through the
woods he hoped, but when he was
| halfway to the eleven-and- twelve
cent store he saw Jacko Kinkytail.
the monkey boy. picking up from
the ground some cones from a pine
tree. off which they had fallen.
Hello. Jacko!" called Uncle Wig
gily. why are you picking up the
pine cones? They are not as good
! as ice cream cones. and though I
know some birds and squirrels eat
the seeds in the pine cones l never
heard you were fond of them"
oh. l don't eat the pine tree
cones" chartered the monkey boy.
But my mother is making a cocoa
nut cake and she broke her crater.
So she sent me out to get some of
these cones. They are rough, Just
like the tin graters you buy in the
drug store, and she says I may help
her crate the cocoanut on the pine
cones and she'll give me a piece of
cake"
Fine" cried Uncle wiegily. "I
had forgotten that pine cone
would make a good crater for nut
megs or cocoanuts. I'll take some
home and help Nurse Jane finish her
cake"
Jaeko picked up what cones he
wanted, and then Uncle wigeiIy
hlled his pockets to take some to
Nurse Jane, so he might help her
finish making the cecoanut cake.
Uncle Wlggily was almost at the
hollow stump bungalow. and he was
feeling the rough, gratery pine
cones in his pockets, when, ali of
sudden, out from behind a bush
jumped the same pumpkin-faced
jack o1anter chap at whom he
had thrown the CRATER
Il want souse! / want souser'
cried the bad chap, and he was Just