Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-09-24
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE
TREE HOUSE.

TREE HOUSE.
! One day when Uncle WiggiIy
the nice bunny rabbit gentleman
was out walking, looking for al
adventure, he CHANGED to NEE
Bobby Cheerup, the robin bird boy
Bobby was scraping his feet in TIN
sand and sort of throwing littl
stones about with his beak, and h
didn't look very happy. Bobb!
didn't.
Whats the matter, Bobby p
asked Uncle Wiggily. Are you sac
| because the cherries are all gone
or do you feel badly because you
will soon have to fly down soutf
with the swallows and bluebirds? p
"Oh, it isn't that" grumbIeC
Bobby and his voice was not at al
like his usual nice. cheerful cheer.
up song, after which he was
named. IT'S the house where ]
live that l don't like" said the
bird boy. "It's up in tree, and
none of the rabbit, dog or pussy
cat boys ever come up there and
play with me. They can't climb
trees very we'll Except, of course,
the Kat boys), and they can't fly
well, but you can fly down, If
they can't fly up" said Uncle Wig
gily with jolly twinkle of his
pink nose. Think of that"
Eyes, but If don't fly down to
play with them l can't have any
fun" went on Bobby Cheerup,
whose name, just then. ought to
have been Bobby Sad Face. II
wish l lived in house on the
ground, or underground, like Bud
dy, the guinea pig boy, or even in
a hollow stump bungalow like you,
Uncle Wiggily."
"Oh, nonsense!" laughed the
bunny gentleman. I'VE animals
each live in a house best suited to
him. Nest or tree houses are best
for you birds. But l know what
| can do, Bobby, so your friends
who do not fly or climb can come
to see you more easily"
WHAT" asked Bobby, eagerly,
and he began to whistle few notes
of his best and most jolly song.
What can you do, Uncle Wig
gily?"
II can make a little ladder of a
wild grape vine" said the bunny
gentleman. you can hang this
down from your nest house in the
tree, and then the animal boys and
girls can get up to see you. only
your house is rather small, Bob
by"
ooh, I'll get my mother and
father, and my sister and brother
to build platform of leaves,
branches and twigs all around out
side of the regular nest!' chirped
Bobby, land we can have some
fun there"
"All right" said Uncle Wigg!ly.
you do that and I'll get the grape
vine ladder"
Away hoped the rabbit gentle
man to gnaw, with his strong teeth,
some strands of wild grape vine,
and Bobby, now singing his cheer
up song, flew into the tree to help
build a platform around the nest
house.
1t did not take the bunny rabbit
gentleman long to find the grape
vine, and soon he hoped back to
the robin tree. dragging 1t atter
him. Then Jacko and Jumbo Kin
kytail. the two monkey boys, came
scrambling along, and Uncle Wig
gily called to them:
"FIi there, my monkey chaps!
Please take one end of this vine
ladder up in the tree and fasten
it near Bobby Cheerup's house.
So Jacko and Jumbo did tins,
and soon there was fine ladder,
easy to climb, reaching from the
ground up to the robins nest. And
Mr.. and Mrs. Cheerup, with the
help Of their children, including
Bobby, had made a large platform,
like the one where you dance at a
picnic in the woods, all about the
nest, with a railing around so no
one would fall off. 49,.
Nov, We'll have some fun!
chirped Bobby, and he whistled
and called to all his friends to
come and see him, for now they
could get up to his nest house in
the tree, something they could not
do before.