The Washington herald., 1920-03-24
CHILDREN'S
SUNRISE STORIES
UNCLE WIGGILY AND
JOHNNIE UTNEY.
BY HOWARD n. GARIs

Uncle wiggily, will you please
let me take your knife?" asked
Johnnie Bushytail. the squirrel boy,
of Mr.. Longears, the rabbit gentle
man, one day.
you must be careful not to cut
yourself, NY little squirrel boy"
spoke the rabbit gentleman. What
are you going TO make?" he asked
as he took out his sharp cutter and
let Johnnie take IL.
II don't exactly know yet" re-
piled Johnnie, but Squeakie-Eekie,
the little cousin mouse, is i'll and l
want to make something to amuse
her."
THAT is very kind of you, I'm
sure" said Uncle Wiggily. as he
kept on reading his cabbage leaf
newspaper. You make whatever
you are going to make for Squeakie-
Eekie, my boy, and when you have
finished / will come out and look at
it. But be careful not to cut your
self with my knife"
Johnnie went out in the wood
sned, whistling. When Johnnie
reached the shed he picked up some
long, round, smooth sticks, and be-
gan to fit spools on the ends.
"They go around just like
wheels cried Johnnie as he spun
them with his paw. They really
are wheels. And now, If l had a
! box, or something to put on top Of
| the wheels / could make a little
| wagon, and give -Eekie a
ride. Oh, l know what I'll make.
I'll make a jitney!" went on John
! ME. "Squeakie- -Eekie will like a
jitney.
And a jitney that 1 can pull her
around in will be Just fine!" said
Johnnie.
So that is why he had borrowed
Uncle Wiggily's knife. and why he
| had asked Nurse Jane for the
empty spools.
| What / need next is a box to put
on the spools so Squeakie- Eek lie
| will have place to sit down"
| thought johnnie.
"Oh. 1 know what 1 can get" he
| suddenly said. It's in the front
| hall. 1t will be just the thing"
! Johnnie ran to the front hall and
was soon back in the woodshed,
whistlinE away harder than ever
! and working away at the little jit-
ney for Squeakie- Eekie.
! 1t was not long after this that
! Uncle Wiggily finished reading the
paper Then he stretched his
paws, gave his pink nose a twinkle
or two and said:
81 am going out. Do you want
! anything, Mrs. Bushytail?"
"If you wouldn't mind stopping
at the and IL cent store" said
Mrs. Bushytail, the squirrel mother
of Johnnie and Billie, I'D like a
new piano for supper. Our old one
! is broken and IL is much more
cheerful to have music with ones
meals
1T certainly is" agreed Uncle
Wiggily. Il shall get you an H.
cent piano with the greatest OF
pleasure"
HAS anyone seen my tall silk
hat?"
why, it was on the front hall
| rack a moment ago" answered
! Nurse Jane.
We'll. 1t isn't there now," said
the rabbit gentleman. My old bat
tered hat is there-the one / let
Johnnie and Billie peg snowballs
at yesterday, but my good, nice.
new. shiny, tall silk hat is not
| there"
"oh, it must be-" said Mrs. Bushy-
| tail. 81 saw it myself"
well. the hat must he some
where, I'm sure" said Nurse Jane.
We'll look all over"
! So they looked all over and even
! down cellar and under the beds and
in the icebox, but no hat was TO
! be found.
Out to the woodshed they went.
The squirrel boy was whistling
harder than ever. He looked up
when Uncle Wiggily. his mother
and Nurse Jane stood near him.
Look at the nice jitney I made
for Squeakie-Eekie," said Johnnie.
'T, made 1t out of four empty
spools, some pieces of wood and
Uncle wiggily's old tall silk hat
| the one he let US throw snowballs
at"
Uncle Wiggily's pink nose twin
killed. and sneezed, he was so sur
prised. Nurse Jane and Mrs. Bushy-
! tail didn't know what to say. And
then Uncle Wiggily cried:
"Oh, Johnnie! You have taken my
best silk hat for your jitneyw and
so the squirrel boy had. In his
| hurry he had taken the wrong hat
| from the rack. And, oh. how badly
| he felt. for he knew Uncle Wig
gily's tall silk hat cost a lot of
| money.
Here. you take my old hat for
| the jitney and give me that" said
Uncle Wiggily.
So Johnnie pulled the pieces OF
wood out of the holes he had
punched in the hat. and he took of
the wheels he had nailed on, and
he pried off the handle he had made
to pull it by. And besides the
holes. and though the silk was
ruffied up some, the hat wasp't