Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-08-02
Bedtime Stories
For Little Ones
Copyright, 1920. by Mcclure News.
paper Syndicate.
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE
SQGIRTER DIAM.
(By Howard r. CARTS. }

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| gily?H asked Nurse Jane FuZz
Wuzzy one day, as she saw tn
bunny rabbit gentleman looking a
his pink nose in the glass.
Something must be wrong, an
swered the bunny. MY nose doe
[ not twinkle at all like it used to-.
LET me see!" said the muskra
| lady housekeeper, and she took
careful look. There is something
wrong" she went on uneasy like
Il think you had better go to tn
seashore for a little change
Perhaps | had" said Uncl
Wiggily. SO he and Nurse Jan
packed their satchels and wen
down to the seashore beach. The.
stopped at a birch bark bungalow
and before supper they went for ;
stroll on the shore.
AS they were walking along, wei
out of reach of the ocean wave
that rushed up on the sands, all o
a sudden Uncle Wiggily saw som,
| water squirt up, as though from
| fountain,
"Oh. lookr' cried Nurse Jane
MAYBE Sammie or Susie Littletail
or Johnnie or Billie Bushytail. o.
some other one OF the animal chill
dren is hidden under the sand
spraying water up with a rubber
ball q.
"Maybe!" agreed Uncle Wiggily
Lets go look!' =.
So he and Nurse Jane hurried
down the beach and there they saw
q clam, sitting in little hole, part
w filled with water, and the clan
was doing the squirting. He woult
take some water up in his opef
shell, and then he would close thu
two halves of his shell together
again, thus sending the water gu
and up in a regular spray,
And after doing this once o.
twice the clam gave q long. sor
rowful sigh and said:
ALAS! How unhappy ! ann!
why are you unhappy" asked
Uncle Wlggily, who, with Nurs'
Jane, had stopped on the beacf
near the shelly fellow.
Il am unhappy because can az
nothing in this world" SAID the
clam, II wish to sing or make
music, and / can do neither, SO my
friends tell me. That is why an
go unhappy" - :,
"Oh. so you want to sing, dt
you?" asked Nurse Jane.
VERY much" answered the clam
perhaps you are a singer ano
do not know it," suggested Uncie
Wiggily. why don't you try"'
would you like to hear me!
asked the clam, and he seemed
much happier. Listen ana "i'
sing for YOU" he said.
So he opened his shell, the clan
did, and he sang in a loud, colo
voice. Uncle Wiggily shuddereo
and turned to Nurse Jane.
"My friends said L could no.
sing" spoke the clam as ne iih'
ished.
.I-er-I don't want to hurt
your feelings" said Uncle Wiggiiy
"but your friends were right. dc
not believe you were meant for
aPerhaps YOU can play" said
Nurse Jane, hopefully.
~ listen to me-" said the clam
Then he grated the edges OF ms
shell together until Nurse Jane hau
TO hold her paws over her ears. IL
set her teeth on edge.
"Oh, stopl Stop! begged tne
muskrat lady. "You can not pay
either!' ~
"J thought So" sadly said the
clam. IAN l am good for Is to
SQUIRT water up in the air and what
good that does, nobody knows. on
dear!"
Uncle Wiggily was trying to think
of something cheerful to tell me
clam when, all at once, along tne
sand came the bad old Skuadle-
magoon, He had followed uncle
Wiggily to the seashore. :,
.Out of my way, you hard sheli
clam. until | get Uncle Wiggilys
souser howled the Skuddlemagooh.
"Out of my way or III Jump over
YOU! I'm hungry for rapplt ca,
souse!" went on the bad cnap, anu
with a hop, skip and Jump ne
leaned over the clam straight ior
Uncle Wiggily. But. just. as the
Skuddlemagoon jumped, the clam
messed its shells together. Out
shot a big squirt of water, rignt
in the face and all over the Sltiid-
dlemagoon. Hippo!
"oh, WOW! Oh dear me! WHATS
this?" cried the souse-eatfng chap'
as it raining?"
Never YOU mind what it is, you
let Uncle Wiggily alone! spoke
The clam. ale is q friend OF mine.
Then the squirter clam shot up
some more water, which sprayed
all over the Skuddlemagoon, hke
a fountain, and wet him throusi.
And he became so soaked WIN
water. like the sponge in the baths
tub. that he couldn't chase uneie
Xyigrily- or. Nurse Jane, the SKuddle
chan couldn't. And the bunny got
safely back to the seashore pifch
bark bungalow with the mushra'
But before they left they thank
cd the clam FOR driving away the
bad Skuddlemagoon. a.
.0There is one thing you can 40
we'll that is neither singing nor
nlavinr." said Uncle Wiggily, 'and
il is squirting water. AT thar you
are a dandy, and If we can 60 one
thing in this werld better thah
somebody else, it Is just finer
Ppm glad to know .naI, sai"
the clam. And he felt happtr.
So Il the lawn riower doesn't cut
ali the hair OFF the Chinese %
and made it look like a shaved
IN tell lou next toout
Uncle Wiggily and re clothes hhe'