South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-01-08
By HOWARD R. GARIs


some more candy for them. You'll
have trouble all right"
Uncle Wiggily looked across the
snow covered field Surely enough
some squirrel, rabbit, puppy dog,
pussy cat, goat and chicken children
were hurrying toward the hollow
stump bungalow. And as they came
near they sang:
Murray for Uncle Wiggily,
He surely is a dandy!
He's good 10 all US girls and boys,
And he makes lovely candy"
You're in for it now!" laughed
Nurse Jane.
"Oh, let me hidel Let me slip out
the back door! Tell them I have
the epizootic-or something. I
haven't time TO make candy todayl"
exclaimed the bunny. Il didn't think
they'd all come back because 1 made
a little soft candy for Toodle!"
But it was too late. Before Uncle
Wiggily could run or hide, the
laughing, happy, joyous animal boys
and girls were crowding into the hol-
low stump bungalow.
"Oh, Uncle Wiggily!" they cried.
Make US s. candyi"
Well, there was no help for It.
Uncle Wiggily had to laugh and
twinkle his pink nose. Then he put
on some old clothes and went down
to the kitchen to make candy for his
little friends.
Don't make the sticky kind"
begged Baby Bunty, the cut-up little
rabbit girl I'VE want TO talk and
eat candy at the same time, and we
can't II the candy is so sticky it
CLUES our teeth shut"
"Au right" laughed the bunny
I'll make some hard candy now, in
stead of soft candy"
with nuts int" begged Johnnie
Bushytail, the squirrel. I'll bring
you some nuts and you can put nuts
in the hard candy. Uncle Wiggily.
MY brother Billie will bring some
nuts. also. We love nut candy"
"Al right-Ill make it," promised
Uncle Wiggily. So while he put on
the stove to boil the molasses, sugar
scampered home and soon came
back with some hard, round hickory
nuts.
"Myl" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily,
as he felt OF the hard nuts. These
will never do for candy!"
"Oh, we have to crack off the
shells!" chartered Johnnie. You
get the candy all ready Uncle Wig
gily, and Wen crack the nuts for
you and take out the meats, which
are the good parts"
SO the bunny stirred the boiling
candy while the squirrel brothers
cracked the nuts and took out the
meats. putting them in one dish and
the hard, sharp shells in an other
dish.
While Uncle Wiggily went in the
other room a minute. to get some
vanilla with which TO flavor the
candy, leaving 1t boiling on the stove,
and with the nut meats and shells on
the table nearby, all at once the door
opened, and in came the WoOzie
Wolf.
"Ah. hal" shifted the Wolf. as he
smelled the boiling candy. Some
thing good Is going on here! Candy
making-nut candy, too! Well, if
there's one thing I'm more fond of
than another it's nut candy 1 guess
I'll eat some of the nut meats first,
and wait until the candy is made.
Then I'll eat some of that and then
I'll eat a few nibbles off Uncle Wig
gily's ears. Yes. first I'll eat the nut
meats!"
The Wolf reached over and picked
up one Of the plates. He opened his
mouth real wide. and poured into it
what was on one plate, chewing as
hard as he could chew.
Then the Wolf gave a howl and
cried:
"Oh, I must have chewed some
hard candy by mistake, oh my
teeth! Oh. what shall I do?
must go TO the dentist's!" And away
he ran out of the bungalow as the
animal children entered the kitchen.
Did he take our candy?" asked
Baby Bunty.
NO" answered Uncle Wiggily.
He chewed a lot of the hard. empty
nut shells. 1 guess he broke off a
lot OF his teeth! But so much the
better for me-he can't nibble my
ears!"
Then Uncle Wiggily finished max
ing the hard candy, putting IN the
good nut meats, and the animal chill
dren said it was just fine. And the
old Wolf had toothache for a week.
But II the ball Of yarn doesn't play
tag with the knitting needles and
get all tangled up on the pussy cats
tail IN tell you next about Uncle
Wiggily and the red ink.