Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-04-08
Bedtime Stories
For Little Ones
Copyright. 1921. by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.
UNCLE WIGGlLY AND THE
BITTER BARK.
BY Howard B. Garis

Have another carrot pancahe'
Uncle Wiggily," invited Nurse Jane
Fuzzy Wuzzy, at the breakfast Ia
BILE in the hollow stump bungalow
one morning.
NO thank you; I've had
enough" said the bunny gentle
man, pushing away his plate.
Enough" cried the muskrat
lady housekeeper in surprise.
why, you have eaten but one
cake! Try a little turnip MARINA
lade on some banana bread"
mo, I don't feel Ike it," said
Uncle Wiggily. in sad sort of
voice.
Nurse Jane looked at him sharp
ly.
"Do you know what I think ?"
asked the muskrat lady.
"Well. you you think many
things" spoke the bunny, but Just
what it is now ] can't guess"
We'll" went on Nurse Jane, 81
think that you have spring fever
and are losing your appetite!"
II don't know what I have, but
I certainly am not hungry" and
Uncle Wiggily pushed his half
filled plate farther away.
"You need tonic!" went on
Nurse Jane. Or. Postum cured
you of the rheumatism by having
me rub wintergreen oil on your
legs. Now l think I'll get him to
give you something for your appe-
tite-something to make you hun
cry. I'll go ask him what 1t
should be-"
mo. I'll go myself" offered I'm
Gle Wiggily. "Pll hop over the
fields and through the woods to
DR.. Possum's hollow tree office,
and perhaps I may have an adven-
ture on the way--or something to
make me more hungry"
"Well, perhaps 1t will do you
good" declared Nurse Jane.
So the bunny gentleman hoped
to DR.. Possum's office, but the only
adventure he had on the way was
that he met a hoptoad lady who
was ell splashed with water from
a mud puddle. An automobile CO.
ing very fast had scattered mud on
the hoptoad lady--she had no auto
of her own.
"Oh. I'm so sorry!" said Uncle
Wiggily, and with his handker-
chief he wiped the splashy spots
off the poor hoptoad lady's dress
before he hoped on to DR.. Pos
SUMS office.
YES" said the animal physi-
clan, when Uncle wiggily told him
how he felt, "you need n spring
tonic. Bitter bark for you!"
"Bitter bark" exclaimed the
bunny.
eyes, from the willow tree"
went on DIR. Postum. ION your
way back to your bungalow stop
and gather some branches from the
willow tree. That bark Is very
bitter. Take 1t home, eat some.
and you will soon be hungry"
"I hope So" said Uncle Wiggily.
Thanking DR.. Postum, Uncle
Wiggily hoped back toward his
hollow stump bungalow. On his
way through the woods the bunny
stopped at willow tree and
gnawed off some of the low
ranches.
"what are you doing. Mr.. Long
ears asked voice from the
bushes. At first the bunny thought
it was the Bob Cat or the Fuzzy
Fox, but 1t turned out to be Jackie
Bow Wow, the puppy dog chap.
"Oh, I'm taking home some Bit
ter bark to have 1t to give me an
appetite" said the bunny.
an help you carry It," offered
Jackie, so, very kindly, the little
puppy boy broke off some of the
willow branches. II know, some
thing else that willow bark is good
for" said Jackie. Uncle Wiggily
was Just going to ask what when,
all of a sudden, savage voice
cried:
"Iand know what ears are
good for! To nibble;" and with
that out sprang the Woozie Wolf.
I'm going to nibble your ears!"
"Oh, please don't!" begged the
bunny. Here, Mr.. Wolf. have
some bitter willow bark. Eat some
Of that and 1t will give you an APP
petite for something else than my
ears."
mo. MOI" howled the Wolf. He