Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-24
Bedtime Stories
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE TINKLE
CLCCK
Copyright, 1922, by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)

BY HOWARD II. GARIS
"What IS the matter, Nurse Jane
What's the matters' asked Uncle
Wiggily one morning, as he came down
stairs in the hollow stump bungalow
and looked at his muskrat lady house
keeper. a., ,,ot
ter replied Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy.
have your breakfast on the table, and
as soon as you eat the carrot pancakes
with lettuce marmalade on them, you
may 90 out and have an adventure. .
"Yes, thank you, that part is all.
right, - said the bunny gentleman.
"But ] am late l asked you to call
me early, so I could start out and look
for an adventure before the Fuzzy Fox
or the Woozie Wolf began searching
| for me. y
"Oh, l m so sorry!' exclaimed
Nurse Jane. 81 forgot all about call
ing you. Ny alarm clock is broken, or
| [ might have remembered.
"Then / shall get a new tinkle
| clock, or, as you call it, an alarm
clock,'' spoke Uncle Wiggily. "With a
new tinkle clock, ringing bell when
ever I want it, | can get up as early
as / please.''
"Well, get your breakfast and then
| go see abou the clock,' said the musk
rat lady, practical like.
.. So Uncle Wiggily ate the carrot pam
cakes, helping himself to a teaspoon
full of maple sugar sauce, and then he
hoped over the fields and through the
woods to find an adventure.
"But first l had better get the new
%b, h,,p 10 hin,
self, twinkling his pink nose. g may
have such a quiet adventure that |
shall fall asleep. Then the tinkle
clock would waken me-"
| So Uncle Wiggily went to the six and
seven-cent store and there he bought
an alarm clock, or, AS he called it a
"tinkler. u ssf .t
GLOW does it work. 20 he asked the
little mousie girl clerk who waited on
him. ,...et
| "You just wind it UP by this thing
in the back she said, "set the little
hand to go off whenever you want to
get up, and the tinkle clock does the
rest.'2 ge t.-'7
every good--thank you,' said Uncle
Wiggily. please wind it up for me-
i The mousie girl did this, and with
4 the tinkle clock under. his paw Uncle
Wiggily hoped along once more to
have an adventure. He was just pass
ing the Woodland Fire House, where
the Water Bugs were waiting for an
alarm to come in, when, all OF sud
len, bell began ringing, . ding a-ling'
! | a-ling!p ,.4 a.e.
Il "Hurry!" cried the Chief Water
Bug. "There goes the fire alarm!
Some poor animals house is ablaze
We must spray water on and put 1t
out Hurry. Water Bugs
"Wait u minute! Wait a minntc'
cried Uncle Wiggily, as the Fire De-
partment of Animal Land started to
rush out. ''That ism t any alarm! y
"What is it ~ asked the Chief.
cit just the new tinkle clock
bought. = said Uncle Wiggiy. "The
bell Just rang just as l reached here
; [ m sorry to cause you any trouble, .
"Oh, that S all right, said the
Chief Water Bug. "We like to &C
to fires, to put them out, when there s
any to put out. But it s just as well
there ism t any, for it isn't any fun
for Il poor animal to have his house
burncd.'
/ "That IS right agreed Uncle Wig
| civ, and he hopped on little farther
to find an adventure. And, just as, he
; came in front of the Woodland Police
station, q bell rang again" tinkle
tinklc tink!"
Out rushed Old Dog PcrciVal, the
Chief of Police. 4, u
"Quick, Police Dogsn' he barked
Some burglars may be trying to get
in Uncle Wiggily's bungalow. Hurry
and arrest them" ~.
| "Wait! Wait minutc!' cried Mr.
Longears, his pink nose twinkling very
fast. "That isn't burglar alarm
It's only my tinklc clock. | declare
that mousic girl clerk must have wound
it up wrong, for it goes off at the
wrong time all the while
"Oh, only an alarm clock?'' asked