Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-26
Bedtime Stories
Copyright, 1928, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
BY HOWARD r. GARIS
UNCLE WIGGILY'S CABBAGE
PATCH


nv, as he twinkled his pink nose in
front of the FIRE, for it was cold,
it was. | mean the pink nose was
cold, not the fire. For the fire
! was rosy and warm.
"Will You please bring me home
head of cabbage when you finish
having your adventure <oday'' ''' ask
ed the muskrat lady housekeeper.
"a nice, round head of cabbage is
what l want.
"And l shall have pleasure in
! bringing it to yCu,' answered Mr.
Longears. u suppose you are go
ing TO make a molasses pie of to-
lie asked joking like.
"Indeed | am not,' declared
Nurse Jane. 81 am going to make
an apple dumping. So, mind you,
bring me good head of cabbage. =
"I1l bring curly head prom
ised Uncel Wiggily, and soon he was
| hopping over the fields and through
the woods on his way to look for
an adventure and, at the same time,
get the head OF cabbage for Nurse
Jane.
Uncle Wiggilv found the ad
venture first. 1t WASH t very much
of an adventure. He saw "a, poor
mud turtle lady trying to crawl in
= warm hole where she might stay
all winter. The mud turtle lady
was going into the hole backward,
as she often did.
Uncle Wiggilv Saw the old mud
turtle lady, with her head sticking
from the hole, and the rabbit gentle
man, thinking she was trying to get
cut of the hole. cried:
''Wait a minute! II help you
out!'' He took hold of her and be-
gan to pull.
"Stop! Stop, beg of you!" crie'.
the mud turtle lady. - don t want
q get OUT of the hole, want to
get IN to stay all winter. Push me
IN, if you please! Don't pull me
QUIT"
''Oh, 1 beg your pardon-my mis-.
take,' said Uncle Wiggily. Then
he pushed the mud turtle lady in
the hole and she thanked him. SO
the bunny, having had his adven
ture, hoped on to get the head of.
cabbage for Nurse Jane.
He found a fine, smooth, round
head, growing in a field and took
it, as no one else wanted it. On the
way home with the head of cabbage
Uncle Wiggily began 70 feel sleepy
Reaching a big log that rested on
bed of dried leaves the bunny
gentleman sat down, put his own
head on pillow of some other dried
leaves and put the cabbage head
up on the log. Then Uncle Wiggi-
! lv went to sleep.
| Now, while lie slept along came
Billie and Mantle Wagtail, the goat
children. They had beep TO school
and Billie had with him his box Of
colored paints and brushes.
''Oh. look, there's Uncle Wiggi-
| ly asleep with cabbage head on
| the log.' softly bleated Mamie.
''Oh, ho' silently laughed Bill
lie. 81 know how we can play a
good joke on Uncle Wiggily.'
"rWnl it hurt him?" Mamie
wanted to know.
"Not a BIZ, . answered Billie.
"He will only laugh
"What is the joke?'' asked his
sister.
''I will paint Uncle Wiggily's
face on this smooth head of cab
bage,' bleated Billie. When he
awakens and sees it Uncle Wiggily
will laugh. -
eyes, / guess he will" said
Mamie. And she had to laugh
when, little later, Billie took his
raints and made rabbit face on
The head cf cabbage. The cabbage
was up on the log, and Uncle Wig
eily, who was asleep beside it,
never heard th: goat children
"'There, now we II hide and see
what happens, said Billie, when
the cabbage head face was finished,
lie put away ais paints and brush
es and he and Mamie hid in . the
| bushes.
Pretty soon, all of sudden, along
came the Fuzzy Fox and the Woo
zie Wolf. They slipped out of the
bushes and the Fox, seeing the
painted face on the head of cabbage
of the log, said;
"Look, Mr.. Wolf, There is I'm
Gle Wiggily! Now we can easily
Get him and hubble his ears. -
"But ! don Z see his ears whis-
pered the Wolf. 81 see his head
all right, but v here are his ears?'
"Perhaps he has taken them off
aud put them in his pocket, =
whispered the Fox. "But 10 mat
ter. Come on: wen jump on his
head and catch him before he sees
US. ..
So the two bad chaps jumped
right on the cabbage head, thinking
il was Uncle WIggily. They caught
the head of cabbage in their paws
and, Oh! how surprised they were
hen they fouhd they were fooled.
WOwl Wow howled the Fox.
"Gurrl Gurr!' growled fhc Wolf,
and with their sharp teeth AMI
claws back 10 the woods they ran,
the cabbage head with the painted
face rolling of the log on top
of Uncle Wiggily.
"What 3 this? Wha. Is this2'
cried the bunny, hopping up sud
denly. "Oh, have two faces2" he
cried as he saw the cabbage one.
Then Billie and Mamie came laugh
| is,g from, the bukl,pe ard told ahotT