Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-15
Bedtime Stories
Copyright, 1923, by McClure
Newspaper Syndicate
bT HOWARD R. GARIS
UNCLE W1GGILY AND AUNT
EETTIE

! II wish You wouldn t do that, g"
she said.
! Uncle Butter.
/ "Twiddle your whiskers,'' an
swered the lady goat. lit makes
lne think YOU are chewing gum.
"All right-I1l stop promised
/ Uncle Butter Il mean III stop
/ twjddling my whiskers,'' he added.
q don :. have to stop chewing
gum.
"Why not?" askedAunt Lettie.
because | haven't started to
chew it, - chuckled the goat. "But
Speaking of gum, Aunt Lettie, have
YOU any apple pie2'
Apple pie' No said the goat
lady. but, if you like, l II make
YOU one. -
Il should love it, above all
things bleated Uncle Butter, and
he felt so happy he began to twid-
die his whiskers up and down again,
until Aunt Lettie said:
"Oh, l wish you wouldn t do
thdt-It makes me so nervous.'
Il beg Your pardon-I forgot =
blcated Uncle Butter. "I1l go out
and get some cheese to have it
ready when YOU bake the apple
pie he added Then putting on
lis rubber boots, for it looked like
lain, the gentleman goat hoped
over the fields and through the
woods
Aunt Lettie went out into the
kitchen 10 start making the apple
pie. and the first thing she noticed
was tha5 there were ne apples.
II can make an apple pie with
cut apples, unless | use carrots, and
they aren't half as good,'' she
said. 81 know what | II do. IL
go over to Uncle Wiggily's hollow
stump bungalow and borrow some
apples of Nurse Jane
Aunt Lettie put on her shawl and
Ter bonnet, and, so that her bon
ret would not blow off her head, she
stuck long, sharp hat pin through
it. | mean she stuck the hat pin
through the bonnet and through her
hair-not through her head-that
would have been dreadful, wouldn t
it?
With her bonnet and shawl and
long, sharp hhtpin, Aunt Lettie went
over the fields TO the hollow stump
bungalow, int ending to borrow SOM.
apples from Nurse Jane.
But when the goat lady knocked
with her horns on the door, and
very politely she knocked, to be
sure, Uncle Wiggily opened it.
"Oh, how nervous you make me
feel!' bleated Aunt Lettie. Il
was expecting Nurse Jane and here
you are!'
"Yes, 1 didn't go adventuring
today" said the bunny gentlemaE
twinkling his pink nose. Nurse
Jane has gone to the movies, but
she will soon be home again. Won I
YOU come in and waltz he invit-
ed.
"Well, / just came to borrow
some apples to make Il carrot short
cake-no. / mean l came after
shortcake to make a cheese pie.
Oh. what do | mean?' cried poor
Aunt Lettie. ~ m, so nervous!
OH"
"Do come in and sit down and
I'll make you cup of tea, offer
ed Uncle Wiggily. ~ II make you
sassafras tea-that 5 very good for
nervousness.
"Thank you'" bleated the lady
goat. "Uncle Butter kept twiddling
his whiskers at me and | sent hin'
cut and | SAID I'd make him an
apple pie, but there are no apples
N the house, SO l came to borrow
some"
"Nurse Jane will be most happy
to lend YOU some apples, said Tn
Gle Wiggily. Now you just sit
quietly in your chair and II make
the sassafras tea. -
Uncle Wiggily hoped here and
there about the hollow stump bun
galow, boiling the water for the tea,
and, all of a sudden, Aunt Lettie
cried out:
"Oh, how nervous l ami" bleat-
ed Aunt Lettie.
"'Don' I be nervous, Aunt Let
tie!D barked the Fox, as in he
Hoped. "I IN not after you, | Just
came to nibble Uncle Wiggily s
cars!"
Dear met IN getting more
and more nervous all the while! J.
bleated the goat. She put up one
hoof and took from her bonnet the
long, sharp hat pin from her bon
net. Then she stuck the hat pin
in the leg of the Fox.
"Hi therei Ouch!! Wow. What
are You doing?" howled the Fox,
rubbing his leg. =.
"Oh, m So nervous don t
quite know what ] am doing!
bleated Aunt Lettie And she pull
ed the long, sharp hat pin from the
leg Of the Fox and stuck it in his
nose.
couch, Wow!" howled the Fox.
"Say, if you do this when you re
nervous, what do you do when you
aren't? This is no place for me!
and out of the bungalow he ran.
"'Thank you, Aunt Lettie, you
saved my ears!" laughed Uncle
Wiggily Then he gave the lady
goat some sassafras tea and she was
nervous no longer. And when Nurse
Jane came home she gave Aunt Let
tie the apples. So all was well.
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