Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-04
Bedtime Stories
Copyright, 1923, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
BY HOWARD r. GARIS
UNCLE WIGGILY AND RUN
AWAY BUNTY


newspaper i'll the hollow stump bun
galok. Il don't know what I'm
going to do with her
What s the trouble nowo' ask
ed the rabbit gentleman, twinkling
his pink nose because little fly
wanted TO sit on it and get warm.
"lt S Baby Bunty, answered
the muskrat lady housekeeper. "She
has run away againi
"Run away again. exclaimed
Uncle Wiggilv. ''Do you mean to
say she has run away before''
"Oh yes, many times replied
Miss Fuzzy Wuzzv. 81 didn't tell
YOU about it, for | didn't want you
to worry, but Baby Bunty is get
ting to be regular runaway and
| can I seem to stop her.
"Hum,' said Uncle Wiggily.
And then, once again, he said:
"Hum.'
Tna5 meant he was thinking very
hard.
- shall have to do something
to teach Baby Bunty not to run
away so mueh,' he said, after a
while.
"I wish you would,' sighed
Nurse Jane. Then che started out
to hunt the lost, runaway Baby
Buntv. And where do you think
she was found2
Away off under the mulberry
bush making mud pies with Kittie
Kat, the pussy girl.
Baby Buntv, why do you run
away SO much?' asked Nurse Jane
sadly as she led the little rabbit
girl back to the hollow stump bun
galow.
"I don t know-.iust for fun, |
guess laughed Baby Bunty.
''Well, it ism t any laughing mat
ter for me- said Nurse Jane. "You
must not run away again, Bunty." "
''No m, | won IT, said Baby
Bunty. But as she always said
this and nearly always ran away
again next day, you eouldn t put
much trust in her.
Baby Bunty was a queer little
rabbit girl. She was an orphan,
like "Orphant Annie" and she
used to live, in turn, at the homes
of the other animals where she
washed an wiped the dishes an
put til cups away
Baby Bunty was very cute, sweet
and lovable, but she had this one
fault-she would run away. No
matter at whose home she was stay
ing-whether at Uncle Wiggily S
bungalow or at the cave of Mr..
Whitewash, the jolly polar bear,
Baby Bunty would run away.
50 must do something, to cure
her, thought Uncle Wiggily when
Nurse Jane brought the little tyke
home after her last trip. ~ must
teach Bunty a lesson
Uncle Wiggily thought about if
for long time and them made up
plan, telling none about it.
''I'll dig hole at the end of
the garden said the rabbit gen
tleman to himself, for it is there
that Bunty most often runs to when
she runs away. And I'll hide my
self in the hole. Then, when Bun
ty comes along, running away as
she is sure to do sooner or later,
III call 'Boo!' at her.
"When l cry 'Boo!' from the
hole where | am hidden this will
make Bunty stop and think. And ii
she stops and thinks she won't run
away. 1t S good plan, m sure. -
So Uncle Wiggily dug deep hole
in the soft dirt at the end of his
garden, and in the hole he hid him
self the next day. There he waited
for Baby Buntv to come so he
might cry 'Boo!' at her.
But the funny part of it is that
after he had crawled into the hole
Uncle Wiggily fell asleep. He
meant to stay awake, but it was
I so warm and cUzy in the hole that
/ he fell asleep.
/ Soon after Uncle Wiggily had
+ fallen asleep III the hole, Baby Bun
! ty started to run away again. She
slipped softly off the front porch
and tiptoed down the garden. AT
] the lower end she saw hole.
''Oh, | wonder what s in the
hole?' thought Baby Bunty. "Ill
poke big stick down the hole and
find out" So Baby Bunty poked
Il big stick down in the hole. She
poked the stick and she twisted the
stick and she jabbed the stick and
| then, all of sudden, out of the
mole popped the Fuzzy Fox.
"Hi vi" Wiped the Fox. "What
do you mean by poking, jabbing and
twisting me with stick hid in
the hole TO get Uncle Wiggily, and
you poked me out, Baby Bunty!
Oh, how you poked me right in the
ribs. And you jabbed me On my
nose.
~ IN glad | did," laughed Baby
Bunty and when she shook ier
big stick ut the Fox, away he ran.
''Ho! Ho!" laughed Baby Bunty,
and when she laughed Uncle Wig
gily, in his hole, awakened.
''BOo! Boo!" cried the bunny
{ rabbit gentleman, but Bunty only
laughed harder and said:
''Pooh! You can I scare me! |
wasn't scared of the Fox, so | m
not scared of you. Uncle Wiggily!
Ho! Ho."
And Uncle Wiggily was very
much surprised when he heard what
had happened while he was asleep.
But Baby Bunty was very good
she didn't run away any more that