Imperial Valley press., 1923-01-22
Bedtime Stories
Copyright, 1923, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
BY HOWARD r. GARIS
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE
IRONING BOARD
ash, Bang! Crack!'

"No, thank you," answered Miss
Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady
housekeeper. "But | happened to
set one of my smoothing irons down
too heavily on the ironing board, and
now it S broken all to pieces. ,,
What s broken" asked Uncle
Wiggily, twinkling his his pink
nose, "thc ironing board or the
iron!'
! GLOW silly! The ironing board,
of course!" laughed Nurse Jane.
"1'ho iron couldn t break-it's too
hard. But you should see my iron
ing board! It's all in pieces.
Uncle Wiggily hoped out to tho
kitchen where the muskrat lady was
working. In splinters and pieces
all about here was scattered the
ironing board.
"Oh dcar!' sighed Nurse Jane.
II don't know whatever IN going
to do about ironing your shirts and
collars. Ny ironing board is gone. y
"I1l get you n new onel' gaily
cried Uncle Wiggily, and away he
hoped to the ironing board store.
which was next door to the five and
six cent store.
With the new ironing board undcr
one paw, Uncle Wiggily started to
hop back to his hollow stump bun
gajow, But he had not gone very
far before al of sudden, he heard
voice calling:
"Uncle Wiggily, Oh, Uncle Wig
gily! Please come hcre?'
"My goodness! / hope that ism t
the Blue Nosed Babboon or the
Skillcry Scallery Alligator" thought
the bunny rabbit gentleman. But
when lie had looked around he saw
only Curly and F'loppy Twistytail,
,he two little piggio boys, leaning
from the window of their house not
far off.
"What is it, Curly and Floppy
asked Uncle Wiggily.
"Could YOU please come in and
! play with US for little while?'
asked Curly.
owe had TO stay home from
school cause we have tho snuffies
an maybe well get sore throats, -
grunted FFloppy. Am Mother has
gone to the store so we're alone,
and please couldn't you como i'll to
play with us?'
"WelI, maybe 7 could" said the
Kind Uncle WiggiIy, 50 i'll the piggie
house he went. But it was not so
easy to make fun for Curly and
Floppy as he had hoped, For the
piggic boys were cross and frctful,
having the suiffle snufflos you
| know.
Uncle Wiggily told them bedtime
stories, though really it wasn't the
| hour to go to sleep, and he played
| with all their toys but Curly and
! Floppy whined, grunted and squcal-
cd, like naughty children, and said:
"Oh, we want to have some fun!
Some real fun!"
Well, poor Uncle Wiggily hardly
Fnew what to do until he happened
to think of Nurse Jane IS new iron
ing board that he had stood up III
one corner of the piggic house.
"I'll make some fun for you with
this ironing board,' said the bunny
rabbit gentleman. First he placed
the ironing board across two low
stools, up off the floor.
"Thcre!' cried Uncle Wigglly,
twinkling his pink nose, "we II pre-
tend the board is bridge and you
piggio boys can walk across it"
SO Curly and Floppy walked
across the make believe ironing
board bridge and had fun that way.
When they became tired of that I'm
Gle Wiggily put the ironing board
flat on the floor and they all got
On and pretended it was boat.
They took long handled spoons for
cars and they rowed to Hong Kong
China, and Asbury Park, N. j. Then
when the piggie boys were tired of
that game, Uncle Wiggily put one
end of the board up ON u chair, and
the other end of the board on the
floor and he made n little coasting
hill right there in the house so the
piggie boys could slide down.
ooh, what fun re having!"
grunted Curly and floppy. And then
their mother came home with some
ice cream for them and Uncle Wig
gily could take Nurse Jane s iron
ing board home, after Mrs. Twisty-
tail had thanked him for being 80
kind to her piggie boys.
And on his way home Uncle Wig.
eily was chased by the Fuzzy Fox.
But the bunny rabbit reached the
iop of o snow covered hill and there
/ he sat down on tho ironing board,
| Ike sled and coasted all the way
TO the bottom, getting safely away
from the Fox.
"My goodness, Ironing boards
are very useful ~ chuckled Uncle
Wiggily as hc hoped inside his liol-
low stump bungalow. And if the
sunshine doesn't tickle the back
fence so it runs around front aud
plays tag with the sidewalk, II tell
YOU next about Uncle Wiggily and
iLc clofbps nius