Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-01-24
Bedtime Stories
Copyright, 1923, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
BY HOWARD r. GARIS
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE
BLUETNG

"You ii never 20 out today, Uncle
Wiggily,' said Nurse Jane, the
muskrat lady housekeeper, rs she
looked from the window and saw
the suowflakcs being piled up i'll big
drifts.
"Of course IN going out today,
jamie, my dearl'' cried the bunny
rabbit gentleman, with twinkle of
his pink nose. ~ day when it
SHOWS is one of the best days for
having adventures.
every well, then" sighed Miss
Fuzzy Wuzzy. "lf you will, why
you will, and | can t stop you. And
as long as you are going out will
you get me something from the
storc?'
II will do that with pleasure, y
THANK you,' said Nurse Jane.
"What do you want?' asked
Uncle Wiggily.
Blueing," answered the musk
rat lady. ~ want some squares of
blue to mix up in the water when
| put clothes through for the last
time
my goodness! Will | have to
wear blue shirts and collars.' ask
ed Uncle Wiggily, and he was SO ex-
cited that his pink nose twinllled
backward.
Don't be silly!' laughed Nurse
Jane. - put only u little of the
blue color in the rinsing water. it
makes the clothes winter and keeps
them from getting yellow
"Oh, all right" said Uncle Wig
gily. "Iil get you the chunks OF
blueing. | wouldn' t want to wear
yellow shirts and collars any more
than l would want them pink, blue
or green.'
So Uncle Wiggily put on his rub
Der boots and his fur coat and out
into the snow storm he hoped, to
have an adventure, as he hoped
and also to get Nurse James chunks
of blueing. And both things hap
pened to the bunny rabbit, as 1 shall
tell you.
All Of sudden, as Uncle Wiggily
was hopping along, he heard u voice
saying:
"Oh, dear! Oh, dear! I'm stuck
and III never get OUT"
"Oh, ho!" said Uncle Wiggily to
himself. eff that is the Blue Nosed
Babboon or the Skillery Scallery Al
iigator stuck in the snow they may
stay stuck for all Of me! Pm not
going to have them nibbling my
ears"
But when Uncle Wiggily looked
second time he saw that it was
Baby Bunty who was stuck in a
snow drift.
"Oh, Baby Bunty! You shouldn It
have come out in storm like this!o
cried Uncle Wiggily, as he pulled
the little rabbit girl from the snow
drift.
"Wcll, you're out in it," said
Baby Bunty, laughing a little.
That's different" spoke Uncle
Wiggily. 81 had to come out to get
Nurse Jane some blueing and have
an adventure
Well, you've had the adventure
by pulling me from the sHow!o said
BABY Bunty as a cold flake melted
on her little pink nose. "And now
II come with you while you get
the blueing."
IAN right" sighed Uncle Wig.
glly, for he knew there would be
trouble. And there was. BABY
Bunty's legs were so short that she
was always getting stuck in snow
drifts, and Uncle Wiggily had to
pull her out. But at last thev
reached the store and bought the
blueing.
On the way home through the
NOW storm, all of Il sudden. the
Woozic Wolf sprang out from be.
hind a bush and howlcd:
~ want ears to nibblc!D
"Plcasc don't nibblc mime mr.
Baby Bunty s" begged Uncle Wig
gily.
eyes ] shall" snarlcd the Wolf,
and Uncle Wiggily didn't know
what to do until Baby Bunty wills
pcrcd:
Give me a cake of the blucine, >,
and when Uncle Wiggily gave it to
her, Baby tossed the blue cake of
color into a snow bank not far
away. The snow melted the blucine
ana made big patch of blue on
the white.
con, look, Mr.. WOLF" suddenly
cried Baby Bunty, pointing. "Your
friend, the Blue Nosed Babboon,
must be under that snow bank OF
course, he wasn't at all, but Babv
Bunty pretended he was. And when
the Wolf saw the patch of blue ON
the snow the bad animal howlcd:
"Oh, surely enough! NV friend
The Blue Nosed Babboon, is under
the snow. | must dig him out and
then Wen both nibble ears.n
The Wolf began to dig in the
snow, where there wasn't any Bah
boon at all, aud while the Wolf was
making the snow fly Uncle Wig.
aily and the little rabbit girl hoped
safely home with the other cakes of
blueing. So everything came out
all right, you see, and if the potato
pudding doesn t hide in the ice box
to tease the sugar bowl, | III tell YOU
next about Uncle Wiggily and the
pine cones.
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