Imperial Valley press., 1923-01-29
Bedtime Stories
Copyright, 1923, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
BY HOWARD r. GARIS
UNCLE WIGGILY,s RUHBERs

| IJJn L 20 Dil lO'itiFt bH'i W
gily," advised Nurse Jane Fuzzy
Wuzzy in the hollow stump bunga.
low one morning "Stay in and
give your pink, twinliling nose q
rest. -
| "Why so?' asked the bunny
rabbit gentleman. "Why shouldn't
/ 90 out this day and have an adj
venture, as | do every day!'
| "Oh, it's so slushy and sloshy,
answered the muskrat lady house
| keepcr. "Fnst it showed and thel
it rained and now it is just terrible
out! You'll get your paws wet and
your rheumatism will pain you.
Uncle Wiggily, who had finished
| his breakfast of carrot pancake:
with maple sugar sprinkled aroma
he edges, hoped to the window OF
bis hollow stump bungalow and
looked out. As Nurse Jane had said
| the ground was covered with waite
and snow and slush, which is mix
| turr of snow and water.
Il guess il will be al right to g
mt if-I wear my rubbers,' said Tho
bunny rabbit gentleman. 81 !
wear the nice overshoes you made
| for me, Nurse Jane, out of tn,
leaves from the rubber plant.
| con, dear!' sighed Nurse Jane
81 just know something will hap
pen to you, Uncle Wigeilv!'
And it did.
Uncle Wiggily put or his rubber
and started to hep from his hollow
stump bungalow. He had not gon
cry far, and he was thinking wha
fun it was to slisho around in tn
slush, when he heard voice.
| "Ch, yor Uncle Wiggily!' tn
Dice called.
| Quickly the rabbit gentleman
turned around. At first he though
| t might be the Fuzzy Fox or tn
Skillery Soallerv Alligator, but vine
lie looked q second time he saw Bah
Bunty, the little rabbit girl, hoppin
along after HIM.
"Why. I:aby Bunty! YO
shouldn't Re out in all this slosh
smsh!" exclaimed Mr.. Longears
"You III get your paws wet!i'
81 have on my new Christina
rubber boots,' said Baby Bunty. 90
am going adventuring with you
Uncle Wigaily. See, have penny
| Will you please take me to the Jolly
pop stora?'
"Oh, yes, Il guess So" answere,
Uncle Wiggiiy, good natured like
"Hop along
SO the bunny gentleman and III
little rabbit girl hoped along to
gsthcr until all of sudden, afte
they had crossed over rather dee
and slishy-sloshy puddle, Baby Bun
ty called out:
"Oh, Uncle Wiggily! You We los
one of your rubbers!'
"Eh! What S that?" asked NJ,
Longears, for just then his pink nos
began to twinkle and he couldn ;
ear very well.
81 say you've lost one of you
rubbers, repeated Baby Bunty
IT'S back there-stuck in tn
slush!'
| And, surely enough, one of tn
bunny's rubbers had come off hi
paw and was fast in the puddle.
ooh, | must hop back and ge
| it," said Uncle Wiggilv. Oft woul,
never do to lose one of my rubbers. ,
Back he hoped on one leg and h
put on the left paw rubber that wa
stuck in the slush. Then he hoppe,
back to Baby Bunty. But they ha,
not gone very far toward the loilv
pop store, before the little rabbi
girl called again:
"Oh, Uncle WiggiIy, now you
other rubber is stuck!'
$50 it is!' exclaimed the rabbi
gentleman. Looking back he saw hi
right paw rubber stuck in q puddl
of sloppy slush. I'm 60 back an
get it, he said, and back he hop
ped. He stuck mis- paw in the rub
b.r and tried to pull it out. At frs
he couldn't but, after . while h
did, and he hoped on a little wa,
and then, his left rubber becam
stuck again and that pulled off.
"Oh, dear, this is terrible!' sal,
the bunny uncle. "First one an,
u then the other!'
And that 8 just how it happened
No sooner did he get his left pay
rubber unstuck than his right pay
rubber would become stuck. An,
when his right paw rubber was I'm
stuck then his left paw rubbe
would come off.
Nurse Jane was right!' sighe,
Uncle Wiggily. - never shout,
have come out in al. this slush.
"And that isn't the worst
cried Baby Bunty. "See, the Fo,
is coming! Run! Run!'
But Uncle Wiggily couldn t run
because his rubbers kept sticking il
the slush. And the Fox would hav
caught him, except that just thel
along came Curly and Floppy Twis
tytail, the piggie boys, wearing rub
Der boots and dragging their sle'
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