Imperial Valley press., 1923-01-19
Bedtime Stories
Copyright, 1923, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
BY HOWARD X. GARlS
UNCLE W7GGILY AND THE
FROZEN BEE


where Unclc Wiggily lived, and af-
ter the birds had flown in his hol
low stump bungalow to warm the
bunny rabbit gentleman, Jack Frost
took little vacation.
That means it wasn't SO cold. The
sun shoDc warm and honey bee,
who had gone to sleep in hollow
tree, with other bees, feeling the
warm sunshine, awokc, stirred his
+, wings and buzzed:
"1t must be spring! | am going
out and gather honey from tic flow
ers, for they must be in blossom
now!
"Nonsense. Don't be silly!'
hummed the Queen Bee, who mad
partly awakened with the others
l"This is but the January Thaw,
little bee. 1t will be cold and freeze
again. in a few days. y
"Oh, | don't believe so,' buzzed
the other bee. who was one of the
F.; workers in the summer hive. ~ am
going out and gather honey from
,tbc flower blossom. -
| And no matter what the others
| said out he flew from the hollow
4 tree, down inside of which was a
/ warm bees nest.
| Well, the sun was shining bright
and warm outside. But, for all that.
/, there was snow on the ground and
] a chilling wind blew. The little bee
flew about, looking here and there
for. flowers, but none could he see,
of course.
4 Then, as the sun went down, the
air grew cold and chill, and when
night came Jack Frost hurried back
from hrs vacation at the North Pole
/ aud blew his cold breath over every
4 thing.
1 "Oh. the Queen Bee was right =
summer has not yet come!' thought
i the little buzzer. ~ must fly back
| to the warm trees!P =
| But alas! He could not find his
!, wav. And as he flew here and
! there the chill air made his winds
heavy SO that soon their buzzing
stopped. eaAA
"Oh, dear! Oh dear! Oh 900
. Dear" sighed the, cold bee, and
then, uEablc to fly farther, he curled
up IN little ball and fell on the
! woodland path, II am quite froz-
cn!' he murmured. "Quite frOzcni
! This is the end of mel! -
| About this time Uncle Wiggily
4 Topped along. lie had been over
\ 20 Grandpa 7Gander's house playing
4 Scotch checkers and was now on his
way home to eat the warm supper
1 Nurse Jane Fuzzy would have ready.
| AS Uncle Wiggily passed the place
where the frozen bee had fallen, the
bunny heard a faint buzzing of cold
wings. Looking down, Mr.. Long
ears saw the bee in the twilight aud
said:
"Poor little buzzer! He must
nave thought this was the first dav
of spring, because it was a bit warm,
and he came out of the hollow tree
hive. Well, he is still alive. |. II
ltake him home to my warm kitchen.
Nurs. Jane has few flowers there,
land may be he can live on them UNI
It'll spring really comcs.'
So Uncle Wiggily put the frozen
bee in his warm fur coat pocket and
hoped on to his bungalow. When
almost there, all of sudden, the
! Bob Cat leaped out of the bushes
crying:
''I must have ears! just must
lave ears!"
! "And I must have a sting,
must have a sting!" buzzed the bee,
who was now warm again aud quite
lively. "I'll sting you and you
can't have Uncle Wiggily's ears!''
hummed the bee.
| Flying out Of the bunny's warm
pocket, the bee stung the Bob Cat
| On his soft and tender nose.
I Wouchiel Wozie!" howlcd the
bad chap, and then lie ran away TO
find some SNOW in which to cool his
burning, stinging nose.
"Thank you, Mr.. Bee, YOU saved
my cars!' laughed Uncle Wiggilv.
But YOU had better get back in
my warm pocket again. And The
bee did, being no longer frozen. Un-
Gle Wiggilv took the honey buzzer
home and he lived on Nurse Jane 8
bungalow flowers until spring really
came. And then the bee flew back
to the hollow tree and helped make
honey.