Imperial Valley press., 1924-05-26
Bedtime Stories
BY HOWARD r. GAEIS
Copyright, 1923, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILY AND HICKORY
DICKORY

away TO flfl udn adventure.
AL of sudden the clock struck
dnc--for Il was I'm hour past noon
And, as the clock stopped striking
queer sound was heard inside the
case.
"What's that9' asked Uncle
WiggilY, giving his pink nose 4 sort
Of twinkle sideways. is the
clock broken2 Docs il need fix
ingsN
Aud just i,Aen !; little voice from
within the clock said;
y "Don t worry Uncle Wiggily.
Your clock is all right.
Hellol Who arc you!'' asked
the rabbit gentleman in surprise.
Il am Hickory Dickory, the
mouse, was the answer. ~ am
the mouse who ran up the clock,
and when the clock strikes one,
down | comet With tha. Hickory
Dickory Dock, which was his full
name, stuck his cute little head out
of the clock door.
81 hope you don t mind me stay
ing in your clock, Uncle Wiggily, -
squeaked Hickory Dickory.
Not at all answered the rab-
bit politely. "stay as long as you
like, but don t make the clock run
Backward,
ooh, / shall never do that, -
laughed the little mouse. 81 only
run when the clock strikes one!
Now | am gCing to sleep.
With that Hickory DickorY twid-
died his whiskers at Nurse Jane,
and SHUT himself up in the clock.
"Wel, must saw he is a queer
little chap!' spoke the muskrat lady
housekeeper.
g He will be company for you
while | am away advcnturlng,
spoke Uncle Wiggilv.
Then the rabbit gentleman hop
ped out, over the fields and through
the woods and he met Il little June
Bug laey who was tangled in a
piece of string e;iught on bramble
bush.
"Please help mel buzzcd the
june Bug lady.
"EOf course I'll do that! - cried
Uncle Wiggily, and soon he had
loosed her from the tankling string
Away she flew, after thanking the
rabbit gentleman.
We'll, that was Il nice little ad-
venture, said Uncle Wiggily to
himself. 81 shall now hop home
and, tomorrow, / viii look Tor an
other adventure. y
But the next day, soon after the
roon dinner, when the rabbit gen
tieman was going to hop over the
fields and through the woods, Nurse
Jane said:
"Please stay at home today, Wig
! gy, | must go shopping at the SIX
and seven cent store, and j don t
! want to leave the bungalow alone,
for some things are coming from
/ the grocery and some one must be
here TO take them in.
! "T1l be here promised tie
rabbit gentleman. 81 il 81: in my
easy chair and 90 to sleep.
So Nurse Jane started off to do
I her shopping, and Hickory Dickory,
| the mouse in the, clock called to
her:
"Good by!''
"Oh, | almost forgot about you
little Hickory!' laughed Uncle
Wiggilv, as he settled himself tic
| take a nap. The mouse crept back
in the clock, Nurse Jane .scampered
away and all was still and quiet IL
the hollow stump bungalow.
! Uncle Wiggily had Just fallci
into gentle slunlber, and his PINK
nose was twinkIing, when, all OF
sudden, the Bob Cat crept IN th(
door, which Nurse Jane had forgot
ten to close.
son, ho!n whispered the Bol
Cat, twisting his silly little tail a'
he looked 1T the Sleeping rabbit
"Oh no, | shall easily catch Uncl,
Wiggily this time!
Closer and closer to the sleeping
bunny crept the bad Bob Cat, and
just as he was going to take al
eur nibble, all of Il sudden the door
of the clock opened, and out pop
| ped the little mouse.
"Don't you dare touch Uncle
Wiggily." squeaked the mouse.
"Bah! / IN not afraid Of you.'
snarlcd the Bob Cat.
And just then the clock boomet
out the hour Of one. And Hickory
catching up q dish off the table
threw it at the Bob Cat, banging
him on the nose.
i "Ouchl Wowi Who are you ant
what happened" howled the Boi
4 Cas-.
81 am Hickory Dickory Dock
the mouse who ran UP the clock,
was the answer. "Thc clock strucl
rCnc--and | struck onc-l mean
struck vou!" laughed the mouse
I And if you don't let Uncle Wig
gily alone III throw another disi
at YOU, and then I'll strike two!-
+! And, then II strike three and
son, / II go awayl I'll go! Don
bang me on the nose aguin!' how
led thce Bob Cat, and away he ran
And Just then Uncle Wigglly &wak
ened and when he learned what haf
happened he thanked Hickory Dick
! 0fy kindly.
So you see it sometimes BRING
good luck to have L mouse IN
ciock, and Hickory Dickory Doci
tlived in the bunny's hollow stuhll
!, bungalow for many years, and va va
/ very happy
Now if the sugar spoon aoesn5
hide in the rice pudding when th'
cup of ten wants il to go to IA