Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-03
Bedtime Stories
By HOWARD E. GASIS
Copyright. 1923. ny Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE wIGGILY'S RUBBER
BOOT

Uncle Wiggily hoppcd through
his hollow stump bungalow, singing
and whistling.
"Wherc are my rubber boots,
Nurse Jane'' he asked his musk
rat lady housekeeper with low
and pollte how of his pink nose.
"Are YOU going out again -
&sked Nurse Jane, for the bunny
had only just come in, having been
! out to seek an adventure which he
didn t find.
! "No, I'm not going ont right
away" he answered. ~ just want
! to clean my rubber boots and set
them out in the sun 20 dry. When
| fhcv are dry III bring thrm IN
the house and tomorrow | will wear
them. For | think the snow will
be vory deep. by tomorrow.
'Perhaps, and maybe not. said
Nurse Jane but your boots are
under the piano, if you must know.
and it was a funny place to leave
them, if you ask me. =
every well, then laughed the
bunny, 81 II not ask You. But II
clean my rubber boots Which he
| did, setting them out in the late
! afternoon sun to dry on the back
steps.
Now while the rabbit gentleman
boots were drying in the sun along
came the bad little Bob Cat and his
mother Bob Cat. The tongue of
the bad little Bob Cat was still
smarting where Uncle Wiggilv had
put ginger on the day before. For
the bad little Bob Cat had stuck
his tongue out at the rabbit gen
tlcman.
"Oh. ma! | know how we can
play a trick on Uncle Wiggily and
nibble his ears!' whispered the
bad little Bob Cat
"How!' asked the bad big Bob
Cat.
IL hide in one of his rubber
boots. said the little chap. 81
can serouch away down in it ard
not even my tail will show, because
my tail is so little. III hide in
the boot. You go away and leave
me. When Uncle Wiggily takes his
boots in for the night he II take me |
inside in one of them, put he won I
know it. In the middle of the night !
l II crawl out, II unlock the bun
galow door, you can slip in and
we II nibble his earS
Its a good trick. Do i'll
the big bad Bob Cat. SO
the bad little Bob Cat craw,ed in I
the rubber boot and eurled up.
Now, just before it was time for
Uncle Wiggily to take his boots in
for the night. along came Uncle /
Butter, the goat, with his umbrella.
Uncle Butter carried an umbrella, |
for he didn't like to get showed on |
or rained on.
"I'n stop in and see Uncle Mig
gily for a minute thought I'm
Gle Butter. And as the goat was
going up the steps he saw the rub
Der boot outside. 'Ah, ha!
bleated Uncle Butter, who couldn I
see very well that day, q Uncle !
Wiggily has put two umbrella
stands out here. He must want me
20 leave my umbrella in one of !
them. III DO it.
"Then. thinking the rubber boots |
were stands, the goat jabb ID his |
umbrella down in the very rubber
boot where the bad little Bob Cat |
was hiding. Right into the Bob
Cat s ribs the goat jammed the
umbrella.
"wow! Wee! Squee! Squaw-
kum," howled the bad little Bob
Cat, and outof the rubber boot he
scrambled. running away and TAX
ink his silly little tail after MIN.
"Bless my pink nose! What hap
pcncd?' asked Uncle Wiggily,
coming to the door as he heard
the sereeching.
"a Bob Cat was hiding in your
umbrella stand said Uncle Butter.
"Ha. Ha! Those aren' t umbrella
stands-they'rc my rubber boots y
| laughed the bunny. "But it's
good thing you put your umbrella
| in one. F." And Nurse Jane thought
! 80, too. So if the postage stamp
doesu t try to go swimming III the
tooth paste with the bath room
sponge, II tell you next about Tn
Gle Wiggily and Jacks hole.