Imperial Valley press., 1924-11-29
Bedtime Stories
BY HowARD E. GARIS
Copyright, 1928, OF Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILY AND
TOMNIIE'S TRICK

Il
the little pussy boy, the day after
| THANKSGIVING. "Come ON have a
game of tag
"0h, no!' mewed Tommie, with
a fuhy twist of his tail, I'm go
ing to do something else"
What arc you going to do!'
Jackie wanted to know. lis it
| fun 2"
"lots of fun," laughed Tommie
Nat, II IN going to play a trick
on Uncle Wiggily."
| ''What sort of triek?'' asked
Jackie. Are you going to put
| salt. instead of sugar in his carrot
eoffee!"
No, not Zaggazkly that, p" NEW
! ell Tommie, almost choking over the
hard word "'But this trick has to
do with carrot. Listen,' and he
looked around carefully to make
sure no one but Jackie heard him.
q am going to make a carrot out
of wood, and paint it yellow, just
like a real carrot Then III take it
20 Uncle Wiggily and ask him to
eat it. And when he bites on the
hard, wooden carrot-won that be
a good trick! Ha! Hail.
Hal Hal laughed Jackie, as
Tommie ran away to find piece
of wood out of which to make the
carrot. "Ha! Hail. But the more
Jackie thought of it, the more he
didn t like Tommie's trick. Gun
cle Wiggily was good to me,' bark
ed Jackie softly. +'He bought me
some nice castor oil. l don t like
tricks to be PLAYED on him. -
So while Tommie was using his
sharp claws to carve carrot out of
piece of wood he had found, and
while pussy boy was painting his
carrot yellow with the juice of some
real carrots, Jackie ran over to I'm
cle Wiggily's hollow stump bunga-
low.
.'Oh, Uncle Wiggily!' barked the
doggie boy, ''Tommie Kat is going
to play funny trick on you. He's
going TO give you wooden carrot
painted yellow and you'll bite on it
thinking it S real one.'
Uncle Wiggily winked one eye and
then he said:
Thanks for telling me, Jackie.
Now III play a trick on Tommie
instead of letting him play one on
me. You wait here Uncle Wig
gily hoped upstairs and 9Jackfe
heard him pottering around,' as
Nurse Jane called it. Then pretty |
soon, the bunny came downstairs |
with something in his pocket.
After while over to the hollow
stump bungalow came Tommie Kat
with the yellow wooden carrot,
which looked just like real one.
''See what 1 brought you, Uncle
Wiggily, mewed the pussy, holding
out the trick carrot. ''Take nice,
big bitel''
''Oh, thank you, Tommie, " laugh
ed the bunny; II III nibble your nice
carrot III minute. But here is
something l made for you-a snow
ball. Take it and throw it at
Jackie. See if you can hit him."
Uncle Wiggily handed Tommie
what seemed to be a ball of snow,
but the pussy boy no sooner took it
in his paws than he knew is was
only a make believe SNOWFALL, made
of white paper. He knew it couldn't
hurt Jackie to throw it at him, so
Tommie tossed it.
But, no sooner did he throw the
paper SNOWFALL than it opened, for
il was hollow, and from the inside
dropped a fine lot of candy.
Oh, what a dandy snowball.' -
barked Jackie.
THAT was a great trick.' mewed
Tommie in surprise.
"Wen, while you boys are eat
ing that candy Ill eat the carrot
Tommie brought mel" said Uncle
Wiggily, reaching for the yellow
thing.
no, don't, Uncle Wiggily!
Don t." mewed Tommie; "That
ism t real carrot. l made it out
of wood to fool you. But now j
don t want to play any trick. Don t
nibblo that carrot!"
And the bunny didn't, but he
twinkled his pink nose in funny
way. And Tommic never again tried
any tricks on his rabbit uncle. But
if the postage stamp doesn't slip off
and run away, leaving the letter in
the mail box all alone, / III tell next
about Uncle Wiggily and the horse
chestnuts.