Imperial Valley press., 1924-03-20
Bedtime Stories
Copyright, 1923, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
BY HOWARD r. GAR1S
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE
RUNAWAYS

one morning. "Get up, please!
| Time to go TO school! -
The little piggie boys turned
over in their warm straw bed.
! "Say, / don I wan. to get up!
! grunted Curly.
"'Neither do T." grunted Floppy.
~ don t want to go to school
either.
"That's the way I feel whis-
pered Curly. "Oh, Flop! III tell
you what let s doll he went on.
WHAT" asked the other listle
pig boy.
"Let's run away from scnOol9'
Run away from school? Where
win we run to9 How can we do
it9'
Like this went ,on Curly,
sliding out of bed. "Wc II GO down
stairs and have our breakfast. Then
we II start off just as if we were
going TO school. But we won t go!
We II run away!'
"Run away where?' asked Flop
py.
"To the woods. Is's getting
warmer now--soon it will be spring.
Perhaps in the woods, we may find
some mushrooms or trufflcs and we
can dig them up with our rubbery
noses. Let s run away to the
woodSl''
So the two little piggie boys,
not telling their dear lady pig
mother anything abou. it, became
runaw%vs. They pretended to go
TO the hollow stump school. But !
they only went 4 little way toward /
it. /
Then, with their books under ]
their fat listle front legs, Curly /
and Floppy turned down a side !
path and soon were in the woods.
AS Curly had said, the day was
lovely, the sun shining bright and
warm, though of course it was too
early, in the place where the piggie !!
boys lived, to find mushrooms and !
truffles.
"Say, this is fun! isn't it''
grunted Floppy, when he and his |
brother were sitting on log un- /
der a sassafras bush.
"It's a lot better than going to !
school, = grunted Curly. 81 IN never
going back to the Lady Mouse
Teacher.
"Neither am l, said Floppy. lie /
was just going to toss away his
books when, all of a sudden, he |
and his brother heard noise in the |
bushes-a rustling, rafting sort of
Il noise.
clark, What's that9' whisper
ed Floppy.
81 don't know-maybe it, the
Bushy Bear whispered Curly.
They were just getting ready to
run-they would even have been
glad to run to the Hollow Stump
School just then-when along the
path came Uncle Wiggily LOngears.
"Ah, good morning, piggie
boys!" cried the jolly rabbit gen
tleman, twinkling his pink nose. 81
am glad to see you. So you have
brought your school books out here
to study your lessons! All, that is
a very good idea! wish my teach
er had let me do that when / was
a young rabbit. Your Lady Mouse
is very kind. So she sent you out /
here in the woods to study your
books; did she' Well, now, l will
hear your lessons!"
Curly and Floppy looked in sur
prise at each other. What could /
they do' What could they say'
Uncle Wiggily did not seem TO |
know that they had run away from
school. He seemed to think they |
were out in the woods because the |
Lady Mouse Teacher had sent them. /
Wasn't it dreadful'
"Well, now Floppy, II hear your
spelling lesson first" went on the !
rabbit gentleman, sitting down on |
log near the piggie boys. 81
suppose you have had time to study, /
since you came out here TO the
woods instead Of going 10 school.
Spell me the word corn, Floppy."
AS Floppy was very fond of corn,
he easily spelled it. He could spell |
corn on tho cob, popped corn, but
tered corn and sugar corn.
every good, Floppy," said Tn
Gle Wiggily smiling. ~ shall tell !
the Lady Mouse Teacher that you |
knew your lesson very well. Now |
| am going to try Curly on his num- |
Der work. Give me your arithmetic
book, Curly
Curly handed it to the bunny.
Oh, how queer those piggie boys |
felt TO think that Uncle Wiggily |
thought they were doing right to
be there in the woods.
How many are three apples and |
two apples, Curly?" asked the rab-
bit gentleman.
"Five apples" answered Curly,
for he was very fond of them.
"Right!" cried the bunny uncle.
~ shall tell the Lady Mouse
Teacher that you knew your lesson,
Curly. And now
81 Yes, and now / am going to-
nibble your ears!" suddenly grow
led savage voice, and out of the |
woods rushed the Black Bushy Bear.
Throw your hard spelling book |
at him, Floppy." cried Curly. !
Throw your spelling book at the
Bear and I'll throw my arithmetic !
with all the hard examples I'M"
SO the piggie boys threw their
hard school books At the Bear, hit