Imperial Valley press., 1924-03-26
Bed Time Stories
UNCLE WTGGILY AND THE
PIG S BASKET


bungalow to hop to the woods
where he thought he might find an
adventure.
Perhaps you may have q funny
one today, called Nurse Jane Fuz-
"a Wuzzy after him.
~ hope | may" answered the
bunny uncle. u don t much care
to hav" the SbH'ery Scallery Ali
gator chase me-
So Uncle Wiggily hoped along,
over the fields and through the
woods, and Nurse Jane began to
scrub the front steps with a piece
Of saTd paHcr on the end Of her
tail. For she expected company in
the afternoon and she wanted the
steps nice and clean.
Well, the rabbit gentleman was
skipping along, now and then stop
ping TO look in a spring Of water
to see if his pink nose was wink
| ling right side up, when, all of n
sudden, he heard n noise behind the
bushes.
The noise was a voice crying:
"nh dearl )h. dear! Oh, dear!
"That sounds like trouble, -
whispered Uncle Wiggily to himself.
II must take look, and if ii ism I
the Fuzzy Fox or the Woozic Wolf
will see what can do to help
SO the r.hbit gentleman peered
through the bushes and, sitting on
a too he saw Mr.. Twistysail, the
gentleman pig.
"Uh, der. On, dear! dear! Oh,
dear, dear, dear.' grunted Mr..
Twistytail, the gentleman pig three
times, just like that.
Whatever is the trouble?' ash,
ed Uncle Wiggiiy. popping his way
through the bushes.
Mr. Twist, ail stopped gruutug
and looked . the rabbit.
- have lest my basket that WIS
filled with corn cakes for my wife! -
sighed The pig.
Lost your basket? How WAS
that?" asked the bunny and he
. sat down behind Mr.. Twistytail ON
| the log. How did it happcn?"
"Oh, il was most strange and
mysterious" grunted the pig. 81
had been TO the store to buy bas-
kot full of corn cakes for my wife.
MIS-. Twistytail is very fond of corn
cakes. Carrying my basket home
| ! became tired and / sat down on
this log to rest myself. | may have
/, closed nv ewes for a moment, 10
sleep a little, though it could not
have been more than a second or
two. But when ! opened my eyes
my basket w;s gone and al MY
wifc's corn cakes in it,.
"That is too bad, said Uncle
Wiggily. 'But perhaps your bas-
ket has just fallen behind the log. -
fs"No, it didn tt looked!' grunt-
ed the pig. And whea Uncle Wig
F, gill looked no basket could he see.
1T just disappeared as if fairy
came and got it," gruntcd Mr.,
/ Twi. ytail. And now IN 3fraid
to 90 home, Oh, dear! Oh, ftar,
dcar Oh, dear, dear, dcar / IN
| 50 afraid to 20 home?
"Why ar, you afraid to 90
home?' asked Uncle Wiggily when
he had made sure the pig 5 basket
was nowhere near the log.
81 IN afraid to 20 home on ac-
count of my wife! grunted Mr..
Twistytail. .'She will be so dis
appointed because | have lost the
corn cakes. She will say it is all
nv fault. And IN afraid to get
off his log for fear the fairy will
make me disappear, too. Oh, dear.''
Nonsense!' laughed Uncle Wig
giy. "You are a great big strong
fat pig gentleman-excuse me for
calling YOU fat, but you are, you
know.n
"Ycs, l know it," sighed Mr..
Twistytail. 81 am very fat and
I'm very much afraid. l know
there s Il bad fairy in these woods.
II WAS the bad fairy that reached
over and lifted my basket from the
og. And if | get up the fairy may
try to lift me and she may drop
|, me and spill me all over and
Unclo Wiggily couldn't help
laughing. But he suddenly stopped
and looked up in the air. Then "A
! strange feeling came over the rab-
! bit.
"Look!' he cried pointing.
Your basket is coming back, Mr..
Twistvtail, Look, your basket is
sailing back here 10 you!' And, as
truly as am telling you, down
through the air the pig s basket
gently lowered itself, until it land
cd right on the log between Uncle
Wiggily and the grunting pork gen
| tleman.
"Thcrc, / told you there were
fairies hcre!' squealed Mr.. Twisiy-
tail. ~ knew it! It's good thing
didn't try 10 20 home
Uncle Wiggily reached over and
! began untangling. from the handle
Of the basket some twisted string
/ and bits of paper.
"What IS that-,;hc fairy tail?'
asked the pig, who did not have
very good eyes.
"Not fairy's tail, but a kite s
tail!'' laughed the bunny. ''I see
what happened! Look, over an the
field Sammic Littlctail, the rabbit
boy and Billie Bushv;ail, the squir-
rel, are flying kite. The kite has
a tail Of string aud paper. The kite
swoOped down, its tail became
twisted around your basket. Then