Imperial Valley press., 1925-10-27
Bedtime Stories
By HOWARD e. GARIS
Copyright, 1923, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILY AND BULLY
NO TAIL

i Fhppcr and Flapper. the little boy
I and girl rabbit twins, was falling
down hole. They had tumblcd
| into the hole while running to get
away from the sikilleTv Scal'ery
Alligator. And only that Uncle
! Wiggilv stopped down to pick a
four leaf clover, the bunny gentle
man might have been hit by a
stone which the bad chap threw
"'Yes. indced!" said Uncle Wig
gilv speaking to Flipper and Flap
/ per, even while they were falling,
| after this m going TO bcllcve Il
little bit in four-lcaf clover luck.
| | told jackie Bow Wow ii was silly
to believe a clovcr-with four leaves
would bring luck, but now | know 1t
ism t so very silly.
But if the clover is lucky why
/ docsn t it stop us from falling
asked FliPper.
"A fair question, my son. a fair
question, spoke Mr.. Longcars.
d" But give it time-we don { want
10 stop falling too quickly, YOU
know. After all, il ism I the fall
ing that hurts-it S the sudden stop
ping. y
ooh, we re slowing up.' iovfully
cried Flapper. We aren falling
nearly so fast now. This was
true, and the reason was that the
hole was growing smaI Ter and
smaller, like the hole in a funhel.
Until at last Uncle Wiggilv and
F1apper were gently wedged i'll the
hole They had stopped falling, but
were caught fast.
very lucky about this - complained
Flapper.
I'VE re stuck" said Flippcr.
perhaps if we wiggle a bit,
sa;l Mr.. Longrars, we mavaget out
of this hole. You wiggic first
FHpper.+
SO .FlippFr wfsglcd and wogglcd
and pretty soon he gently fell out
of the bottom of the hole upon sontc
soft grass, And as soon as lie was
out of fhe way down dropped I'm
Gle Wiggily and Flapper. They. |
too. dropped on the soft grass and !
weren T hurt, Then all three look !
ed about them. They saw that I
thcv, had COINS ont of a hole in the !
side of q sseel, =hillsand Uncle Wig !
gily cried: =. Z
.'Whv, ! know this place. That i
hole used to be. my hurrow or GH- |
dergrouud house before | built my {
hollow stump bungalow. | thought I
] remembered that wall paper pat
tern. Dear me. Back in the same +
hole and ont again. Now | know |
where am.
"What brook : that, daddveums
asked Flipper, pointing to one that |
ran along at the foot Of the hill, !
lust in front of them.
That is the brook that flows in
to the duck pond ocean, answer /
ed the rabbit gentleman. We /
aren t far from home. See, the four |
leaf clover brought US luck. ' He |
put the leaf in his buttonholc.
This isn't very good luck,
commented Flipper, 1--WE can I !
get across the brook. for we can I Z
swim and there is no boat. The !
hill back of US is too step to climb |
and We cant fall up the hill. Fall |
ing down was all right-but we
can t. fall up again. II
..No and we don t want TO,
said Flapper, d" for the Alligator is I
W there. What are we going TO /
do, daddycums, to get across the I
brool'''
"Lct me think, spoke Uncle |
Wiggilv. He was looking at the /
four-leaf clover, and wondering |
what could be done, when, all of |
sudden, along came Bully No Tail |
the frog boy. Bully had made ,
raft out of lily flower leaves, and /
now the frog boy was pushing this /
raft aolng by means Of pole. Bully !
pushed the lily pad raft close to tho +
shore where the three Dummies stood I
and croakCd; (