Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1925-03-20
Bedtime Stories
By HOWARD e. GARIS
Copyright, 1928, py Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WTGGLY'S FUNNY
RACE

The March wind was whistling
down the chimney ana around the
corner of the hollow stump hunga-
low where Uncle Wiggily lived.
The rabbit gentleman stopped
twinkling his pink nose and reach
ed for his tall silk hat that was
growing on top Of the hat tree in
the hall.
care you going out" asked
| Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy.
"Just long enough 10 buy 4 paper
with a new cross word puzzle in, -
answered the rabbit gentlemen to
the nuslrst lady housekeDcr.
But are you going to wear your
tall, silk hat?' went on Nurse
Jane.
"Why not?' asked the bunny.
~ can do q crossword puzzle as
well in tall hat as in short ore. -
mo! MOI 1 didn t mean that! -
| laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy. -
meant that the wind is blowing so
hard il will blow your tall hat off
your hoad more easily than it
would your short, low cap
"Pooh! l m not afraid OF the
March wind" laughed Uncle Wig.
gily, and forth he Jared, as q NOV
ing picture title might say, out into
the great open places where rabbits
grow whiSkcrs.
But Uncle Wiggily had not gone
very far bsforc the March wind
/ putfcd out its checks and gave
such Il blow that 1t sent the bun.
ny hat off his head, rolling over
/ and over away from him.
Naughty Naughty! ohidcd
Uncle Wiggily, playful like. PA
pa slap, Papa slap
: But the hat was in no humOr to
be ioked with, nor was the wind;
50 one blew and the other rolled
and Uncle Wiggily started off on
a funny race after his hat which
was being blowed along by the car
~ spring breeze.
! III catch YOU, I'll catch YOU. "
cried Uncle Wiggily, as he Topped
along after his runaway hat.
"What 5 the matter, Mr.. Long.
ears? Are you catching cold?''
asked Mr.. Tw!stytail, the gentle
man pig.
Catching cold' No! What made
you think that?' asked the bunny.
II heard YOU say 'ker-ehoo' just
now" said the pig.
II was speaking about catching
my hat-not cold" laughed the
rabbit uncle. and on Lc ran harder
than ever. But the wind blew
harder, too, and Uncle Wiggily was
as far from his hat as ever.
! At last the hat blew toward the
new den Of the Fuzzy Fox. Uncle
4 Wiggily didn I know that the Fox
had moved into new den, but such
was the case. The hat was nov
. quite close 70 the place whore the
Fox lived, and Uncle Wiggily was
still hopping after il.
Aunt Lcttic, the lady goat look
cd from her window and seeing Tn
Gle Wiggiiy racing along, called to
him:
Are You running for Il train,
+ Uncle Wiggily: If YOU are, the
depot is the ether way down the
street -
"I'm after my hat-not the
train,' laughed tie rabbit. and on
he hoped, faster than before. The
wind now lifted the hat up in the
air, sending it along just above the
top Of a small hill. On the other
side of the hill the Fox had his don.
Sitting in his doorway, listening
to tho March wind howl, the Fox
saw the hat skimmirg along just
above the hill
"Ah. There goes Uncle Wiggily S
hat. III jump on top of the hat
and knock Uncle Wiggily down aud
then I'll catch him and nibblc his
ears.''
The FOX made leap and landed
on the hat. But, Of course, Uncle
Wiggily WASH 4 under it, and down
lie Eo- ls-.s 70 TIC ground, very