Imperial Valley press., 1925-06-01
Bedtime Stories
BY HOWARD e. CARTS
Copyright, 1923, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGiIsy AND THE
SNEEZE- POWDER

bit girl and boy twins, were out in
the fields not far from Uncle Wig
gily's hollow stump bungalow, gath
ering flowers one day.
"There S a pretty yellow BLOSSOM
over by that big rock, - said Wee4ie
"Please pick it, Wizz1e, for my
paws are filled with blue blossoms.
An right answered her broth
or. So he hoped across the green
grass and picked the yellow flower.
Il viii take it home to our new dad
Ady, Uncle Wiggily," decided Wiz
zic. "He likes blossoms.
~ wish he had come out with us
today" laughed Weczie, Maybe,
then, we would have had an adven-
ture.
"Well, if we take this-a -ker,choo
flower to Daddicums, maybe he
viii make an adventure for us, =
said Wizzie laughing.
"Why do you call it an aker.choo
flower,' asked Weezie ITO me i
looks just like dandelion. =
II didn' call it an a-ker-ehoo
/ flower" answered Wizzie with am
other laugh. II just sneezed when
picked it-that's all.
! "Oh, - said his sister, and they
hopped on ever the fields and
through the woods until they reached
the hollow stump bungalow, where
Uncle Wiggilv lived with his new
rabbit wife and all the forty eleven
or more little rabbit boys and girls
she had brought to him.
'.H Here is a yellow flower for you,
Daddy Uncle Wiggily,' said Wizzie
as he handed Mr.. Longears the vel
low blossom. ''Weezie and / picked
it for YOU. =
"Oh thank YOU ever so much, y
cried Uncle Wiggily with a jolly
twinkle of his pink nose. Weezie pu;
the flower in vase of water near
her new daddy, who was sitting in
the easy chair reading the paper.
Then the little rabbit boys and
girls hoped off to school, and Mr.. !
Longears having read the paper ons
both sides was about TO hop out and
look for an adventure when all of
a sudden, he gavc~a loud snecze:
All, ker ehoo, ker ehool"
My goodness cried his wife, !
hopping in from the kitchen where
she was helping Nurse Fuzzy Wuz- +
zy bake a muskmelon pie. q You
are catching cold, Wiggy, my dear,
you mustn t think Of going OUT
~ m not catching cold - laughed !
the bunny. Il just-oh, excuse me !
-ker zoo zbti | just sneezed.
THAT s a sure sign you re catch
ing cold = went on Mrs. Longears.
Il must send for DIR. Possum at
once! She hopped to the telephone
and though Uncle Wiggily insisted
that he was all right, and had no
cold, his wife called in DR.. Possum
"Um, let me see your tongue!"
began DR.. Possum. "An, yes," he
went on, when he had looked at it.
You have tho 700 choo zip ker
foot"
"No, No" quickly said the ami
NAL doctor. THAT ism I what Uncle
Wiggily has. 81 just sneezed, that S
all. " l just meant 70 say he had
cold. -
''Then you must be catching one
also! - laughed the bunny gentleman
50 for you sneezed yourself. -
$50 you did said Mrs. Long
cars. - heard you myself. You went
ker foo zoo ker choi'
"That was a good imitation of
how | WENT laughed D.. Possum.
~ wasn't initiating you,' said
Mrs. Longears. 81 was just-now-
excuse mel was ker sneezing my
self. "Oh, do you think | am get
ting cold also?"
DR.. Possum was just going to give
/ Uncle Wiggily some bitter medicine
for cold when the animal doctor
happened to see the yellow flower
which Weezie and Wizzie had
brought home. DR.. Possum went
close to the flower and smelled it.
Then he sneezed again-Hker 1u zu
zip"
Everybody is catching cold, ~
laughing Uncle Wiggily. i
"No," said DR.. Possum, "'it S
just this blossom 1t is snccze
flower. The petals are filled with
yellow dust, called pollen, and from
it the bees make WAX baskets to
hold their honey. But when this
yellow pollen dust gets up any ones
nose it makes them sHeezc. That is
what has been making US sneeze. If
! put the flower out of the room we
will sncczc 10 more and, surely
enough, when the flower was taken
away all stopped sneezing.
" ! IN glad" laughed Uncle Wig
gily, as DIR. Possum put the bitter
medicine back in his bag. - IN glad
it was only Il sneeze flower. And
if the June bug will take piece of
mosquito netting and make ham.
mock for the rubber doll to fail out G
of IN tell you next about Uncle
Wiggily and the wise hen.