Imperial Valley press., 1925-06-04
Bedtime Stories
By HOWARD E. GARIS
Copyright, 1928, hy Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGTLY AND THE RED
ANTS

new wife and Nurse Jane luzzy
Wuzzy were out in the kitchen of
the hollow stump bungalow, help.
ing each other make cake, they
found .hcrc was no sugar in the
/ pantry.
I've can { make cake without
sugar, that 5 sure, said the musk
rat lady housCkecpcr.
- II ask Uncle WiggiIy, my now
husband, to hop to the fivo and SIX
cent store and set Us a bag of sug
ar, said Mrs. Lougcars. "llc
likes to 80 to the store il makes
adventures for him.
50 the two ladies explained how
they had 10 sugar for their cake,
and Uncle #igglIy, giving IN extra
jolly twinkle to his pink nose, said:
"Of course / II 60 to tar store
for you. was Just wondering what
l could 90 10 keep busy, now that
the children have gone to school. l
VIII bring YOU sugar enough for
a dozen cakes.
So the rabbit gentleman hoped
of. But, as it happened. two of
the new little rabbit beys had moo
vet gone to school. They were
Scooter and Tooter and they were
hiding beneath the window when
Mrs. Longears asked Uncle Wiggily
to get the sugar.
T0h! l know 4 funny trick we
"an play on our new daddy, whisp-
cred Scooter to Tooter. I'VE II
have time before thc last bell
rings.
"What 5 TIE trick?'" asked loot,
or.
"This, answered his brother.
. We II wait along the path that
our new daddy takes coming home
from the store with the bag Of SUI
gar. II jump out and. cry Boo.
At him .Wst for fun. He'll he sur
priscd and YOU can open tie bag of
sugar. which lie viii. drap and put a
lot OF salt in with the sweet stuff
Won I that be a fine trick p
\ funny fine trick. laughed
Tootcr. And when daddicums
takes the salty sugar home, Ma and
Nurse Jane viii laugh at him for
theAl such stuff to.make
cake! eoale on, we Il get some salt
and hide beside the path.H< !
And 50 Uncle Wiggily. Knowing,
of wsi4t, was going 10 hap
pen. hoped on 20 the store to getj
the sugar. When he was almost
there he saw 4 Lot OF little red ants.
huddled together on a leaf in the
middle Of the brook.
BE careful, little red ants,
cried the bunny, ''or You will fall
in the water and be drowned,
"That 5 what we re afraid Of,
said the largest red anti I'VE
started TO cross the brook on the
leaf for boat. but we did not know
the water was 50 rough. What
shall We DO
"I9l guide your leaf boat safely
10 shore, offered the bunny gen
tleman. and this he did; hopping
OH to get the sugar before the red
ants had Il chance TO thank him.
Everything turned out Just as|
Scooter and Tootcr planned. They
hid beside the path, they jumped
out and chied Boo al their new
daddy and surprised him 50 that,
without him knowing anything
about il, they put a lot Of salt from
their pockets into the bag Of sugar.
Il don ! mind being cried Boo
at, laughed Mr.. LoHgcars, play
fully, shaking his paw at the two
bunny BOYS. But You had better
hurry to school or YOU II be late,
Then Scooter and Tootcr hoped on
laughing TO themselves rs they
thought how surprised Uncle Wig
lily would be and his wife and
Nurse Jane, also, when they found
salt in the sugar.
And there was great surprise
back at the bungalow when Nurse
Jane tasted Of the sugar before put
ting il in the cake, for she was very
careful.
"You brought salty sugar, I'M
cle Wigsily. cried the mu-kra,
lady.
"Oh it must have bc,u - trick
If Scooter and Tootcr, said Mr.
Longcars, while hi, wife said they
ought 70 be punished and sho told
Nurse Jane to throw away the
salty sugar and lct Unclo Wigsily
get some more without salt iu H..
No, don :, do that. - cried Il lit