Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-26
Bed Time Stories
BY HOWARD e. GARIs
Copyright, 1925, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILy'S HANDKER.
CHIEF

rdl lazy NuUSehStR per, as ne VISNctt
the front door of the hollow stump
bungalow.
A clean handkerchief? Why,
certainly, she answered. Per
haps Won had better take two, -
she went ON, as she hurried up
stairs and came down with box
OF trlsnly lroned squares OF linen.
Two handkeychicfs-ho extra
VACANT like laughed the ounny.
lone is enough.
mo, - insisted Miss Fuzzy Wuz-
~. "While you are hopping along,
looking for an adventure, some one
may pass you i'll an automobile and
splaan mUu on your pink, twmkling
nose. You viii want to wipe the
mud of your nose with your nand-
kerchIet and .hat will get it dirty.
/ mean the handkerchief viii oe
all mud. You can use that one for
wIP.ng off Splashes with and keep
the extra cItan handkerchief III
your pocket.
a good idea-I never thought
of that, said Uncle MIggilE with
laugh. 50 he put the ,wo hand
kerchlets in hls pocket and hoped
over the fields and through the
woods to seek an adventure.
lie had not gone vcvy tar from
his hollow stump bungalow before
le heard a voice saying:
Come on nov! Lon be afraid.
You can do it II you try
"OA, but l am AFRAID. = said
anl.Ler Voice, u sort OF paDy voice.
Il might 1au aHu break my Mct
new tan. -
"lou musta t be SO seary Ike! -.
laughed the 1Irs5 voice. ''Lome on
-Jump.'
II must see who this. is, " muir
INJURED the bunny gentlemen TO MN
SELF. 1t can pe any OF the
pad chaps-tney would not speak
as k.ndly ana g,Atly as do THESE
voices.
Inc bunny p,ered through the
bushes ana up III a tree lie saw
TWO squlrrc4s. one was johnnie
busnytaII. Inc otAer WAS 4 new,
nu,le squirrel girl.
heAo, JoLAuie.' called Uncle
Wigg.ly. ~ no IS that with YOU.
Tins is my new I:ttIe sister.
and her name Is nKIppy, answer
ed Johnnie. "Only she doesn t
skip very wel, lie went on with
u 4augA. Mother told NE 10 take
oklppy cut III tie tree branches TO
teacA ner to jump and leap ana
SKIP as Brother DLIe ana l 90.
bul oklppy Is afraid.
" hat > size AFRAID of? asked
the bunny, as the little gIrI squirrel
peeped out from thq fringe u her
tnlcH tail.
II m-now-I' III scairt that III
fall down through the tree D.aucA-
es and break ny tan, cAue,erea
oEIPpy. II don want TO fall. If
JoAHAle wOuId get QOWu on tue
ground and hold up MS paws 10
: eaten ne, II 1 snOuIu 1aII-then l ii
jump 1Iom one branch 10 the otntr
lne way he wants me to.
1rs, but 1 can get down on
the ground to caJcu you and stay.
up Acre Dy YOU III tue same time
10 teach You 10 jump, s4Iu JOnn-
me.
"Weu, then, l m not going to
learn 10 Junlp-eNer. suIu skip
py.
oh, but YOU must. All squirrels
must learn TO jump. cnotIereu
Johnnie. You Ii lave to o. Dig
ger jumps tAoA lAat DcIor- you
grow up, and be pointed IRON one
-4mD IL IAe otnc.-reaAy not lar
at all.
80, I m not going to punp!''
sad 'oAIPly aha sAc ae-4cu ready
70 cry.
wait u minute! I have it. l
know what to Qo.' suuQcuiy ex-
clallHed Lncte Wigguy. j How
wound It be, okippy, - l stood on
the ground under you and spread
-. Lly HandkercnIo4, like Att III
4 circus tent, to catch you III case
you lei. Would you jump tAen.'
4es,' sald oAlpPy, - would,
thank you.
Then IN hold my handkerchief
below you, SaId the bunny. IL
have two nandEerchlefs, as x hap.
pens. He took the extra one and
spread it out in his paws below the
tree, as tiremcn spread the life net.
Looking down, SkIppy saw that she
WOuIdn be Aurt II she fell and
then she jumped, as Johnnie want
ed hor to. FROM one tree branch
10 the other she leaped, though her
little heart beat very fast.
There you are! That 5 the way
to DO it, cried Johnnie, and he
c!apped his paws But, as lie did
So, he forgot to hold fast TO the
branch on which he was sitting. and
down he fell
But he landed in Uncle Wigg;ly's 8
handkerchief, and he was 50 heavy
that he wont right through it, tear
ing 4 big hole. But the bunny said
that didn't matter, as he had an
other handkerchief. So you see il
was good thing he took two,
wasn't iti And ii the little boy
doesn't hidr, his pennies in the
snow bank to grow into dollars for
q new Iollypop, IN tell you next
about Uncle Wiggily's two rugs.