Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-12
Bedtime Stories
BY HOWARD e. GARIS
Copyright, 1928, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILY'S SNOW
FLOWERS

Once upon time, as Uncle Wig
gily was hopping along the wood
land path, on which was Il cover
ing of snow, he saw Dr. PosSum
coming out of the pen house in
which lived Mr.. and Mrs. Twisty-
tail, the pigs.
"Somc one must be i'll there,
thought Uncle Wiggilv. - hope
neither of my little pig friends,
/ Curly nor Floppy, is Mling. Still
less would l want to see Mr.. or
Ms. Twistytail down with corn
fever, or anything like that.
Calling TO DR.. Possm, Uncle
Wiggily asked:
"Who is i'll it the pig pen9"
Its Mrs. Twistytail'' replied
the animal doctor. "Shc was quite
i'll, but my medicine has made her
better. However, now that she is
getting well, she is bit ..fretful.
She continually begging Mr.. Twis-
tytail to get her some flowers to
smell and look at. Bring me
some pretty flowcrsh she grunts
all the while. -
"'Why docsn t Mr.. Twistytail
bring his wife some flowcrs?" ask
cd Uncle Wiggilr. II should think
that would bo the least he could
do when She is i'll. -
fright gladly would the ply gen
tlcman bring his. wife flowers, >
said DR.. Possum, as he curIed his
tail around his bag of powders and
pills, but where can he find
flowers growing in March under
the snow: Where can he. ask
you3'
THAT 5 sol agreed Uncle Wig
giN. Il forgot about it being
stlll winter. Still it would be love
ly to find some flowers for Mrs.
Twistytail. III try and see if
can t discover some when am
adventuring today.
DR.. Possum hurried on to visit
Aunt Lettie the goat lady, who
had eaten too mulch nirius poster
pudding. and had the cpizootic,
while tncla Wiggily hoped along,
wishing he might find some flow
ers for the frctful lady pig,
All of a sudden, as the bunny
rabbit was hopping through the
woods where the SNOW lay thick
over the carpet of brown leaves, his
pink, twinkling nose caught the
sweet smell of .perfqme,''
- Yet there is no five-and- six cent
store here selling perfume, said I
the bunny gentleman, shifting and t
looking around. Nor yet do L +
see any animal ladies. Still, smell
perfume.
He shifted and snuffed until lie
made sure that the sweet odor /
was coming from beneath the snow
on the ground.
Perhaps some one dropped a
bottle of perfume and it broke. -
thought MIR, Longears. I'm dig
DOWN through the SNOW to find
out "
Leaning back on lis hind paws,
he began to dig with his front
paws, scattering the snow on either
side of him. As he dug the per-
fume grew stronger and he knew
he was getting closer to it.
If it 5 bottle of perfume III
take it TO Nurse Jane, until l can
find out to whom it belongs"
thought the bunny.
A moment later his paws went
through the last crust of snow and
then, nesting down in the old
dried leaves, Uncle Wiggilv saw
some little pink and white flow
ers growing.
"Oh. no! Blossoms criel the
bunny. Snow flowers! That 5
what I've found-snow flowers!
And III take some to Mrs. Twisty-
tail and make her happy"
The bunny dug away moro snow
and leaves and then gathered
beautiful bouquet of the snow flow
FRS. And when he was doing this
along came the Fuzzy Fox, ludcly
and impolitcly barking:
Here, you let those flowers
alone! They re mine!"
But Uncle Wiggily knew they
wcren T, so he scratched lot of
snow in the eyes of the Fox and
made him run away bowling.
Then the bunny took the snow
flowers to the lady pig. and when
she saw thcm and smelled them,
she said:
"Uncle Wiggily, you are a dear!"
And / think the same, don t you?
Anyhow, if the bottle cf ink
doesn't try to drink lot of milk
TO make itself turn white ike
sheet of paper, III tell you next
about Uncle Wiggily and the
teacher S rubber.