Imperial Valley press., 1926-06-05
Bedtime Stories
By HOWARD g. GARIS
Copyright, 1925. by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGLLY AND THE RED
HOUSE

Will YOU please put me up lii
tie lunch of carrot pancakes and cat
lagc Jelly asked Uncle Wiggily
Of Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy one
Saturday morning.
Are YOU going on picnic =
asked Mrs. Uncle Wiggjlv, who was
getting ready 10 do the marketing :
Tor next day.
Well. You might call il that,
2uswcred Mr.. Lougears. Il want to
tind some new adventures, and SO /
( am going to hop a long way from
my hollow stump bungalow today. [
think shall not he back in time toT
iaaeh. >o am taking with me some-
+ thing t. eat.
Then. if YOU aren't going to b
home for lunch. | am going to the
movies, said his wife.
= Go ny all means, laughed the
! bunny gentleman. And tonight [
! viii bring YOU a box Of maple sugar
candy when / come back from ad
i vcnturiug.
Sc, carrying lis birch box o.
=! IHHtHr NHi'u tHt iduShidt idAN NUTS
keeper put up for him. Uncle Wig
21y hoped over the fields and
through the woods, going far, far
away to find an adventure.
After while he came TO part OF
tae woods where he had never hop
l,cd before, and, looking up in a tree.
he saw a small house made OF wood
and bark.
That looks like bird house, built
TX some kind boy scout, thought
Uncle Wiggilr. Il wonder if any
birds are living in it? will watch >
So the rabbit gentleman sat hlnt-
self down on a green. mossy log be
cath the bird house, and waited 10
see who would fly in or ont. Blu,
for an hour or more there WAS no
sign Of life. No bird flew in the
little woodcn hoa>c fasteRed in the
tlee. and no bird flew out.
guess no one lives there, said
Uncle Wiggily. :" ! was going to ask
il found bird at home, where |
might meet with an adventure. But
shall have to travel on to get one,
| think.
But Just then, Al Of Sudden,
there was It rusthng IN the bushes,
and our popped the Bob Cat. BefoTe
| ncle Wig-lis, could ct away the
Bob Cat >at down beside MIN sud
putting his paws around The bunny
gentleman. held him fast.
Now you are having an adHeA.
ture.'' chuckled the Bob Cat. Il
lave caught you, Isn't that adj
venture enough, :
Too much, sighed U-tele Wig
e.lr. Quite too much. Hlease lel
II, 20. good Mr, Bon Ca, :
II m not good Mr. Bob Cat. II
rad Mr.. Bcb Cat md m not going
10 let Won 90. >narlcd tn" unplea>-
ant chap.
And then, all Of sudden, voir,
over Uncle W'igsily ; head dang
cut;
..cIosc your eyes. Nj Lonsears,
"Ha. Who is talking howltd
tie Bob Cat. and with MS eyes wide
e1en h. looked up al the hstle house.
-NNt lNSI tHtH MIS-. 't+'-l'' '''' "
,ame out on the porch and, witt
hcr broom, swept down lot Of dust
The dust fell in the eyes OF the Bob
Cat. binding him and making him
sac ze, Ker choo! Ker 700 ker
frldlcum.
RIM, Cnclc Wigsily' Run
sang Mrs. jennie Wren, the bird, ana
the the rabbit gentleman, whose
ewes got no dust in them because
l. shut them as he had been told
.hea U1clc Wigsily easily pulled
loose from the succzing, blinded Boz
"a and ran Oft
Kcr cboo. Kcr foo! Kcr fiji
G.cum.' cried the bad chap as he
Shlttlcd and bumped his wa to
thc spring to wash the dust out o.
his eyes, and then he crawled home
TO his den.
"1hauk you. Mrs. Jcnni" Wrcr,
for dustiug the Bob Cat, sald
Turlc Wiggilv, when he hoppcd
back, after while, to the bird bun
l:alow with some crumbs left over
rom Ii, lunch, Il thought no on"