Imperial Valley press., 1926-05-15
Bedtime Stories
By HOWARD R. GARIs
Copyright, 1926. by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGTLY'S LEAKY
ROOF

All of sudden, one night, Mrs
Longears, the rabbit lady wife of
( Uncle Wiggily, awakened in her bed
and cried out:
1T s rainine,'
! Very well. my dear said Tn
clc Wiggily sleepy like and calm.
LET it rain. 1t will be good for
: the flowers,
He turned over to go to sleep
again, but his wife jumped up and
cried:
"Wiggv! You don I understand.
| don't mean it raining outside.
though of course it is! But | meap
il s raining in here! There s lot
of water splashing down into the
room! There must be a hole in the
roof
With that Uncle Wiggily jumped
out of bed also and, holding up the
bottle of fircflies which made n
beautiful flash light, the rabbit
gentleman saw a stream of water
coming down from the ceiling and
Splashing on the middle of the bed
room floor.
Yes, it : raining inside as well
as outSide,' he said. There must
be a leak IN my roof.''
What are you going to do about
it?' asked his wife.
II can't mend the leak now. III
the rain aud Darkness said the
rabbit gentleman, for 1T was in the
middle OF the night that the storm
sror+nl (,,- ~, |
Will put some new shingles on top
of my bungalow where that leak is
in the roof.
But what about the water drip
ping down into our room now ," ask
ed Mrs. Longears. And maybe it
is coming in the children 5 rooms
also
She quickly ran to see about this,
but was glad to find no rain in the
rooms OF the little bunnies. They
were all sleeping peacefully. And
when Mrs. Longears got back to her
own room she found that Uncle Wig
gily had brought up from the cellar
an old washtub, which he set in the
middle Of the floor, just under the
water that was running down i'll 4
stream from the roof.
That will catch the rain until
morning. said the rabbit gentle
man. 1t will do no harm dripping
into the tub. When it is daylight l
will mend the leak
50 Mr. and Mrs. Longears slept
again, while the rain splashed down
outside and also inside, filling the
washtub - that by morning II was
almost running over. When the sun
rose the rain stopped
And Just IN time, too, said Tn
Gle Wiggily. aS he got ready to climb
up on the roof and mend the leak.
IF il had rained any more l would
have had to get another tub to catch
the water.
, You aren t going to let thai tub
Of water stand in the middle of the
floor, are you!'' asked his wife.
oh, no, " he answered. II shall
empty it as soon as l mend the leak
i'll the roof
Uncle Wiggilv found a place on
top Of his bungalow where the wind
had blown of some Of the shingles
and, having seen the size OF the hole,
he climbed down to the ground TO
get his hammer, some nails and
pieces wood TO fasten over the leak.
Now while Uncle Wiggilv was get
ting these things. 10 and behold, the
Bob Cat was watching from tree
near the bungalow.
"Ah hal snarled the Bob Cat to
himself. ''Thcre's a big hole in
Uncle Wiggily', roof. II jump over
there from this tree, I'll get down
through the leak in his roof before
he mcnds it. Ill hide in the room
underneath, and when that rabbit
comes in to see if he has the hole
properly mended-why, I'll jump on
him and scratch him.
SO the Bob Cat leaped from the
tree over to the roof, and then he
| jumped down the hole. But he didn I
know the rub of water was standing
in the middle of the floor, under the
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