Imperial Valley press., 1927-03-29
Bedtime Stories
Copyright, 1927, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
BY HOWARD E. GARIS
UNCLE WIGGILY AND
DUMPLE'S TAIL

When BoppY. the funny little
wooden man, VINO mad no arms uI
legs, rolled from beneath the edge
Of Jncie Wiggily's front door, SO
if could be opened, as told YOU
last night, the rabbit and Jackie
Bow Wow, who entered by the back
door of the bungalow to see what
the trouble was, sat down ana
waited.
You said You wanted to ask me-
favor, Boppy,' Uncle Wiggilv
reminded the odd little chap. ~
shall he happy TO grant it if | can.
oh, l think you can all right, -
spoke Boppy. Tho question is
will You - He bounced up in the
air several times and came closer to
Mr.. Langears. Fer bouncing mp and
down was Boppy's manner OF
! walking without legs. Then, stretch
ing his head up on the wooden peg,
which formed his neck. to make
| himself look taller, the little wooden
man said:
| - The favor | want of you, Uncle
! Niggily, is for You to como ard
! live III tho bungleump with I'm and
me for a While and help us to keep
/ tho Nogglepgs from getting acram-
! bIed. Will yUu?''
Uncle Wiggj'y twinkled his pink
! nos" and thought for i moment. lie
remembered how, some weeks before
! this. he had awakened one mornin.
| t. see a Quaint LITTLE house built
near his own hollow stump bungalow
| In this house, whicE was called Il
| huugleump, because i was partly
"a stump, lived Bopp>, Tn a'd six
/ WoggleJigs,
The Wogglciigs were little wood
On creatures wit1 nrG.c, made III
! the shape of two eggs joined to-
! ccther with 4 wooden peg. On one
! end the Wogglcjigs had Il tail ana
on the other end head, and they
! had four wooden legs. Boppy was
made of two roand pieces of Wool,
! with head but no legs or tail TN
Was half as large as Boppy, being
made OF one piece OF wooa with Il
| ..cdG.
| Uuzic Wogglcjig was white, her
! sister Maize, Was night blue and her
! other sister, DaZie VAS dark biu-.
4 ! mere y tlG titI' T. h.t'tliEi7s .''t'''l'
: .,Umrle and Bumplc, who were res
pectiVelY, eo!ored red, yellow and
, green.
Now funny thing about those
Wogelclg children was that they
were always trading their ncadS,
/ legs, tails and bodies one with the
otner rs they played about the bun
gleump.
They are always getting scram-
| blcd. sighed Boppy, and II takes
all the tine we have to unscramDIs
;Aem. We can never g on 4 picnic.
1 wish YOU would come and i've III
our bungItump tor .ltuc, tAo e
Wiggily, to nelp uuserambie the
Nosglel;gs. Will you.'
- Wil!' answered the bunny
gau ucman, who. before tl,is, had
lad q few adventures with Boypy
and U,n Is have told you. - Il
/ hop right over.
Then I'll roll with you, Of,
/ tcreI Bopay who made his Way by
rolling and hopping.
Are ven gong to stay with thu
| WC9giciig5 forever .' asked Jackie
! Bow Wow.
,.Oh. no. Just sort of vacat
ion. " answered Uncle Wiggily.
The rabbit gentleman mad no
sooner rcachcd the bunglcump than
out came running Dunple, the 1t
| Wogglejig boy.
Where's your tail. pumplc' -
! quickly asked Boppy. - on
| sto.,an't lee runninn around with
ont your -tail! 1t ism polite, c.,
! pccialiv when Uncle Wie9ily has
come to visit us. Whore your
tail?"
Dumplc turucd his woodcn
head around to look.
''Oh, my tail is gonc," he cried.
Ny nice, rcd tail. Oh, please help
me find il Uncle WiggiIv.'
Il will, answered the rabbit
gentleman. But whore did you last
/ have your tail DumpIo! -
II can t rcmcmbcr,' answered