Imperial Valley press., 1928-03-19
Bedtime Stories
By HOWARD E. GARTS
Copyright, 1927, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILY AND
THE MACARONI

keep close to me me-! Don t
get separated! We must keep clos :
rogcther! called Uncle Wtgglly 10
! Baby Bunty and little Nai,c, the
new rabbit child. The tl'rre hunnicS
were flying through the air, toward
their hollow stamp bungalow home,
/ they hoped, but they could not he
sure.
For many things had happened
since they started travelling and as
! Baby Bunty looked down and saw
something strange on the earth be
/ low the little rabbit girl 5ccmuc
more and come certain that another
adventure was going to happen them,
, 'Oh, look, : called Bunty, point
! ing down with one paw. Win the
! other paw she held fast to Uncle
Wiggiiy for she did not want to
! lose him.
"What it is?" asked Vallic. who
was holding to Mr.. Longears witt
both her little paws.
- Look at the people down there
went on Bunty, still pointing
They are hanging a lot of white
shoe strings out on their porch
ratings to dry. How funny!''
Uncle Wiggily was saying again:
/ Keep together now! Don t get
separated. Don t get lost. Ii we loSa
each other high up here in the air
there 5 no telling when we may
find each other again, Keep to.
! gethcr.
But he stopped saying this long
enough to look down and when h,
SAW What Runty and Nallic were
looking at he sort of twinklcd his
pink nose and went on:
Well, | might have expected it.
didn t think that Dutch COW
, tossed Us half far cnough on her
horns. might have expected it! -
= Expected what, Unkic Wig?
aSlcd Baby Buntv smuggling up as
close as she could to the bunn1
gentleman while she tloatcd along
through the air.
- might have expected that one
toss would never send us all the
way home from Holland went on
Mr.. Longears. I'VE re going "a
land, | think. and he looked down
again. Yes. he continued,
1--WE re much nearer the ground than
we were. :
What land is it?' asked Val
lie, who had come to Uncle Wiggily
in a basket on Valentine S Day. |
- And what are all those funny
things like white shoe-strings hang
ing all over?''
Before Uncle Wiggily could an
Swer, all o. a sudden he and Bunty
and Nallie fell gently down into a
field, right in the midst of a lot I
of soft, dangling strings of what .
seemed to be dough or flour paste, /
and the rabbit gentleman. who be-
came all tangled in these "whitc /
shoestrings, as Buntv spoke of /
them-Uncle Wiggily suddenly
cried:
Macaroni.
"What 5 that?' exclaimed Vallie
who had also become tangled in
the white strings. ''Is he talking
Dutch -
THAT 5 Italian, chuckled Mr.
Longears who WASH I much hurt by
us fall. I've have landed in Italy
md what Runty thought were white
'hoestrings hanging on porch rail
ngs are strings of macaroni.
What's macaroni ?'' asked
Iunty. II mean what 5 it FORE
ITO eat, answered Uncle Wig
5ily. "IH tell you about it in a
minute. " He began to untangle him
self from the half dried strings of
flour and egg paste and then,
through the field into which the
three travelling bunnies had fallen
came hopping another rabbit gen
tleman, wearing a. black hat, witt
green rooster feathers on it.
"IIcllo. exclaimed this strange
rabbit and though he spoke Italian
Uncle WigGilv seemed to under