Imperial Valley press., 1930-08-08
Bedtime Stories
By HOWARD e. 0AR110
Copyright, 1928. by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILY' DISCOVERY

| 50 But, Uncle W NlggllE, IL SO lhI-
possible and silly. 1t never really
could happen!"
Excuse me, but I am telling you
it did happen, for | saw it with my
own eyes,n answered the rabbit
gentleman.
He was speaking to the Lady
Mouse Teacher of the Hollow Stump
School and, all of sudden, she be
gan to laugh so hard that her tail
tied itself in a knot and it looked
so queer that Mr.. Longears himself
had to Join in the merriment, or
laughter.
That is the funny thing which
happened and about which | prom
| ised to tell You in the story before
this one. There was the Lady
Mouse Teacher with a knot in her
tail and if any of her animal chill
Gren pupils from the Hollow Stump
School had seen her they would have
| laughed also.
But none of the animal boys or
| girls was there then, for two reasons.
One reason was that the school was
closed for the long vacation, and the
other reason was that the Lady
Mouse was spending her vacation at
a boarding house on the shore of the
Duck Pond Ocean, where Uncle Wig
gily had hoped to find her to tell
her a most wonderful thing None
of the animal boys or girls were
there.
"You don't mean to tell me, -
went on Miss Mouse after Uncle
Wiggily had helped her loosen the
knot in her tail, "you don't mean to
say, Mr.. Longears, that you saw the
windows of my school crying real,
water tears' Did you?'
"That's what L did, Lady
Mousse answered the rabbit gentle
man. 81 hoped past the school to
see how it looked during vacation
and l saw the back windows shed
ding tears
"Why would tLey be so silly as
to do that?' asked Miss Mouse.
"Well,n answered Uncle Wiggily,
"the only reason | know is that the
| school is so lonesome for YOU and the
children when you are away on the
long vacation that it just couldn't
| help crying out of its windows which
are the only eyes the school has,
"Oh, but it really couldn t hap
pen," chuckled Miss Mouse and she
started to laugh again. Then, as
she didn't want TO tie another knot
in her tail and stopped to say; 81
know. 1t must have been rain you
saw on the window pancs, Uncle
Wiggily. When rain water runs
down window it looks just as if
the glass were crying. That's what
YOU must have seen; rain on the
windows, and you thought the
school was crying. Ha! Ha!'
"No, excuse me, if you please,
Miss Mouse,' spoke Mr.. Longears,
"'but what / saw wasn't rain. The
sun. was shining as brightly on the
school as it now shines on you and
me. Yet the windows were weeping.
You had better come and take a
look at your school. IN sure it is
lonesome.
~ don't see how it can be-"
gqueaked Miss Mouse. "But it Isl
such a strange thing to hear you tell
about crying windows that ] III come
with you and look. | should like
10 discover what makes school
cry"
$50 should T." said the bunny
uncle. "That would be almost as
wonderful as Columbus discovering
America. Come alOng!"
Over the fields and through the
woods hoped Uncle Wiggily and
the Lady Mouse Teacher. Soon they
reached the Hollow Stump School.
All was still and quiet around it.
There were no merry, laughing,
shouting voices of animal boys and
girls playing tag as in the days
when school was in. For now the
Hollow Stump was closed for the
long vacation.
"Look there! See! What did I tell
you?" whispered Uncle Wiggily to
Miss Mouse as he pointed a paw at
the back windows of the school.
Cant you see the big drops run
ming down the glass?'
The Lady Mouse looked and
looked again. She wiped her eyes
with the end of her tail TO which
she had tied her handkerchief. Then
she looked again and murmured:
"Well, the school certainly seems