Imperial Valley press., 1930-08-05
Bedtime Stories
Hy HOWARD E. CARRIE
Copyright. 1928. BY Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILY'S FLYING
LIGHTS

| What can have happened to the
moon -
Uncle Wiggily asked this, as did
Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy and Mrs.
Twistytail. the lady pig, who had
come over to help with the lawn
party at the rabbit gentleman S hol-
low stump bungalow.
"Where is the moon?'
That's what Kittie Kat. Jackie
Bow Wow, Billie Wagtail and all the
other animal children wanted to
know as they looked at the ic"-
cream freezers and the boxes of
cake on the bungalow steps.
eve can't have moonligh.
party without moon,' chattered
Johnnie Bushvtail, the squirrel boy.
You know that i true; don 4 YOU
| OF course you can have party any
time YOU like. 1t may be a birth
day party or surprise party or
garage party. But when YOU tell
everybody You are going to have a
moonlight party, and then there is
no moon. well, it, just too bad!
That S what Uncle Wiggily thought.
For the old rabbit gentleman had
planned to give all his animal chill
dren friends Jolly moonlight par
tv on his bungalow lawn. But after
the sun went down, and it began to
get dark, and when the moon should
have come sailing up out of the east
behind the trees. why, there was no
moon at all and the lawn was dark.
Somebody must have taken the
moon away Just to be mean! y
mewed Kittie Kat.
"Oh. l see what's the matter. y
suddenly exclaimed Baby Bunty, the
little orphan rabbit, jumping up and
down. The sky is all covered with
clouds and that's why the moon
can I shine down Look through that
hole in the clouds and YOU can see
a little of the silvcry moon,''
They all looked and there, surely
enough was the moon trying to peep
out from behind the clouds to shine
for Uncle Wiggily's party. But the
clouds were too thick and, after let-I
ting the moon have Just that one
peep. they closed over the hole and
il was darker than ever.
II know what we can do.' cried
Kittic Kat.
"'What, - asked everybody, even
Uncle Wiggily, for he felt sad ut
having his party spoiled because the
moon could not shine.
"Let S all take long brcaths and
blow the clouds away said Hunty.
(" You know the wind can blow the
clouds away from the sun so maybe,
if we try hard, we can blow them
away from the moon
Hurry Let's try it,' barked
Peetie Bow Wow. cit ism t any fun
1T party without the moon. Blow,
everybody! -
Nv goodness! You should have
heard those animal children trying
to blow the clouds away so the
bright moon could shine. Puff and
blow. Puff and blow, Even Nurse
Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy blew her share,
as did Mrs. Longears. But the
clouds still hid the moon and the
PARTY was dark.
81 guess even an elephant, puff
ing through his trunk, couidn .
blow those clouds aawy,' bleated
Billie Wagtail, the goat boy.
"You are right" agreed Uncle
Wiggily. "Only strong wind could
blow those clouds off the moon. But
we still have'the ice-eream and cake.
You children can eat that.
"In the dark?' asked Baby Bun
tv sadly. "Oh, what a shame, If
we only had some Chinese lanterns,
or something like that, 10 hang in
the trees it wouldn t be 50 bad. The
whole party is being spoiled"
~ wish had some lanterns,'
sighed Uncle Wiggily. 'if / had
| would put them in the trees and
then He stopped talking all
of "A sudden and looked mp in the !
trees. He saw some little lights
flashing. soon there were more
lights, hundreds Of thom-likc tiny
lanterns fitting around. The lights
flew from one tree to.another
"Oh!" cried Baby Bunty, may
be the moon has all busted into lit |
tie pieces aud they're sitting down
through the clouds to light the
party"
''Oh, 10, not that" cried Uncle
Wiggily. "The moon eouldn t do