Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-10
Bedtime Stories
UNCLE wIGGILY GIVES a RIDE
By HOWARD T. GARRIs
Copyright, 1928, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate

"Ha! Ha. Hal" laughed Uncle
Wiggily. Isn't everything just fine
and dandy! Hal Hal Hal
Well might the jolly old rabbit
gentleman laugh and feel happy.
The reason was that ne was riding
along in his automobile, with the
bologna sausage tires and getting
away from the Woozie Wolf. =
I'm going to have the best fun
in the world, now that I have my
automobile said Uncle Wiggily,
and the flat tire is Off
You remember, hope, how, in the
last story I told you about Uncle
Wiggily getting a flat tire. He
fooled the Wolf into holding up the
auto, like a lifting jack, while a
spare tire was put on in place OF
| the flat one, and then, all of a sud-
den, the rabbit gentleman sprinkled
| pepper in the eyes, nose and mouth
| of the Wolf and rode away before
/ the Bad Chap could stop sneezing.
You see, Uncle Wiggily carried
pepper and mustard in his automo-
bile TO sprinkle on the bologna
sausage tires when he wanted to go
fast. And now the jolly old gen.
tleman was riding along through
the woods, on his way home to his
hollow stump bungalow, having
| fooled the Wolf.
And / think" said Uncle Wig
gily to himself as he rode along,
Il think, but I'm not sure, that
will take all my forty sixteen little
bunny rabbit children out for an
auto ride. I'll take Baby Bunty for
a ride. too" said Mr. Longears.
Baby Bunty was a cute little orphan
child rabbit, you know
Now while Uncle Wiggily was SO
happily riding along in his auto,
something quite different was hap
pening in the woods where he had
left the Woozie Wolf rolling over
and over in the leaves, trying to get
the pepper out of his eyes, nose and
mouth.
All OF a sudden along came the
Fuzzy Fox. The Fox saw his friend
the Wolf, rolling over and over and
stopped in surprise.
whats this? What's this?"
barked the Fox, for he was some
thing like a dog only he had a tail
like a busting brush. What are
you rolling around that way for,
Mr.. Wolf? Are you taking exer-
cise?"
IF I could catch Uncle Wiggily,"
snarled the Wolf, I'D take some
exercise from him and I'd also take
some nibbles. Oh, wow My nose!"
do you mean to say Uncle Wig
gily made you roll around like this?"
asked the Fox.
"Yes, he did" snapped the. Wolf.
That's queer" said the Fox 81
don't see how a poor old rabbit like
Uncle Wiggily could make you roll
like this. How Gomez"
How Gomez" snarled the Wolf.
did you ever have pepper thrown
in your eyes?"
mo, I'm glad TO say never did,"
answered the Fox.
well, you never want to- spoke
the Wolf, getting up on his feet now,
for he was feeling better You
never want to-ker- -choo-zoo!"
mo, 1 surely never will want to
ker- -choo-zoo," said the Fox. why
should I?"
Il wasn't telling you to do any
thing" snapped the Wolf. Il was
just sneezing, that's all Pepper.
you know"
"oh, pepper, up your nose
chuckled the Fox. Il seel Uncle
Wiggily got the best of you this
time"
"Well, it will be the last time"
said the Wolf. Il know what 1 am
going to do"
"What?" asked the Fox.
I'm going to fool that rabbit"
said the Wolf. Listen TO me-ker-
foo-ker zoo-ker zip"
That's a funny thing TO listen
to-" chuckled the Fox.
Il wasn't telling you to listen to
that" said the Wolf. L was Just
sneezing again. Pepper up my nose. +"
Eyes, I know" chuckled the Fox.
"Thats a very poor joke" said
the Wolf. "But here is what / am
going to do. Uncle Wiggily is rid
ing off in his automobile. even
helped him to change a tire. Now
I'm going to take short cut