Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-13
Bedtime Stories
BY HOWARD E. GARRIS
Copyright, 1928, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILY'S PULLOMO-
BILE

B;IE
One day. as Uncle Wiggily was
going out of his hollow stump bum
ealoW 10 look for an adventure.
Baby Bunty, the cute little orphan
rabbit child. hoped up TO him and
said:
will you let me have a ride
behind your pullomobile today,
Unkie Wig?"
My pullomobile! exclaimed the
rabbit gentleman in surprise. Why,
I have no pullomobile. l have an
automobile and I know that the
boys make sidewalk scooters out of
roller skate wheels and call them
pushomobiles But I don't know
what you mean by pullomobile. I
have none"
oh, yes, you havel" said Baby
Bunty with a jolly little laugh. you
| nave one, but you don't know it and
yesterday Jingle and Jangle-"
/ Then, all of a sudden, Baby Bun
! ty stopped speaking. For Jingle
and Jangle, the twin rabbit girls,
| hoped out from behind bush and
made motions with their paws over
their lips that Baby Bunty was to
keep quiet, and not even whisper
though she wasn't in school. Uncle
Wiggily wondered what it was all
about. Such a secret sort of way
for Jingle and Jangle TO act, he
/ thought. Baby Bunty said:
7
posed to talk about it. All right
Unkie Wig" she went on, never
mind about letting me ride behind
your pullomobile. Go off by your
! self and have a nice adventure!
Then Baby Bunty started to play
/ tag with Jingle and Jangle.
This is very queer" murmured
/ the rabbit gentleman The idea
of calling my car, with the bologna
sausage tires, a pullomobile. Ha!
Hal I guess it was only a joke"
Then Uncle Wiggily took a seat
4 in his automobile and started of;
down the smooth woodland path
/ twinkling his pink nose.
/ He had not ridden very far, how
ever, before he heard a strange
noise behind his car, a whirring
sort of noise.
II hope none of my wheels are
coming off, thought the rabbit
gentleman, so he stopped the ma
chine, got out and looked behind.
Then he saw the reason for the
! noise. Baby Bunty, Jingle and jan
gle, wearing their roller skates, had
hold Of the back of the auto and as
Uncle Wiggily drove it they were
pulled along as nicely as you please
so this is what Baby Bunty
meant by calling my auto a pullo-
mobile" quickly thought the rabbit
gentleman. Jingle and Jangle
must have been getting rides like
| this before, either by hanging to my
car or maybe to Mr. Twistytails. S.
And Baby Bunty wanted her turn.
But Jingle and Jangle didn't want
her to speak of it SO I could hear.
They knew I wouldn't like it. And I
DON'T This must stop!"
Baby Bunty, Jingle and Jangle
looked surprised when Uncle Wiggi-
ly walked around behind the car
and looked at them where they
were catching a roller skate ride.
So this is why you call my auto
a pullomobile, is it?" asked Mr..
Longears, and now his pink nose
didn't twinkle, for he was going to
scold the children rabbits a little
bit
"Yes, this is why" said Baby Bun
ty. "It gives us nice pulls along on
our roller skates"
But it is very wrong thing for
you to do" said Uncle Wiggily. II
didn't know you were hanging on
behind. Just suppose 1 had to stop
quickly and you didn't know it. You
would bump into the back of my
car and bash your poor little noses. .
I'VE didn't think of that" said
Jingle.
And another thing" went on
Uncle Wiggily. Suppose, while you
were holding 10 my car and rohing
along on your wheeled skates, an
other car came up behind me and
bumped into me You would be .
bit smashed up I fear. OF course
being smushed isn't as bad as being
smashed, but it's bad enough.
I'VE didn't think OF that" sale