Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-12
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the rabbit gentleman wanted to
sign his name, he would find no
red ink, or no black Ink, in either
pen,as the case might be.
This Is very funny he woulo
say. But he never dreamed that
the pens hoped out of his pocket
at night and played around the
room.
One night the red fountain pen
played so hard, jumping around the
black one and tagging it, that, be-
fore the red pen knew what was
happening, it had jumped up on
the window sill of the bunny gen.
tleman's bed room and there it
perched
BE careful! You'll fall outI'
cried the black pen. For having
been used to write so many words.
of course the pens could talk be-
tween themselves.
"Oh, dear mel My world" cried
the red fountain pen, all of a sud-
den seeing what danger it was in
for the window was open, as Uncle
Wiggily liked fresh air oh"
cried the pen. And it grew SO ex-
cited that nearly all the red ink in
it ran out and dripped down on the
porch roof just outside Uncle Wig
gily's bedroom window.
Get down before you fall outl"
called the black pen, and this the
red pen did. Then the two played
around the room until it was time
for morning to come and back into
Uncle Wiggily's pocket they jumped.
OF course the rabbit gentleman
knew nothing about this, but after
breakfast, when his wife asked him
to write his name on a paper check
so she could get money out of the
bank, Uncle Wiggily took out his
fountain pen.
What No ink?" he cried MY
red pen must leak"
The pen knew what had hap
pened-how its ink had dripped out
on the shed roof-but it said moth
ing about this. And though the
black pen knew, it never told.
SO Uncle Wiggily had to sign his
name in black ink, which was just
as good, though perhaps not so
spiffy or dogsie as you might say.
Then the rabbit gentleman hoped
away to find an adventure. He had
a little one, when he threw a snow
ball at Mr.. Twistytail, the pig, but
missed him and broke a window in
the house of Aunt Lettie, the goat.
Sorry" cried Uncle Wiggily.
I'll get you new glass, Aunt
Lettie," which he did and then.
having had, as he thought enough
adventures for the day, he hoped
home.
AS he reached his bungalow he
saw a crowd of his rabbit children
standing at the side, looking up at
the low roof just below his bedroom
window.
What are you looking at, my
dears?" asked Uncle Wiggily.
"At your red cane" answered
Baby Bunty, the orphan rabbit.
"See, you have a new red cane and
it is hanging from the edge of the
roof"
Surely enough there was a long.
red thing hanging down. But as
soon as he saw it, Uncle Wiggily
knew it was no cane, but an icicle.
which Jack Frost had made from
water that dripped slowly from the
edge, or caves.
But what makes it red?" asked
Buster as Uncle Wiggily told the
children what the cane really was
an icicle. II have often seen
icicles,' said Buster, "but never be-
| fore a red one"
Something red, like the red ink
in my fountain pen, must have been
on the roof and have gotten into
the water before Jack Frost froze
the long icicle like cane" said
| Mr.. Longears. Something has
colored the ice red and, truly, the
icicle looks like a red cane"
But he never dreamed his red
fountain pen had done it, Uncle
Wiggily got the step ladder ano
broke off the red icicle cane. BABY
Bunty wanted TO play with it ano