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Show BEDTIME STORIES BY HOWARD R. GARIS I . - UNCLE WICGILY AND THE CHIMNEY Copright, 1921, by McClurS Newspaper Syndicate "I'ncle Wlgglb'! Oh, l.'ncle Wlgglly! Will ou come out here a moment pleaeeT" called a voice in the bunn rabbit rab-bit gentleman's hollow sltimu bunRalOW one day. "Dear me! I hope that Isn'i the Skll-lery Skll-lery Sallery Alligator calling me!" thought Mr. Longcars. Then be hap- sped to remember that alllKators hardly ever go out in cold weather. "f'onie On, I'ncle Wlgglly!' called tbsl voice again, and then Mr. LongeafS knew It was Nurao Jane, his muskrat lady housckeepei Out to the kitchen ran Unole Wiggllyl and when he pot there he didn't exactly 1 find the clipboard bare, but he found ih-place ih-place full of smoke. And through thiol cloud of amoka In her kitchen N'urse lane was calling "M goodness me sakes alive and aomj 1 loUypbp flopoxers'" cried Undo Wis gl Is inv hollow stump oununlow n fire Nurse Jane"'"- "So ' answered Miss Fuzzy Wusxj aori' of coughing and choking "Hut trie stove is smoking dreadfully I think a brlok must have (alien down InMuc t!,. chimney and slopped It up. 1 cant make the fire burn " "I'll get the step ladrt.ir and take r look nt ihe chimney." offered ihe bum y uncle "Let the fire alone for a whib. j Nurae Jane. Go In the parlor ai d let ' the smoke blow out of your eyes. I'll get tip on the roof and fix the . hlmney." "Do you think you can?" asked the muskrat lady. "I'll do my beat," spoke tho bvnuy. bravely. A little later he was climbing up on ihe i..,.f ..f Iiik bungalow, i.: Ire,- a ladder lad-der 10 get there. The roof ,u. not very hljfh, so Undo Wlgglly wo-u .i..t afraid .f fulling "Now I must look down the chimney to see If 1 can find the brlr. or whatever what-ever has fallen In to stop up the flue. ' said the bunny He bad on his old clothes, and an old cap, so he didn't mind Sticking hjs head part way down tho chimney. By this tinr- the fire had gone out. so It wasn't hot, and id more smoke came up. "Well, I cant see anything there." said I'ncle Wlgglly to himself, as he drew, his head out of the top of the Chimney. "I'll get a long sllc!; and 1 oK. It dou n ' But about this time along cam? 'he old PHlSSS Pox. look I m: for the I unn-: rabbit, The Fox saw Nurse Jane, with her head oul of the parlor window to clear her ei;:4. nose and mouth of s ki "Where's Vncle Wlgglly''" asked the Fox, not even bothering CO aav if ou please. lie wak Impolite, ,11 Fox. ' I'ncle Wiggily Is on the roof) ' answered an-swered Nurse lane, before she thought. "Jin' Just where I wanl him' lie can't get away from me Up there!," growled the Fox. and up the Inddi r ho went after tho bunny gentleman. I fJncle Wlgglly was Just coming dow n , get the long pole, but when he saw 'he the hunnv slopped. Oh!" said I'ncle Wlgglly. I "Oh, hoi" barked ihe Fox "No v you an t grt away from me. and I'm: gOlUg :i nibble your ears"' I'ncle Wlggily looked all around., 'I lo re was no way of escape. lie (tared 1 ! not Jump off the roof, and the Pi st.e 1! ; between him and ihe ladder. Then the l bunny thought of a trick. 'Before yon nibble my ears." pollt-ih said i'ncle t'lggiiy. "will you please look down my chimney and sen if n can see the brick Hint has fallen '.n. I stopping It up? You bar.- verj sharp BS. Mi T'.c. much sharper than ill".. "Indeed. I have and Sharper fscli too " sahl the Fox rather pleased at b.-lng told his eyesight was good. "Yes. I I'll look down your chimney, and thru I II nibble jour ears!" he growled Over the roof and up to the chimney j marched the Fox. The Fo stuck bis ' 1 . .id flown HS I'liele Wfggllv odd i!"li I "I don't see any brick here!" ltc said . In .1 muffled voice. "on. look down 3 'it farther! cried l"r,..e Wlgglly. And with that he ga the Fox such a shove, hooallng the bad chap up by his bind legs, that the Fox was pushed half way down the ChlmnSy, and there he stuck' "Now I guess you won't nibble my ears! cried the bunny, as he scrambled down the ladder "Ha! Ha!" 1 "Let me out! Let me out! ' howled the I Fox. with his head down tho chllttnf j 1 and his ligs sticking out the lop and kicking around like a plnwhecl. But Uncle Wlggll .ailed a pollccnvin dog who pulled the Fn- oul the Chimney and arrested blm And then the police-man police-man dog. with his club, jinked- the brick out the flue and the stove didn't smoke any more Once again the bunny was afe. Anil if the front gate doesn't run down to the end of the street to sen the lamp post stand on Irs head. I'll tell you neu about Uncle Wlggily ami Dottle's sled. 00 |