Show II I Tales Tales for Sleepy Tots I UNCLE PANCAKES Copyright 1923 by McClure Newspaper per Syndicate BY HOWARD R. R GARIS Uncle do you jou OU think you ou could manage to get your own lunch f If I 1 were to go out this morning and not come back until afternoon asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy of or orthe the bunn bunny gentleman one day Why yes jea s I think so answered Mr l who was getting ready to go adventuring But where are jou you off ort to Nurse Jane Mrs the lady lady- duck and I are going shopping replied Miss Fuzzy and It will take most of the day daj da That will be all right Uncle said good Stay as long as you jou ou like I shall probably not come home to lunch anyhow But Dut If I do I daresay I shall manage to find something In the pantry or tho the Icebox I 1 could leave you some come pancake batter read ready mixed and andou YOU ou might make yourself some pancakes suggested suggested sug sug- Nurse JaneThe JaneThe Jane The T yer very thing exclaimed exclaimed Uncle I with a Jolly laugh I I love pancakes with maple sugar sauce on them That's what That's what I Ill I'll 11 do Ill I'll go ad adventuring adventuring ad- ad venturing You leave the pancake batter where I can find It and aLd when I 1 come home Ill I'll get my own lunch So It was done and soon Roon Uncle Wig Wig- I guy found fourd himself hopping over the fields and through the woods looking lookIng lookIng look- look Ing for something to happen But Bu I though the sun shone and the wind wine rustled through the leaves eaves of ot the trees tree there was no adventure In sight am and I the bunny gentleman began to feel fee rat rather r sad All AH of a sudden however he hearda heard hear a noise In the bushes The branches branche swayed up and down and Uncle Wig Wig- guy gave his pink nose a shivery shiver twinkle or two as he whispered Here comes the Fuzzy Fox or th the Wolf Volt Or for all I know 1 It Ith may be he the e II y a h irY Rb wit with the e humps on his tail Now fo foan for foran an adventure But Instead s of the e le Wolf Wol atdorf orf fn sneaking ln out of the bushes eOs or the th Fuzzy Fox springing forth to nibble the bunny's ears there waddled Into int view view Grandfather Goos v Gander Oh my dear Grandpa exclaimed I Uncle I thought you jou U were the tho Fox Jox the old Im glad Im I'm not quacked gOose gentleman So am I chuckled Mr though It does does does' an adventure However it cant can't be helped Where are jou you going Grandpa Goosey I was looking for something to ea eat was a the e answer i iThen Then h look O no more more cried Uncle uncia Uncle In his Jolly way At home hom in my hollow stump bungalow Nurse Jane has left some pancake batter ready to cook gook Well We'll go back and have a lunch all nil by ourselves It sounds Jolly oily quacked Grandpa Goosey It will ta taste te more Jolly said the rabbit uncle Soon the they reached the hollow stump bungalow Uncle Wig Wig- gUy gily looked In the pantry tor forthe the baiter batter bat bat- ter tel and saw on a a. plate some round brown things Just the size and shape of ot pancakes Oh ho he be cried Nurse Nursa Jane has baked them for tor us The pancakes are all ready to eat Grandpa Goosey Goose But they are cold objected the goose gentleman It Is easy to o warm t them spoke o othe f u Uncle y and he put some of the brown things on the stove In a apan apan apan pan while he got the can of ot maple syrup from the pantry Those pancakes smell sort of fun fun- funI I ny quacked Grandpa Goosey sniffing sniffing and snuffing fing th that thai f t tway Oh Pancakes always smell way laughed Mr I- I I 1 Iguess guess they're hot enough now JW We Ve pour syrup on them and eat them So the two friends sat down to the table Grandpa Goosey tried to to round cut what was WIl on his plate The round brown thin thing slid all over o of off olt the table and landed on tho the floor the matter asked Uncle WIg These pancakes are aro very tough quacked the Goose Uncle was sawing away with his knife at the brown thing on his plate when In came Nurse Jane What WhaN in the world are you doing do do- dp- dp Ing she cried looking at the table Trying to pat eat the pancakes you left answered Uncle Pancakes gasped the muskrat lady housekeeper Those arent aren't pancakes pan pan- cakes Those are round brown thin rubber mats that I 1 set on the table to keep the hot cups from marking I the varnish Youve You've been trying to eat rubber table mats for tor pancakes pancake I Uncle Rubber mats cried Mr L Long Long- ng- ng ears earR Bless my umbrella I r thought they smelled rather queer quacked Grandpa Goosey Goose And Uncle twinkled his pink r l yi nose s and lia laughed g Ito Ho Ho Ho Nurse Jane said It was a go good d thing they didn't t eat tat the rubber mats or orthey orthey orthey they might have ha caught But she made them some real pancakes pancakes pan pan- cakes and very verv good these were let me tell jou you So It t all happened forthe for forthe forthe the best And If It the egg d doesn't Jump out nut of the shell and hide In the choColate I gilY It and X Johnl Johnle's F coat VIr ig V. 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