Show Tales Tots Tots Tots- I 1 for Sleepy U CUrS so SOMI u WOOD Copyright 1923 by McClure l' l Newspaper News News- paper Syndicate II Ily JU it OASIS GAIUS You ask him Floppy Xo o I o Curl Curly you OU said you'd oud ask nak and if It you ou dont don't Im I'm going back home and ask mother to give me some sour milk pudding Uncle Undo L the old rabbit gentleman heard these words one ono day as he sat oaf on the tho front porch of his hla hollow stump bungalow X J 55 should know those voices said Mr to himself smiling tho the least little bit and twinkling his hla pink nose They belong to tourlY and Floppy for tor none but pigs would talk of ot sour milk I But Dut I wonder what it Is they aro after Uncle tood up looked over the hedge and saw the two piggie gle brothers rooting their way along through the c clear ear sand What Is it you want of ot me asked the rabbit I Ve Wo came over to get your axe aice grunted Curly and Floppy said he lie would ask you for tor K it but now hes he's afraid and he ho wants mo me to ask you jou OU for tor It now and and er now and Curly was getting very bashful and flustered but Uncle VIg gIlY smiled in a 0 jolly way and saidI said I understand You little want to take my sharp cutting axe But what wha for forT im i'm Im I'm afraid you ml might ht hurt yourselves Why do you want the axe If Jr you please grunted Floppy who didn't wish his brother to do all the talking If It if you please Uncle we want to help old Poppy Chat by cutting his firewood for tor him Wo Va want co holp help Poppy Chat ge g-e in his wood for the tho winter as Sammie and Susie last week helped Mommy Bunch Dunch dig a awell awell a awell well so she could get water Oh Oil so 80 that's the idea is It r laughed Uncle And a 0 very vary good idea IdEm it is too But BUot as It is dangerous for tor you little lo boys to use the axe Ill I'll go along with you and help heiR cut the wood Only who is Poppy Chat I dont don't believe I ever heard henrJ of ot him Poppy Chat is an old squirrel gentleman who lives down the road explained Floppy He Ha lives JIves all by himself and he was once partly shot by a hun huner er man so he is lame and he ho couldn't get in tn his winter wood very well So 10 were we're going to help him get a lot of ot sticks sUcks and chips to keep him warm when it snows finel exclaimed Uncle and Ill I'll help you 80 So the tha rabbit gentleman took his sharp cutting cut cut- ting tint axe from the he shed and he and the little piggie boys were soon on their way to the nest house in the theold theold theold old tree where Poppy Chat lived He lie was called Chat because when he lie was a oung young squirrel he used to chatter like Ilka Dillie Billie and Johnnie S Hello who goes there here called I Poppy Chat when he heard the feet teet of ot Undo Uncle and the piggie boys bos rustling In the dried leaves Vho who goes there called Poppy Chat for ho was a soldier squirrel S Friends to cut your firewood answered Uncle Curly Floppy and I are going to chop chopsticks chopsticks sticks and branches so you OU will be warm this winter Oh thank you s said ld Poppy Chat and while the piggie boys scurried around and gathered fallen tallen I tree branches l. l Undo Uncle began began chopping P them n Into short O pieces c J g with v his axe Once as the tho o bunny gentleman chopped a n. stick In two one of the tho pieces flow new up in the air and nearly hit Poj Poppy oppy py Chat on his his' nose as he ho sa sat in his front door watching Ho Ito Ho laughed Poppy Chat That's like the time when I was in inthe f the tho war and cannon balls were fly- fly ingi I t J must be more moro careful said Uncle Ho and the tho boys had chopped most of Poppy I Chats Chat's winter wood when all of ot a I sudden Budden out from the bushes popped the Bushy Dear Boar I Gurr Gurr Gurri Gurr growled the Bushy Bear I am hungry for ears enral I I t must nibble ears You have the he I largest cars care Uncle so 80 I am amI am going to nibble yours Gurr GurrI I Gurr I I The bunny rabbit rabb t gentleman look look 1 ed at nt the Bear ho he looked at it t the theand axe and ho lie looked at af a stick sUck he had hadon laid on a log ready to break brenk in two Then Undo Uncle twinkled his pink 1 nose I Inose May I chop tills this one stick before you nibble my ears he asked the tho Bushy Bear politely Yes I suppose pose so sol Oh gurr Yes Yes' growled the Bear m Uncle WIg gUy swung the axe high over his head and brought it down p with a whack on the stickling stick sUck M Ping ling Tho The stick sUck was cut In twain n nand nand and one piece flew over and hit lilt the tha Bushy Bear Dear on his soft sott and tender nose S Oh Ohl Gurr GurrI Gurr howled the Bushy Bear Dear and away he ho ran rani Watt Wat al a minute I Wait a n minute laughed the bunny I thought yo you youw w o going t to nibble my ears ears ears' s I cant f My nose ee Is too sore sorel rel howled the Bear Then the piggie boys picked up the tho wood for tor Poppy Chat and the tho old squirrel I e did d not dw need J to ton worry J r about go the cold w winter win win- ter And If It the iho he Ice ico cream doesn't get cret et cold when it stays out late at atthe atthe the rag dolls doll's party Ill I'll tell you next about Uncle and Jonnies Jonnie's Jon Jon- nies nie's pockets |