| Show Bed Time ed-Time linze I a. a Stories UNCLE AND THE CLOTHES PINS Cop CopyrIght right 1923 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate Dy By HOWARD R. R GARIS the kitchen kitchen kit Uncle lIy hopped out to I chen of or his hs hollow storm bungalow where hero Nur Nurse e Jane Fuzzy lii hl his muskrat lady housekeeper was wall giving ng the breakfast dishes their morning ba bath a riello hello Nurse Jane hello cried the bunny rabbit gentleman In a a. Jolly manner man ner ncr as he twinkled his pink nose If is I there anything broken this morning Anything broken What do yOt you mean asked s l Miss lIS IS Fuzzy Z DC DO you ou mean n have e I broken r any dis dishes es s L ar 8 so-no so I 1 didn't mean that thaU laughed 5 I mean have you ou broken an any anymore more snore Ironing boards so Ill I'll have to ho hooft hogS hop hog S off oft and get you ou a anew new one as I Idid old yesterday yes yes- es es- f S Oh laughed Nurs no no thank you ou Jane Everything t Is all right so 80 far tar s Then I 1 am going adventuring Ban sang sane 7 Uncle for tor he was feeling ve VCr very t gay i I hope you ou have a one ODe sale said Nurse Jane off hopped d Uncle over over the fields and through the woods He lie ba banot had haC hadnot not gone Rone very far tar before all of a gudden sua- sua den he ho heard a a. I. I voice calling ca Oh Uncle Come here come hero here please I My goodness me sakes alive and asic f some popcorn peanuts peanuts' thought th the I bunny rabbit gentleman I I hope thaI that I Isn't I Isn't the Blue N Nosed sed or th S I Sc-allery Sc Alligator I JO bul Uncle I looked all around but bui buthe I I Wow VOW I he ani only saw Jackie Jacle and Pestle Bow I the puppy dog boys waving their paws paw I to him from a window of ot their kennel lenne I I I hO house What h f not Is far it it raJ away Jackie ie and asked th the bunny Could c you please come in and play I with us as you played with the C boys yesterday barked Jackie have Have to stay you 1 the home snuffles sniffle from s school so as asked you Ou ed edI I Uncle school today isn't No but mere any on account of ot teacher being ill whined So were we're staying home but wo we arent aren't having any fun and we we can t go out cause mother has gone to the store S and d she wants us s to walt wait here re to answerS answer t ddS at ath e- e S the dS door r and the h t telephone All Ait right Ill I'll come In and play with I you said ald kind Uncle And I I when he was in the doggies' doggies house the first thing he saw was 1 a basket s of t new clothes p pins ns that r Mrs Yr Bow 0 Wow had bought from a I peddler that morning Well iVell Vell have some clothes pin fun tun said Uncle Aw you cant can't have any Sant fun with clothes pins objected JackieNo Jackie No o agreed his brother lets play football S I Not in the house your houses your our mother wouldn't like It laughed Uncle Wig Wig- I y Walt Wait Valt and Ill I'll show how you ou how to have hay fun tun with clothes pins pins Tho The bunny rabbit took a clothes pin and a I paper napkin He put the paper napkin in the slot of ot the clothes pin with a wide vide part of ot the paper sticking sUcking out on either side tide Why It looks Just like a butterfly barked what Im I'm going to make male of It It Uncle Wiggly with mime edme come colors from the doggies' doggies paint box the bunny made eyes on the head of or the clothes pin and he painted red spots on the paper wings so the butterfly looked more snore natural Oh I want to make one one barked So do I cried Jackie And soon the doggie boys were making butterflies but but- out of clothes pins and paper na napkins Then when they tired of that Uncle showed th them m how to build a little log house by piling the clothes clothe clothespins clothespins pins up in a o. hollow square Then all of ot a sudden when they were having lots of at fun the door suddenly burst open en and in lri camo came the Blue Nosed I 1 want ears ears ears' howled the running across the floor But Uncle Wig suddenly put some tome of tile tie round slippery clothes pins in the w way y of or the The blue nosed chap stepped on the pins his paws rolled out from under him and down he fell bumping his his- bright blue nose Oh trolley cars cars cars' howled the Bab flab boon And away he ran out of the house not nol nibbling Uncle s 's ears nor those of ot the doggie dog boys Clothes pins are very verv useful said saide the e bunny n gentleman a as he e e back to his bungalow They e k p clothes from blowing a away wa and th 1 klet Blue Nosed from nibbling ears |
