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Show Sed-Time . :: Stories UNCUS WIOOILY AND TH HUTLINO LEAVES. By HOWARD R. OARI. The Trmr Vox and tbe Weoil Well eat gloomily on hillside tewether and glowered (round. That meant they ld Crull." growled the Wolf. Tb almoat IVZoVnTr ,h. Fo. who. though smaller, was more aly and cunning than Ms friend th. Woll "Ira l not "'" rive up trying to cMeh Unci. WggllY. i Listen, a. th. telephone f Irl aaya, 1 have '' ""atlr itr- growled th. wolf i -Well go In th. wood, and hldn- hlnd trees." proposed the ro Vnrle Wlgglly hop. along, a. he aure ' to do, eooner or later, looking for an adventure, ad-venture, well lump out from ofhlnd our ! tree, and gran him. That will ba adventure for him. and a meal for u., aa we .hall nibble hla eare." , "Pooh! Nomnit! ' enarled tha woir. We've trle'l that trick time and again, and Vncle Wlgglly la always too amart for n. Ha arts away." "Ah! hut this tlm. It will ha different. ' whispered the Fes. "Listen one mora We .hall cover oumelvea with pitches ot moes. and ws'll look ao mmh Ilka treaa that th. rabhlt won't know ha." W.ll. perheps that trick mar work, agreed th. Wolf. "We'll try It. I'll cover myself with gre.n mom. and you do the aame: w.'ll hid. behind trtea and mayo, we II catch the rahblt." The Fox and Wolf aat for llttla whll. teeeee -on- ah. hUlaid. where roaur dried leaves had fallen from the tree.. Aa they moved their pawa the dried leavaa rustled. Home llttla tlma after thla. aa I lie la Wtrslly ni hopping along, looking for an , adventure, ha heard a htselng aound on I the ground. . f "1. that too. my friend Vff. Snake ! a.ked the bunnv. for he could eeo no one and vet the dried leavea ware moving and i mailing near hla pawa. Ho tha bunny knew that It mill Da tha anak. crawling ."Yea. I am here." hlaaed tha anaka. .. - w Jl I II If. 1 h.v alltl a rood loke to tell you. Tee! Tee! Te! HoJ hum'" And tha anaka laughed until hla , tall shook. ' Tell me tha Joke, so I may laugh. beaaM Uncle Wlgglly. who was a Jolly rah hit. "Well." went on Mr. Rnake. "not long ago 1 aaw the Kox and Wolf sitting together to-gether on th hlllelrte. Hoftly I crept cloee and I heard them talking. They are going to try to catch you. They are going to cover themselves with moss and hide hrhlnd tree, along tha path wher you will go." 'Then T better hop to my hollow Stump bungalow right away." aald I'ncle Wlfcaily. twinklng hie pink noae In alarm. "No. don't," advleed the enake, who waa wiser oven than th Fox. "I'll tell you how to turn the Joke on thoaa two bad rhapa." "How?" asked tha bunny. I.telen." said the snake. "As th Fox and Wolf aat there they ruetled their feet In tha dried leavea. They mad. Juat th. sound I make a. I crawl along a rustling noli. In the leavea." "Yea. laughed I'ncle Wlgglly, for ha could gueea what waa coming. "1 know the eound you make. What happened?" "Well," went on the anak. "the Fox and Wolf wer making ao much nolae, ruatOng tha dried l.v. that they did not hear the rustle I made, and I wiggled ' cloee enough to them to bit thm tn fun, when the wind auddenly blew off soma leava over my back, and. looking down, they saw me, "You ahould have aen th.m Jump up and run, for they are afraid of anakei, vou know. And to make them run faster I rustled the leavea again. They ran off ao fait thst Ihey neaJy lost their tails, and ever since then, ss soon aa they hear Ine leavea rustle they think 1 am coming and they start and run. "Now. this la what you can do, Uncle Wlgally. Hop through tha woods until you get to the place where the two had rhapa ara trying to make themselves look like moss on the trees. Now you know their trick you esn easily aea them. And when you do sea them, taka a atlck, ruetl. It In tho dried loaves and aaa what bap-pens." bap-pens." "I will." laughed tha rabbit gentlemen. Through th woods he hopped until he reached the path he often anok whlls looking for adventurea. "I think they'll be somewhere along this path." thought tha rabbit. Burely enough, he had not hopped very far before, sll st once, looking ahead, he eaw two treea that eeemed to have big lumps of green moss on the Bids. 'Tho lumps ara the Kox and Wolf." chuckled the bunny. ' Ilere'a whra I fool them." lie crept aa close aa he thought safe end then, taking a long atlck. Uncle . Wlgglly rustled tha leaves behind the . green lump that wss the Vox. "Oh. my! The rustling snake" barked the Kox, and shaking off the moea with which he had covered himself, away he ran through tha woods, bumping hi nose arnlnet the tree.. Then Uncle Wlgglly Jiggled hla atlck In tha dried leavea behind the green lump that waa the Wolf. "Oh. tha leaf-ruatllng enake!" bowled th Wolf, and away he ran. bumping hla noee twice against the trefe. "Ha! Ha!" laughed Vncle Whrrlly. "I gueea f turned that trick all right. My ears shan't be nibbled todav!" And they weren't. And If th rocking chair doean't tip over backward and put ' Its srms around the Phonograph when It's ' trvlng to sing. I'll tell yet. next about Uncle Un-cle Wlgglly a oil can. |