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Show VNCLB WHWlll.V ASD TMD rKACH. (Copyright. 1t2l. br MeCur Newspaper News-paper Syndicate. I By HOWARD SV, -BABIt. Once upon a time, es Uncle Wig-ally Wig-ally wee hopping far. far away frets hie hollow etump bungalow, look, ing for aa adventure, the rabbit gentleman heard a ruetllsg la the euehea. "Oh, sol" whispered Mr. Ioeg-ears Ioeg-ears to himself. Perhsps thst le eome bed snltnst coming out to nibble nib-ble my ears! I muet be careful." So Uncle Wlgglly waited ansleue-ly. ansleue-ly. but no one came out of the bushes. "Hello In there, whoever yeu ere?" cried the bunny rebblt uncle. "Come out snd show youreelf! You can't rare me?' Then t,he bunhes ruetled sgala and out cams Tommy Kat. tbs pussy pus-sy boy. "Ha! Ha!" laughed I'ncle Wlgglly. "l thought you might be the Fussy Tot or the Wooile Wolf." "Well, I'm glad I'm neither see." mewed Tommle Kat. who wss carrying car-rying something in one pew. "I'm glad, also," said Uncle Wis- ?lly. "But what have you there, ommlo, my boyT" asked Mr. I.ung-eara I.ung-eara "Have you been picking sp-plee sp-plee oft a mulberry buehr" "No," leughed the pueey cat chap, "but I picked a peach off a peach tree, and I'm taking It horn te my sister Kittle who la 111." ' "Thai la very kind of you." spoke Unele Wlgglly. "I'll wslk along with ysu while you take the peach to your eteter. And, whea 1 get te your house I'll tell her a little bedtime etory to msks her lsugh." Thst wlU be fun." mewed Tommle Tom-mle kat. "And, may I ais lutes to th etoryr , - "Ok, yes,' answered Uscle Wlgglly- Then h and Tomml went along together, over the field and through th wode Taey vrere almost al-most at Tommle's houee, and Unele Wlgglly waa thinking up a story te tell Kittle when all of a euddea there waa aaotber ruetllsg la the bushee. "Hello!" whlepered Uncle Wlgglly. "Someone la there! Do yoa suppoee It could be your brother Jot, or your eleter Kittle?" "No." mewed Tomml. "Kittle la ill and Jele has sobs to my graad- ma's. "Then, perhaps, this Is the Woosle Wolf or th. ruaay Fox," eald t'acle Wlgglly, "eo we muet be careful Hide down behind thle log with me. Tomml., and I'll find out wit Is ruetllsg the buehee." go the rabbit gentleman aad the Httle puaay eat boy hid down behind be-hind the log and then Unci Wlgglly, Wlg-glly, looking iyly over the top of the fallen tree, called: "Come out! Com out! Whoever you are. come out, yon Woosle WolfP' ' But ao Wooale Wolf cam eat "Com out! Come out! Whoever yon ore, eome out yoa Fassy Fox!'' cried Uncle Wlgglly. But no Fuxxy Fox rem out. "Com utl Com out! Whoever you ar. come out, you Bob Cat!" relied Undo Wlgglly, and out earn, the Bob Cat. "Oh, what ahatl we dor" mewed Tommle. "The Bob Cat will nibble my eare and yours, too." Aed eo he would, for a Bob Cat Is a Lyas, yon know. "Maybe we ean fool the Bob rat." said ITnele Wlgglly, and then Tommle Tom-mle cat thought of a plan. "I'll offer him half of Kittle', peach te let ua go," aald the pueey hoy. So ha called over the top ef the log: "Will you let ue go for half a peach. Mr. Bob OetT" "Maybe." yowled the Bob Cat. "Toss me hstf the pesch." So Tommy Tom-my toeeed helf the nice peech over the top of the leg.-. But after the Bob Cat had eaten It he growled: "No. I'll not let yea go ualeee you give mo the other half ef the peachr So Tommle to.. a over tee eecond half. But after the Boh Cet had eaten that he cried: "I'll net let you go onlees you glvs me sa-ether sa-ether peech!" "I hsven't another peech! What hall I doT" asked Tommle of Uaele wittily. "H.re, give me the stons front the pesch." whispered the rsbbtt. He threw the peach stone at the Bob Cet. "Bang!" It hit him oa the nose. -Oh. wowchle wow!" howl4 th. Bob Cat. "Oh. my aoee!". And then he rsn swsy and Uncle Wlgglly Wlg-glly snd Tommle could come out. The bunav bought another peech for Kittle Kat. who was soon mode well. And how ehe lehghe when Mr. T,engears told abput oltllag th Deb Cat on the neee! And. If the kitchen chair doeen't go In the parloe when the piano hae company, and etaad up n Its hind l.gs. I'll tell rou next sbout Uaele Wlgglly and the Apple Bug.. . |