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Show ! LaSQI3I?2rEIKiE'.:v' "Hey! Something la the matter:" howled tha Wolf, never looklag up, however. "The rain la coming through your umbrella. Thla la no place- for me. I'll atand under a tree until tha rain stops. 1 never' aaw auch an umbrella!" Tlsn't an umbrella !f a rtlNNYBBELLA'' laughed tha rabbit. rab-bit. "And I'm glad It la!" Then he hopped aafely home, leaving thx Wolf under tha tree, and the rabbit, rab-bit, under tha good half of tha umbrella, um-brella, dtdn t get wet at all. Ho -thla trachea ua that half a loaf of bread la better than no pie at all. And if the flra engine doean't get tte wheela wet when It poulrte water an tha flower bed, I'll tall you neit about J'ncls TVIg-glly TVIg-glly and the feather game. eTeKsre.-aBTaTsfSXXTaxTBSB tacltc lUUIl.t AAU THeV KVP pacl.Lt. Copyright,. ln. by Mc:iura Newa-paper Newa-paper Syndicate. . By BAWAP1D WU OABIi. One day, as t'ncla Wtgglly hopped out of hta hollow atump bungalow, Nurea Jane Fuaay Wuaay called after him: "Where ara you entngr To par a llttla vielt to Mr. Twlatvtail. tha gaiitfemaa pig. anew an-ew ered tha bunny rabbit. "Hi cut hla aoaa oa an old tin can and 1 want to cheer him up." ' e "That la rery kind of you.1 aald tha muakrat lady houaekeaper. "But you bad better taka your rub-bar rub-bar coat and your rubber boota.- "Wkyy aaked Unci Wlgglly. "Because It looks Ilka rain" a weed Nurse Jaae. . Tha rabbit gentleman glanced tip at tha sky snd said: "Oh, I think I can go to Mr. Twlsrytall's and get back before tha atorm. Have you anything good I could tak tha gentlsmaa pig. Nurse JaaeT" "1 have aoma turnip shortcaks," shs snswsred and aha gave Vncle Wlgglly a largo slice for Mr. Twjstrtall. Over tha fields and through the woods hopped Vncle Wlgglly carrying car-rying the piece of turnip shartraks to air. Twlatytall. The gentleman ylg- was glad -ta ana ln rabbit fnend. "How Is your sora nose that you rut an a tin can?" asked afr. Long-ears. Long-ears. "Much batter, thank you." grunt-ad grunt-ad tha pig, and then ha did not talk for a while aa ha waa busy eating Nurse Jane's cake. All of a sudden there waa a rumble and a roar, sounding so loud that Uncle Wlgglly almoat fall off kla toadatood chair. "Was that an auto going over a brldgef aaked tha bunny. . - "I think It was thunder,' answered an-swered Mr. Twistytall. "Ws are going to havs soma rain. "That's what Nurss ana aald." poke U-irle Wlggliy. "And aa I didn't bring my rubbar boota and coat, to any nothing of an umbrella. 1 had batter ba hopping back." "Oh. please atay a Tittle while longer," begged Mr. Twlatytall, for ha was lonesome. "If It ralna I'll lend you an umbrella." 8o Uncle Wlgglly stayed visiting a llttla longer. But tha thunder became be-came louder, rumbling ana grumbling. grumb-ling. "1 had bettor hop along now,' aald tha rabbit gentleman after a while, looking around as tha lightning light-ning flashed. "If I hurry I may in to my sungatvw wmui w ui storm comes. "Well, take this, anyhow." aald Mr. Twistytall, and he reached In a corner and handed somsthlag t,o ths rsbblu "What's this an umbrellaT' aaked the bunay. ' "Mori of, though I call It a funny- -brella." laughed the pig gentlsmaa. Kunnybrella What do you i n-eanr- aaked Uncle Wlgglly. j "You'll aee when you open It, chuckled Mr. Twlatytall. "But if It doesa't rain you won't have to open It Hon along aad gtipd luck to you, Uncle Wlgglly. "Thank rout I wleh yon the same." said ths bunny, and away ha hopped ever the fields and through the woods. All the while the lightning was flashing and the thunder rumbling, though, ae yet k had not rained. Uncle Wlgglly was halfway to hlJ hollow atump bungalow when, all of a sudden, out from bshlnd a big rock stspped ths Woosls Wolf. 1 "Oh!" exclaimed ths bunny. "Dhl" laughed ths Wolf. "I think , I'll wslkwllh you. Uncle Wlgglly. I ses you have an- umbrella, and It will keep me dry." The bunny rabbit didn't know t what to eay aa the -Wolf walkel ( elong with him. Thsa all of a suddea It began to rain. t - "Hoiat the umbrella and keep ma dry!" growled the Wolf. ? The bunny rabbit raised the urn- ' brella and. as hs did so, he eaw l that one-half ths cloth was gons j from ths ribs. It waa really only i half aa umbrella. No wonder Mr. Twistytall called It ' a funnybrella." thought ths bunny. "Perhapa ha knew I would meet the Wolf and could play a trick on him with the funnybrella. I'll do It Unele Wlgglly keld the erool part of the .umbrella over himself, and ths Part with ths hols In over the Wolf. And of courss ths rait came down-on the Wolf, wetting him 'nrcugh and through. |