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Show t BEDTIME STORIES BY HOWARD R. GARIS II. SCl.V. AVrGfJIIA M THE BAD SNOOPY. Copyright. 1920, by MeClure Newspaper News-paper Syndicate. (By Howard P.. Garij. P was Monday mornlnc. and wasn dav, and Nurr-o Jane Puzzy Wussv, the nice mtnkr.it lady housr-kccpe ' tor L'ncle vljril- I.ongcars, was geulns ready to hanu out the elo'rie. Bui, all of a sudden. Miss PtlUy Wu?.? looked In the lothes ba.ket and sh held up her paws and cried. "Oh dear mo-'" " What's he matter?" asked l'ncle' Wlgglly, whi. iru getting his tall silk hat all polished ready to go hopping out to look lor an ndventure. ".a you fall in the soap suds Nurse Jane?" "Oh, no. than!, you," answered the muskrat lady. "But 1 haven't a slnglo clothes pin left to fasten my sheets and pillow cases on the line Not a lnglc one! oh dear What shall 1 P do'" j "Don't tell me that"' cried Uncle iKglly. so iluslered like that he put a daub of blacking on his pink, twlnk- , "ft in.- f-i.i ci ii ij ii.li, mm . :m i mSMMMM made him sneeze, ' Hid the. had Tip KH or Shecfzlcks como and take all oiir V JmM clothes pins, Nurse Jane ' ' he asked, fl after he had given his red, white and H blue striped rheumatism crutch a iH I permint sandy lollypop. HJ No. neither the Dad Tip nor the worse Skee has been around this .. m morning,1 said uio Jam- it is 1 leally my own fault that 1 have no j Clothes plnfl I let :-:inimle and Susie Ii.ittietaii ink,- some to plaj house ' with, and then Johnnie and Bllllo W Bushytstl, the squirrels, scampered St prist and they wanted some Thai W j was Saturday, and thry promised to bring tin m hack this morning. But K jw they haven't. I Ha! I know what the trouble la' i J Uncle Wigglly School began -JH ,nl"' morning. ..uer the Ions vacation jLV ; ",1 ,ne anirnnl children did not have m "m'" t( bring back your clothes pins. 7 0 1J I'll h..p (.. ti if r.i.d i you 2 some new one...'' A I 'h. that Is en kind of ou," said ;JrTl "u"se Jane. "But I don t want to .( II bother you 1 tipi'.s you ought to Wjm be off looking for an adventure " - ' "Never n:ind," spoke i nele VVlggHj 1 kindly, "i ma: hare an adventure on ("SB m' way to the .store or back." i jLjM Ani he did a very funny one so v&tjZjM 1 " ou about It On and on cur JTCCfl the fl.lds a.id ihrough the woods "VjH hoj.ped the bunny rabbit gentleman, fjH and It did not take him long to buy ,uM I c,othes pins for Nurse Jane. JV '"'I let the rabbit and squirrel chll- -tJMM ;'rPn keep tho old on.s to plav with said Uncle Wlgglly, as he tucked trie -B PU' PlBi under his lu.l silk hat and I tarted to hop bai k home again, i The rabbit geritlemtn had not iLM hopped eri fai JHH derlng if he would have an adventure. V when, all of a sudden there was n I rustling In the bushes nnd out popped 'a funny creature with a long no.se and big eyes and a very large mouth. nh, ho" cried this bad chap ' I smell souse' I smgll rabbit ear sous', and I'm going to have w.ne" and he looked at Undo Wlgglly with big eyes, Who are you?" asked the bunny rabbit gentleman. "I'm the bad Snoop;.' was the answer. an-swer. "I'm always snooping around, looking tor souse and such like, and now 1 smell your sense and I'm going to take some for the Plpslaewah and sikeozlck, who are friends of mine." 'Well, they're no friends of mlm cried Dncls WiKglly, "and I'm not going go-ing to glxe vou any souse off m i an Then I'll take it' ' cried the bad Snoopy "1 can smell your souse as plainly as nn;th!ii; With my big nose, and souajd I must have'' He reached out to get some of Unrlo Wiggily s souse, but, yerj quickly, Mr Lon gears put his paw up In his tall silk hat and pulleu out one of Nurse Jane s new clothes pinr. Then, ' r suddenly, I note Wlgglly slipped the pinching clothes In over the bad Snoopv s big ni )Se. Hero' What lor are vou iloubdlnir dabdt ?'.' askerl the- Snoopy, talking in such a funny way because his nose wai pinched slm' i "I'm doing it to you can't mnell my souse," answered Uncle Wlgglly. I 'oh. ho!" snickered the Snoopy, ! talking as ;hough he had a colu in ni.i head. "If 1 candbt sbell your Skouse, I ga',i see Id wld by bldg eyes'" 'Oh, you can see my soue with your big oyes can you'" asked t'ncle Wlgglly. Wlg-glly. Well. I ll soon tlx that, you bad old Snoopy '" cjuickiy ihe rabbit gentleman stuck bll paw in his tall s.Ik hat again, and tie pulled out two more clotnes pins one he slipped, over the ijds of the Snoopy's left ye, nnd the other over the bad chap's right ejr "Now you can't see my souse'" said Uncle lgglly "Do. bud I gan taste id on bv dongue!" gurgled the Snoopy, talking as if he h id a i.hc cold in his head. "Oh. you can taste my souse on your tongue, can you."" cried brave Uncle Wlgglly Well. 1 guess I tan stop that' ' quickly the bur.ny took another clothespin and he fastened this o,cr tht- Bnopy s mouth. 'Now you can neither see, smell nor taste." said the bunny, and I don't' care how much you hear with your ears. You can't see to chase me cither, so I'm going to run away' " And awny run Mr. I.ongears, with his souse all wife, and soon he rcai h l his hollow stump bungalow in tlmel to help Nurw Jane hang up tho washing. wash-ing. But It was a good thing the bunny bun-ny had clothes p.r.s in his hat. traan I it? And if the grasshopper doesn't! try to Jump over the church steeple and hit the funy bone In his elbow' on the sharp point, tttl tHl you next about I nele Wlgglly and Sammie s paw s |