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Show BEDTIME STORIES H BY HOWARD R. GARIS I UNCLE WIGGILY ANI ill MKT'S TAII- ropyrlght, 1920, by McClure Newspaper News-paper Syndicate. (Ily HOWARD Ft. GARIS.) "What are you thinking of. Cncle ik-Bil ik-Bil ?" yjked Nune Jane Kuzzy Wur.zy one day. as the muskrat lady housekeeper house-keeper saw the bunnj rabbit gentleman gentle-man sitting with his head down between be-tween his paws In front of the kitchen stove 'Does your rheumatism hurl vou. or can't you find an adventure" Neither one, Janle," answered M I-ongear?. "I'm glad to say mv rheu-sttm rheu-sttm Is not so bad today. As for an adventure. I'm going out now to look for one. But 1 was Just thinking how smart Jummy Mouse was to trick the Wor.zle Wolf Into jumping down nrnong the prickly briars " Jumpy Mouse was smart and he saved you from being nibbled by the Woozie Wolf," spoke Nurse Jane. 'I told you this slorv last night, if you will kind! remember 1 l.'rc'e Wljrglly was jusi going o start from his hollow stump bungalow when, all of a sudden In came running run-ning Squeakie Eekie, tho iousln mouse who lived with Jollle nnd Jiilie Long tall, the mice children. t.ih, Uncle Wlggilv I Oh I ncie Wig-gil Wig-gil ' ' cried Skeaklp Eckle, all out of breath, as she scrambled her wav across the kitchen floor 'Come out, quick' Something terrible Is the matter with Jumpy Mouse'" "Do you mean Jumpy Mouse, who was o kind to me rvnd who saved mr" from the Woozlo Wolf." asked '.hr bunny. ' Yep' 1 do' answered Squeakie shaking her head up and down as fast ji - he could "Jumpv Mouse Is (irtlnp terrible funny He's turning somer-OVer somer-OVer and over and he can't stop'" ' We il 1 should say that was strange!' declared Uncle Wigglly ' I'll So o-.it and see what Is the matter." he aid to Nurs Jane it may be that I haie an adventure right at my own door." 'Then you won't have to go chasing off through the woods after one," remarked re-marked Nurse lane "But I hope nothing noth-ing very much Is the matter with Jump) Mouse " "Oh. you'd better come quick" squealed Squeakie Eekle He s some-saultlnc some-saultlnc all over the front yard-' Uncle Wlggll) ran out of his hollow stump bungalow, followed by Squeakie Eekle and .V'irse Jane. In the front aid they found Jollle and Jiilie Lonn-tall Lonn-tall 'he mice chlld-en. and Sammle and Susie Littlctall the rabbits Jumpv XtOUSl was ruso there, nnd. Just as Squeakie had said, poor Jumpy was turnlnjf somersault afei somersault and some even seemed to be pepper-saults. pepper-saults. 1 ' Why. Jumpy' Whatever la I he matter?" asked Uncle Wigglly. "Are ou going to Join the circus or something some-thing like that ? On. no, Uncle Wigglly No inderi Sadly answered Jumpv- Mouse, as he tur"c, oyer again. Then stop that somersaulting: 1 ;onged the rabbit centlem.in. "You'll 1 get so dizzy vou can't go to school'" I ' I onlv wih I could stop It. Uncle Wigjrlly." sadly said Juninv. He started start-ed to give another leap for he was a lumping moure, as I have told vo" Bui Instead, ho only went over and I over in a heap, tumbling down ' Why cant you stop. Jumpy?" askeu Mr. I.onge in "Because part of my long tail is cut off, answered the leaping mouse. T I was going through the wods Just now I looUng for more bench nuts to carry ' home In my cheek pov.ches ns vou once saw me doing, when all of a 'sudden, something snapped fast shut on my tall. It gave me Kre.it pain and whn I looked around I saw that part of my tail was cut off" How terrible"" said Nurse Jane. Yes. but the worst of it Is.' said .Jumpy "that I need my tall for leap ing. We Jumping mice have depend de-pend on our tails, just as kite: do Without them, when we Jumn. we fill and turn somersaults. That's the trouble with me now See, Uncle Ip-Klly' Ip-Klly' You remember how well J Jumped Jump-ed when I fooled the Wooslo Wolf "' Indeed I do." spoke the bunny "But now I can't leap at all," went on Jumpy. "Watch me' He gave a spring, but without his lonp tall he h.ul nn oalance and over I and over he tumbeld In a somersault. h. dear' This Is too bad'" sighed ' Nnrflo Jnne I You should see Dr. Poasum right away," said. Uncle Wigglly. 1 "I went to his office, but he was out,' cried Jumpv Mouse "And then I went where Jollle and Jiilie and Squeakie Eekie live." "And we told him to come to you!" squealed Squeakie. "Can't you fix the tail of Jumpy Mouse. Uncle Wlggll ! ' "If you don't I can never jump again.' said the poor somersault Ing i rertture I ncie Wigglly twinkled his pink rnrr ttilcp n 1 ihrpi. times He I always old that when he was thinking I hard. "Hal 1 have it! suddenly cried the bunny rabbit gentleman "Wrait here a minute. Jumpy Mouse I'erhaps I can make your tall longer so you can Jump as you ousht to." Uncle Wigglly hurried into the bath room of his hollow stump bungalow and there ho found a little piece of thin rubber hose Tho tube was not much larger than a knitting needle and had once belonge.l to a squlrter ball that Uncle Wigglly had bought With which to play a trick on Nurse-Jane. Nurse-Jane. "A bit of this rubber hose will make just the piece of tail Jumpy Mouse needs, ' thought the bunny gentleman With the thin rubber hose he hurried down to the yard again. It did not take a moment to 6llp one end of the Utle hooc over the end of Jumpy S cutoff cut-off tail. Oh. it Just fits' ' cried the jumping mouse, and it's Just the same color as my tail." See if .vou can jump with it, ' said Uncle Wlggilv Jumpy Mouse gave a little run, and then sprang Into the air. His new rubber tall dangled out behind him -4 j and held him upright, and balanced i Just as a kite tall keeps a paper toy straight Down came Jumpy Mouse ten feet from where ho started, and he didn't turn n single somersault 1 "Oh, how glad I am'" he cried Now I'm all right' Thank you. I'ncie Wigglly!" Jumpy'i rubber tall made his as good as now, and ever -body was happy And If the goldfish doesn't dtp the pen In the gluo bottle and make ,t stick fast to the wall paper. pa-per. I'll tell you next about Uncle i( Wigglly and the stick ticks. H oo H |