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Show m i BEDTIME STORIES H BY HOWARD R. GARIS fH l .NCLK WIGGELY WD THE RACE. EjH Once upon u time, as Uncle Wigglly IH Longcars. the nice gentleman rabbi'.. Il was asleep on the porch of his hollow sJ stump bungalow, Nurse Janu Fuzzy f B' Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, XV gently tickled his whiskers near his V-lmh pink, twinkling nose, and said. jH Wiggy. dear, will you go to the store for m? " ..H "I will, "answered Uncle Wigglly. -(H si'eezlng and sitting up j ' Dear me! I hope you aren't taking wfl cold!" cried Nurse Jane I H '"No. I was Just taking a sleep" laughed the bunny gentleman "1 11 fH hurry to the store for you now. What . do you want?" bread and i me raisins.' &BH - nswored the muskrat lady, so L'ncl-J -' io'Klly tool; a l..ask t ami hurried off W "-et them. He safc) reached the QBp ' d -nd was halt' wa hack being HHEjj w 7 home of Sammi- and Susie K2H j. t lie rabbits, when, all of a ilB out from behind a lassafras- IHS y !, Jumped the bad old Skee- ESH ' tig and lanky and thin. 1 This Is the lime I'll get you jH Lde some souse'" howled the ggH 5 .1 and skinny Skcc. BjH 1 won't get me without a race' ' I RVe Uncle Wigglly, and awav BH 1 cd. Iiut the Skee hopped after I h'l Jusl tfdng to catch t-JtM , igrily when the bunny gentle- Ifll I ppened 19 we. out in front of j : Llttletall's house, a clothes Where Mrs. LittlQtail had been pome Ironed clothee. :w j I'll i ' "ii the bat ol 'JMM lh : I. or-. and g.-t i.,l of Hie iH I j cried the bunny as he Jumped jyl the back of the wooden steed. 'MBB I j I'll ga you!" cried the bad iirYj Skee. and he raced after L'ncle kk9I I y so last that he almost caught 2H ' the trotting clothes horse. But SS 1 it time l uc le W igglly was near jfl me of Johnnie and Blllie Buahy-J ;Ri ho squirrel3. Out in front lie HL saw horae, left there by Grand - A 'hackum. the beaver gentleman. H ?- had been building a new porch w "' 1 ' l' lie !e.:ll.-d board-. JfKfiji " oil the lnue Imim ' crhaps the saw horse iii go fast- fjM fr than the clothes horse." said Unci" Wigglly. So he leaped from the back 'Im of the clothes horse to tho back of ) the saw horse, and kept on with the race. Hut still the Skcezjcks kept af- tor the bunny. "I'll get you yet; and your soue, too!" howled the bad chap. L'ncle JdH Wigglly was racing hard, but had all JH he could do to keep the saV horse Just ahead of the Skee Then, in front of where Jackie and JH Pcetie Bow Wow lived I neb- w lggd XM saw where the doggie boys had been rjB plaing with their rocking hors? "I'erhaps the rocking horse will g: faster than either the clothes horse JBm or the saw horse!"' thought l'ncle Wig- lOB gily. So he leaped from the back of mM the horse to'the back of the rock- "Gel U. now, like a good fellow, and j help mo win this iuce and keep ah. a-.I of the Skeo until I et home with the I loaf of broad and tlo mmms in the T) i basket for Nui"se Jane'" begged the 3 bunny. 9 ' I II do my best!" neighed the rock-! 1 log hore, as ho galloped off, with ap i ii.!.- Wigglly on his back .il But after him still came the bad I jA , SI;.-.-, ri im.' ii cder than i er If 111 get you yet! I must have el" how led ii,, bad chap Undo J w igg was almost home now, and the .jjphing horse wn doing his best. I "Can you go any farther, my brave I chap"' naked l'ncle Wigglly patting the leather ears of the wooden rock-lug rock-lug horse. , I'll do my best." was the answer. ' If i only had my roller .skates on we could surly race away from tho bad Skeo. Have you any roller skates In the basket?1 "Ala;., no"' answered the bunny rab-j rab-j Lit "All 1 have in the basket la a. Iff loaf of bread and some raisins." H "Well, lake home of the stones, or H seed-j. out of the raisins and throw H them at the Skee,' advised the rock- H ing horse. "They may stop him. as I cannot run, trot, gallop, pace or canter much farther. H "I'll do it" cried l'ncle Wlggilx So sitting on tho back of the rocking H horse, the bravo bunny gentleman took H some of the stones out of the raisins, H knowing Nurse Jane would not care. "Therel Take those!" cried Uncle Br1 Wigglly, throwing the rasin itonea .' BT tbe Skeezicks, who was racing along i behind the rocking horse hi f0 . ' Pdoh! Stuff and nonsense! As If I a J cared for them!" t.nlckered the Skee. Whl "Now I'm going to get your souse:' I Tho Skee was Just going to give a ' big Jump and catch Uncle Wigglly. for the bunny's rocking horse could not go 1 on much farther, when, all of a sud den. Uncle Wirrglly saw a horse chestnut chest-nut tree Just ahead. "Oh. mj friend, Mr. Horse Chestnut Chest-nut Tree'" cried the bunny, "shaKe j some of your hard kernels at the bad : Ske and stop hira from chasing me!" I "Well, my hers? chestnuts are rather rath-er green yet, but they have stlckery pickers on " answered the kind Mr. Tree. "So I 11 do my beet!'.' Then, Jus: as the Skeen came under, and as Un- ' cle Wigglly raced along on the back of the rocking hors?. Ihe tree shook down some hard stlckery nuts on tcp of th Skee "Oh, wow! Oh. Jitney cars! Oh, conglomeration!' con-glomeration!' howled the bad chap. ' I guers I don't want Uncle Wlggllv's souse after all!' So the Skee ran back and tho bunny won the race, and ho I ias very glad and so am I. And. if the tack puller doesn't yank j the tall out of the feather duster and make it look like a bald-headed eagle, tho next story' "HI bo about Uncle Wieglly end the torn handkerchief. oo I |