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Show BEDTIME STORIES I H BY HOWARD R. GARIS INC IE WK.OILY AND THE PIE. I opyrlght 1920, by MeClur Newspaper Newspa-per Syndicate, Will you please put up a lunch for ne today, Nurse Jane. ' said Cr.cle lYIggily one morning as he started to OOP out of the red. white mI blue Griped bungalow oh, excuse me. I nean hollow stump house. "Tut you up a lunch what In tho ivcrld tor?" asked Miss Fuzzy 'Wuzzy, he mu6krat lady housekeeper. "Well, I am going for a long walk, ;o look for an adventure." replied tho Imnny rabbit gentleman, "and I don't ivapl to have to come all the way back for my Junch. So put me lip little snack,' as Jackie or Pectlc Bow Wow might say." NUTSS Jane said she would, and she made some carrot and lettuce sandwiches, sand-wiches, some picked turnips, and then she looked In the pantry for something c-xtra good I note tylggil) is very fond of cherry pie," thought Nurse Jane "I'll put a piece in his lunch." si n slipped .i Ki'iieiiius sine ui ur in wic hivkci and tie was just going to close it! when Mrs Wlbblcwobble, the duckl larly, ( ailed to ask about the best way of baking kk "I'll tell you how to do It.' soldi Nursi Jane going out on tho back porch. Just then I nclo Wigglly who had been out on the front porch, looking up at the sky to see If It would rain, ci me In the kitchen Ho saw his lunch partly put up and noticed the cut pie on the table. 1 II just slip in an extra plere of pie for myself," said the bunny rabbit, with a twinkle of his pink nose So he did. and then he wvnt upstairs to get his old red white and blue rheumatism rheuma-tism crutch, for he didn't want to take his best one this time. Nurse Jane cams In from the back nnn -iftr fnHlnr- t VVll.KI. ti-rK ble, the duck lady, how to boil lolly-peps, lolly-peps, and the muskrat lady said. ' Now. I might as well glve l'ncle! Wlgglly two pieces of pie a well as! one It looks as if he'd been in here, helping himself to a slice, " she went! on. 'but no matter 1 So she slipped' her second piece of pic Into the lunch! basket, making three In all Then Mrs.' Bushytall, thr squirrel lady, called Nurse Jane to the telephone to nslc about putting hooks and eyes In o bed I Spread to stop It from falling out of the crib And while Nurse Jane wasl talking on the telephone Uncle lg-gil) lg-gil) came in tho kitchen again. "I'll Just slip myself a second piece of pie," h said, blinking his nose Nurse lane may forget to give me Bny " So he cut another slice and put It In the lunch basket, making one, two. three, four In all ' Well, good by." called Uncle Wig-glly Wig-glly to Nurse Jane, slinging his lunch basket over his shoulder i '( h, wait s minute! i waa going to Mie ou an extra piece of pie'" called I he muskrat lady, at the last minute., "Oh, that's very kind of vou." said Ur.ole Wlgglly, with a bllnklo of his! left eyelid. "But as my lunch basket1 in closed, wrap the pic in a piere of paper and I'll put It In my pocket." "This will be three pieces I've plvenl h,m. but no matter,' thought Nurse' ' 1 B ft Inne, and she cut another slice of f cherry pie And she dldn t know a I thing about the other two pieces the bunny h.id cut for himself. Along and alon? walked Uncle Wig- f pily. looking for an adventure, with Ms lunch baBkct over his shoulder. But adventures seemed to be scarce that day I I guess I'll sit down on a log and eat the piece of cherry pie from my I pocket ' said the bunny. So down he t oat and he was Just eating the pie I and letting the red Juice run down E hit paw, knowing he could v aah It f. off later, when, all of a sudden, out ficm behind a cinnamon bush Jumped lithe li-the unpleasant old Whiffle Whaffle. I The Whiffle Whaffle had two heads nnd faces and while ono was aslefp jt I th other was awake. E "Ha' Give me that cherry pie!" cried the bad W hlffle Whaffle, most Lunpolltely, prabMng the slice from i ,,, Lo Wigglly's paws "I like cherry !L 'Bp lo I.' said the bunny, "but I if never grub It away from other folks I However I'd rather have you do that t tl a lake my souse And I think 1 if can tool ou. for that Is not the only ft pie i have- ' So while the Whiffle Whaffl with hlc one face asleep and the other t awake, ate the piece of pie, Uncle f Wlgglly reached In his lunch basket ' and took out a second piece. 6 Ha! That's funny'" cried the bad Whiffle Whaffle, as he saw the bunny eating more pie "I never knew that tl,cre could be two pieces of pie In the "Oh. yes," said l'ncle Wlggllv cas- f Well III take that pioce too!" ''led the hid hap. and before Uncle f IW.gglly could take more than three IH I bites the Whiff Whaff (as I call him If '" Short) grabbed the second piece of I 1iv miu suuuicu ll up ' Well, I still have another." laughed ! the bunny and, reaching in, he took out the third slice. The Whiffle Whaffie was so surprised sur-prised he nearly fell over backwards i a "Well, you can't have any more af- I "r that, sneered the unpleasant ani- I mal. I'll take the last piece of pie.:" He grabbed It away from Uncle Wigglly .who- was very sad. "Yes, I guess that s the last of the I pie." said the bunny, but his paw hap- ; pened tj slip into the basket, and he t felt tlll another piece of olc. f "Well" Well'" exclaimed" Uncle Wlg-flly, Wlg-flly, as he brought out the fourth piece of pie. "Oh! h: Oh" screamed the Whlf-fie Whlf-fie Whaffie "You aren't a bunny I rabbit at all You're a magician you j can bring forty "leven pieces of plo from that basket If you wish, and you j can turn me Into a Snipper Snapper I if you choose to' h, this is no place I for me!" rind away he rftn and L'ncle j Wiggily had all the pie that was left. And I had an adventure. too." laughed the bunny. "but I never 'bought I had so much pic Though ( I'm glad I did " And If tho Ice cream If doesn't melt and run a race with ths I blackberry Jam down tho back of the rocking chair, I II tell vou next about Curie Wlgglly In the hay. j |