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Show BEDTIME STORIES BY HOWARD R. GARIS . I'.NCLE V. IC.GILY'S WHITE (TROUSERS. Copyright, ir2i, by McOlure Newspaper Newspa-per Syndicate, (By Howard R, Carls). "Well, they have come," ald Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, one day as she walked around the hollow slump bungalow toi the front porch L'nclc to Igglly, the bunny rabbit gentleman, was sitting on the porch reading the Cabbage l eaf Qasaette "They re here." went on Nurse Jane, 'and I hope you'll like them." I "Do you mean that some compiny has come'" cried Uncle Wlgglly, jump-' Ing up so qulrkly that the rocking chair almost turned a back somcr- j sault. Of course. I like company, Nurse Jane, yen know I do. and I m so glad they have come! 1 it Cnelc liutter. the goat, or Mr. Whitewash, j the Polar Bear gentleman?" Neither one." answered Mls-s PuX-7 PuX-7 Wuzzy "It Isn't rompir.v that has eome. I'ncle Wlgglly; It is your, new white trousers just came from the seven and eiirht ceht store." 'White t refusers, My white trous-era?" trous-era?" cried I'ncle Wlgglly. I didn't know I had any. Nurse Jane." "You didn't until I went downtown yesterday and bought vou slme," laughed the muskrat lady. "I saw srtmc and 1 thought ou'd ttke them", "Oh. ehe Idea! Me In white trousers! trous-ers! I never wore them In my life, that I remember" cried Mr. Longsars. "Why, I'd look like a painter: wouldn't "Not .it all." sabl Nurse Jan" "White trousers, at this time of yeai , ;ire ery stylish, and proper Put them on. Unci" Wlgglly, nnd ,1"KC' n" over to Mr" Wlbbb wohble's house. I promised to -call on the duck lady." "Well, Til take you," said l"no'.ei Wlgglly, "but I will not weir white! trousers! All the anlm-vl hoy3 and Kirls will laugh at me. And the bovs, would call: "'Who paint the houses"' 1'neie Wlgglly in white trousers!' " "Oh, they wouldn't do anything of the kind!" said Nurse Jane "You'd look lovely In them. Uncle Wlggll) Do please put on the white trousers and come with me. But while Uncle Wlgglly loved Nurse Jane andsrould do almost anything for her. he did not want to wear the 'white trousers she had bought fori him. . ii "Yes, they are very nice and shiny , and clean." said the bunny, ns the muskral lady took them from the pn-pr pn-pr nnd showed him ' And I'm much obliged to you for getting them for me But I simply can't wear them. They would make me look so rirkadoodllus-llke rirkadoodllus-llke and fanciful." "Nonescnse!" spoke Nurse Jane 'However, if you don't wish to wear them, far be It from me to urrre you. I'll go over to Mrs. Wibblevobblc s by; mvself. Oood-by." Out of tho bungalow flounced Miss Fuzzy Wussy. leaving Uncle Wlgglly With, his white trousers. "It's too bad to disappoint Nurse, Jane," Bald acls Wlgglly to himself, when his muskrat lady housekeeper bad gone " I s pose I might wear those white trousers for once. It wouldn't harm me to he laughed at. I 1 11 put them on and sec how I look. ( Uncle Wlggll) slipped his legs Into . '.he w-hite garments and paraded up and down In front of his rlnsJ. They aren't so bad' said the bunny bun-ny to himself "I might wear them out on the porch, and If I feel too funny I can, come back. But I don't believe I'll get as far as Mrs. Wibble-wobblo's." Wibble-wobblo's." , However, when I'ncle Wlgglly went out In his white trousers no one eemed to notice him or make any fun of him All the animal hlldren were. In school and Grandfather C.oos lander, lan-der, the only friend Uncle Wlgglly met glance'd at the bunny and said: "Mv. hew chipper and stylish you look. Uncle Wlgglly. " "So you like my white trous?rs. do you?" asked Mr Longears. .j I "Very much," said the gand?r gentleman gen-tleman j "Then I guess after nil I'll go to i Mrs. Wibhlewobble's and let Nurse, 'Jane see how I look." thought tin bunny gentleman. So off he hopped and when th due!; lady and Nurse Jane saw him coming they each said: "Oh, how stunning!" "Glad you like 'em," spok : Uncle Wlegily, modest like and shy. "Come In and have some cake and ilea." invited the duck lady. So Uncle Wlgglly did and he had 'such a nlep time visiting In his ivhfrte trouserb that he stayed longer than he Intended At last Nurse Jane looked at the clock and said' "Oh. Uncle Wlgglly, how late it Is' We must hurry home!" So they started over the fle'd and ihrouch the woods, but thev had not gone very far before It rew very binek and dark. A storm was coming up", and they were far from their hollow stump bungalow. I "Oh. I'ncle Wlgglly!" cried Nurse Jane "I don't know which way to I !go, It's so dark I can't see th? path." "I can't either," said the bunny. "And I think It Is coing to rain soon. Oh, how dark it Is! We shall never, never he able to see our wav home!" I'ncle Wlgglly and Nu.-se Jane were stumbling and tumhllng i;bout In the .dark woods, and hc storm was com-I com-I Ing nearer and nearer, nnd they didn't know where the bungalow was. and I they were all excited like, when, all of a sudden, a voice cried: "Wait a minute! Stand still, Uncle Wlgglly, and I'll conic and get you I can see very well m account of your I white trousers. Stay where you arc and I'll come to yon."' "Who are you '" asked the bunny, hoping It was not the Pipslsewah "I am Mr. Kal ihe fa. her of Tom-mie. Tom-mie. Joie and Klttie ICat," was tho answer. "I can see very well In the dark, and your white trousers are especially es-pecially plain to me I'll lead you cut of the woods," Up came Mr. K.it to where he could see Uncle igglly's whl'.e trousers, and BOQn the bunny gentleman and Nurse I Jane were safely le d to their bungalow bunga-low which they reached safe and .sound Just as the stqrm broko. "But I never would have seen you if it had not been for your white Irou- ser : said Mr. Kat as lie borrowed an umbrella and skipped home t'.rouch the rain So this teaches us that sometimes It I Ik all right to bo a little stylish, and If .the flatlron doesn't try to slide down the bread board nnd maybe, for all I r I know bunk into the clothes lorse and make it jump. I'll tell you next .about I'ncle Wlgglly helping the teacher. I |