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Show BEDTIME STORIES 5 BY HOWARD R. GAR1S I t Wt LE W1GGILY AND SAM Ml I 'S BANJO .iprlghi. tt2u, b Mct lnre News-l News-l m -t Syndicate ( li Vltl R (. Mils ) USicl Wlgglly started the phonograph phono-graph In hla hollow stump bungalow one day when. Juat after he had listened list-ened to a record w here a piano played a sort of tag ?ong with a tin horn, there eame a kno"k on the door. "Oooilncn me sake alive' I hope that Isn't the Plpstaewah!" exclaimed Nurse Jane, who was al.io listening to Ibe nhnnoiraDh. "lie la ilre.ulf ullv fond of music almost as food aa he u' of your souse. Uncle Wlgglly. and ". "Don't say that you make me nervous'" exclaimed the rabbit gentle, man, as he looked for another record. ' Besides, I don't bellee fa the Tip." he went on. "No, it Isn't." said Norse Jane, looking look-ing out of the w-lndow. "It's Sammle Dlttlelall. the rabbit boy. and he ha' a cigar box and a broom stick and lot of things in his paws." "Hum sut dud" laughed L'ncle Wlgglly. Wlg-glly. "J suppose he wants me to make him ji hoop, as I did for 5usle " "You can't make a rolling hoop out Of a cigar box,' spoke 'urse Jane. "I don't know about that." answered Unci Wlgglly. "I never tried. But lei Sammle In. and wo'll see what he has to say." Intn tK Hrtllnw otnm n hnnirfttnu- came Sammle. the boy rabbit. oh. l'ncle Wlgglly'" Suminle exclaimed, ex-claimed, trying to make his pink nose twinkle- like his uncle's. "Will you please fix my banjo?" l-'ix your banjo? What's the matter with It? ' the bunnj g ntleman wanted to know. Well, there's lots the matter." Sam-i Sam-i m eplalnd, "In the first place Iti Isn't a banjo at all yet I started to make one out of a cigar box, a broom i handle and some pieces of string, but I guexs I don't know how." "What's a banjo?" asked Nurse Jane. Something to make tlnklly-tlnkle music on," Sammle said,. 'It's, round, and has a handle on like a frying pan, and some strings and a head like a drum. And when you pick the string they go tum-te-tum-lum." and make nice music. You can make a banjo out of a cigar box and a stick for al handle and then you don't have to have H thing on It like a drum head." the rabbit boy went on, "only I don't know how." "Well, let me see If I do " said l'ncle W lggily So ho stopped the phonograph, phono-graph, which wun trlng to keep on playing by Itself, and took the things Sammle had brought over. There was an empty cigar box. a broom handle with the broom part sawed off. and some strings, and also some little pegs to wind the ends of the bunjo strings on to tighten them. and make some play high music note and othera low music notes, like on piano. "Well, I (Uses I can maka a banjo.' aald l'ncle iggtly and then he began ; He ffttrn-l tbe broom handle on on end of tbe tgar box. cut eome holea lln the box to let out the sound, fas- , tened on the strings and then tightened tighten-ed them on the pegs. 'Now i shall sing a ong and play on Sammies cigar box banjo," aald Uncle wiggii;. crossing hi lege and alttlng down on the top step of th hollow- at nmo bunimloW. L The i gat tlemaa rufced the banjo strings, making a nice little music tune, and then he sang. "Oh. ho Nurse Jane. She's a nice muakra.it Phe bakes minced plea. And can trim a hat. 'She keeps tho bungalow Nl e and clean. a She's, 'be bflt housekeeper I have ever seen'" 1 lh, thank you l'ncle Wlgglly!" laughed Mini Fusry WuSBy "I didn't tenon you were such a good minstrel j singer." I Can play another song on my banjo?" asked Pnmmle much de- if ; lighted. I am,' answered I'neia Wlgglly, and j he sang and played this one: M "Sammle the rabbit, M But you muat remember I He Is only a bunny. H "I sing and play H All day long, H But tell me how H You like this song." H And with that, before Sammle or Nurse Jane ouii stop him. l'ncle Wig- f glly suddenly stopped singing, and, 1 giving a hop. skip and Jump off the porch h railed the bunny boy's banJe high In the ulr nnd brought It smaah lng down on the head of thi had Skee ricks, who, Just thon. started to hop OUl from behind a big tree. "There! T- I me how you ,'lke thai cried (Jn Wlgglly, aa ha fl threw the broken banjo after the Skee who ran away crying, "Wow! Wouchl j Scouch!" H "Oh, my nice banjo la all broken!" sadly said Sammle. H N vermlnd, I'll mike ou another." promised l'ncle Wlgglly. "I happened j to see tho ftkoe sneaking up after my , .souse a 1 was singing and playing ind l knew the only way to scare him was to do something surprising. And WM Y. agreed Nurse Jane, "you certainly cer-tainly did!" Hut she found another i Ig.ir box and the bunny made a bettei j tianjo than before and Sammlo learned 1 to play it. Ami when the pepper caster omes up from having gone down In the salt cellar to get some powdered .ik'ir. I'll tell you about Uncle W'lg- i glly and Johnnie's shampoo. H |