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Show I I BEDTIME STORIES 9 BY HOWARD R. GARIS !l UNCLE WIGGITjY AND JIMMHsTSi ZmM . Ji'Mi no lPH Copyright. 1520, by McOlure News- Jl paper Syndicate. M , (By HOW Hl It . IRIS.) Once upon a time, when Uncle Wig- iP gUy was ho.p,i.g i in tugh tii? woods K near the duck pond ocean on a hoi HI - day, he heard some juiiy shouts and I laughter, and also the voices of chll- SkHKT dren calling oiie to the other. r)Lm! "Watch me turn a somersalt!" cried IS one PH "And I can turn a peppersaultl" 'c'Tm shouted another. :.H "I'll try a hli-h dh r '" opoke thli l vH "Ha! that doesn't sound like thei 3H Plpslsewah or Skeczlcks. " ?ald L'nclo WlggUy, with a little laugh, as ho SH peeked through the sassafras bushes. ' QflV and then he saw Jimmy SVlbblewob- .-fll ble, the duck, and Bull) and Bawl tio Mf Tall, tho frog boys, playing on the! NHl. bank of the duck pond ocean, x ' l guess I'll go out ami see them i swim," Bald i ncle vVlggll CsWlj Just as he stepped out fi-om behind I y the lollypop bushes, he heard arcrack-I lng. breaking sound, and Jlmitiie, the iJH boy duck, went tumbling Into the' 'SaiBP pond lafy) "There It goes again!" croaked! "33H Bully, the frog. Did you hurt your- I iJjB self, Jlmmle''" he asked fJJfB j "No," Quacked the boy duck, swim- irSI j mlng around on the duck pond ocean, i m with his feathers rather ruffled, "butj 'joH 1 wish we had a better Jump board--! jjBE one that wouldn't break all the while ' 'k "There must have been some sort! of accident," thought Uncle Wlgglly, I rflHu as he hopped toward the water "What happen. of the duck , frog boys "l'id somebod push Jim- 'fW mle "Oh, no, Uncle Wlgglly," quacked i jkM Jimmle himself, But, you see we H have n sort of jumping spring boaril JM that we use when we dive Into the flH water, but It Isn't any good It keeps I sH breaking all the while when we run j kHi out on It to take a Jump and Splash into the water. It broke Just now with BIH "That's too bad!" said the bunny gentleman, as he looked at the flH cracked and broken board One end I JHB had been fastened o nshore, under) some Htones. and the other end ( w stretched over the w ater. The duck and frog boys walked out on the lQl teetery-tautcry end of the board, jtg- jK. ttled up and down and then they jfM sprang off that In, they did when the board didn't break. IB "But It keeps breaking nil the while." quacked Jimmle "It's too i - I badl" I wish you could get us another board!" croaked Bawly, the frog "I'll try:" promised the bunny rab-jtfM rab-jtfM bit gentleman, and he scratched his yM ( tall silk nose with his black pink hat I yM ' n something like that. rV Then, all of a sudden, Uncle Wig- ftjCy glly had an idea. Yon wail here for nic" he told the H ducji and frog boys. Back to hut hoi- j H j low stump bungalow hopped Uncle M V'.'lggily. "Nurse Jane! Nurse Jane!" 1 1 he called "May I have some?" "Some what?" asked the muskrat ' lady housekeeper. Do you mean some j of the cherry' pie I've Just baked'.'" "Yes, and also some of the big, J broad leaves from your rubber i plant?" went on the rabbit gentleman. I T want to make a springing Jump board for Jimmle the duck." "You can't make a spring board out of cherry pie tho idea!" laughed Nurse Jane. f I wasn't going to. I was going to eat the pie and mako the spring board Hf out of leaves from the rubber plant they 11 stretch and spring," said the bunny. Very well, you may have some," H said Nurse Jane, H Uncle Wlgglly took a lot of the big. long, thick leaves from tho rubber plant and tied them together. Then he cut them into something almost I the shape of a board. Putting this on his shoulder, he started back through the woods. 'You'rg forgetting the cherry' pie"' J cried Nurse Jane after him. "Take j some for the duck and frog boys, too! H Li-"''" So l-'nc,e 'IggHy tlll. and how his IB J0 Pink nose did twinkle, for he loved 1 cherry pie! And, when ho reached jH the edge of the duck pond ocean, I jfl I wish you could have seen Jinunle and M Bully and Bawley' They tried to make S their noses twinkle too, but not being lBSJ pink, they couldn't. However, they could eat chefry pie. and. when they got through, they were pink all over, where the Juice had run down. So that was all right. I Then Uncle Wlgglly put the rubber leaf spring board In plr.ee, add when Jimmle ran out on the end. and bounced up and down, he sprang so , high he nearly toucjied the 6ky. and almost didn't come down until Fourth of July But ai last he splashed Into, the water and he cried Oh! That s a dandy Jump board." j Then Bully and Bawly tried it, and the leaped ofi. those frog boys did and they turned somersaults and pep-persaulta pep-persaulta and did mustard and vinegar vine-gar and horseradiah jumps, and they' had great fun. So the rubber plr.nt made the lies' spring board that h-.n I could wish for. and. being stretchy. It: didn't break And once the old Skee-j sicks tried to slide on It, but he bound-j ed up and then he bounded down and I then Splashed Into the water nnd he cried . "Gurgle' I rgle! Goop! " and ho sneezed forty leen times Then he didn't bother that rubber spring board any more, and the animal boys thmked Uncle Wlgglly and had lots of fun. And. If water doesn't run out of the gold fish bowl and chase the pussy cat s tall around the' corner. I'll tell you next about Lncle Wigglly and the! race. |