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Show j BEDTIME STORIES" :J I BY HOWARD R. GARIS i --t I VOLE WK.i.IIVn l Tl 1 N 11 A I 1 Copyright 1920, h McClure News- jTB f paper Syitdicai dty HOWARD R (.'.itis., HI Jnc day as Uncle Wlggiiy was out Hfl in the woods, looking around for an II adventur' what would 1 happen When he found one. he peered HI j through the trees and hushes and then HJ he rubbed his eyes. Mil 'Dear mi I 'J himself, as he twinkled his pink none. 'I shall have to get a new pair of glasses if this happens very often My res do not otten play tricks n me like this It looked to me as though 1 saw a sassafras hush walking along But of course that could ne,ver hap-I hap-I pen." Uncle Wlggiy walked along a Utile farther, hoping he was not going to have trouble with his eyes, when, all .11 Once, h. took off his glasses. "Something surely is wrong. ' said the bunny gentleman. "I am almost eertaln that 1 saw a branch from n maple tree doing a hop, skip and a Jump. But of course thai could never happen. " So Uncle Wlggiiy went along a little) farther, having rubbed his glasses on his silk handkerchief. He out them on aaln and peered through them 'But no sooner and he done so than he cried: t "Goodness me sakes alive! I wonder what is the matter today? I'm almost sure I saw a little oak tree off there in the woods trying to stand on its head. But of course that 1 ould nevei happen Still it is very strange thai I have three times seen what 1 though' were branches moving, and the wind isn't blowing either This is very 6trange!" ; UrlCle Wiggily sat down on a log. j and he was Just going to twinkle his pink nose to see if therewas anything I wrong with thai when, all of a sudden It seemed as it all about htm little i , trees, bushes and shrubs .all bearing ' prettily colored leaves, began to move I ubout and bob here and there. And f some voices cried. Hello. L'ncle Wiggily!" loudness me sakes alive and some roller skate lollypops'." cried the bunny uncle. "Bushes talking as well! . moving. This could never happen :" j L And then, to his surprise, the branches and leaves seemed to fall to the ground, and there stood Bammiol I and Susie Llttletail. the rabbit children i Jackie and Peetle Bow Vow, the! puppy dog boys, and Johnnie and' BUUe Bushytail, the squlrrols "What are you doing?" asked Un- le Wiggily, as he "saw that It was the branches, carried by the animal children, chil-dren, which had moved about. The j leaves hid thee hlldren from sight, n "We are gathering autumn leaves." I -:. barked Jackie. I I ' For the ladv mouse teacher in the HSh ,' hollow stump school," chattered Bil Me. t tho squirrel. What is she going to do with Ewl them'"' asked Uncle Wiggily. Is she HI oing to make a bonfire of the dried "No, Indeed," answered Susie, tho rabbit girl. "The lady mouse teacher said the autumn leaves were so beauti- fjpyH ful that she warned some to put 199 around the school room So she let us BH out early and we gathered bushes. BH branches and little trees. See, aren't 9Hfl the leaves beautiful. L'ncle Wiggily'.'" "Indeed they are." answered the rabbit uncle, as he looked at the red. BJB purple, gulden brown, yellow and jgSBSlj greenish leaves on the branches the nKH animal Children had gathered. "They bBB are more beautiful than 6ome. picture- IBBSi , I hae seen. I think 1 shall take some BB home to Nurse Jane to put on the BB walls of my hollow stump bungalow BBB ITes .that's uhnt rn do ' BBJ So Uncle Wiggily broke off some BBJ hranches of the autumn leaves, choos- BBJ ng the brightest colors he could find. BBl Soon he had a large bunch of autumn BL foliage which he carried , shouldei BL Just a? I nrie Wiggily and the anl- BBl' mal children were leaving the forest PBJF with their branches of autumn leaves, tftCE Peetle Bow Wow. who had run on BlBJ ahead, came racing softly back, whts- BBa BBl "Oh, L'ncle Wiggily , the big hear is BBl out there at the end of the path. " BBv "Which big beat ?" asked the bunn BBJ centloman. BBJ "The one who tried to get you when BBJ jou were down cellar, looking at jour BBl carrots." went on the doggie boy. "The BBJ :-anie bear you fooled by tying carrots BBJ on your back and making believe you BBl We Mr Hedgehog Porcupine. That BBl same bear's out at the end of the BAV BBl "Is he is he waiting for me " ask- ed the bunny, as he put his bunch of BJI autumn leaves on his other shoulder BBJJ "That's what he was saying,' spoke BBJI Peetle l heard him muttering. I'll bBJI get hiin sure, this time: Now I'll get BBJl L'ncle Wiggily!' " BBbI "Dear me!" exclaimed the hunny BBl "How can I escape that bear?" BBl "I know how'" quickly whispered HL Suali When we carried the bunches BV Of leaves, l'ncle Wiggily, you could not BC ee us hecause we were hidden under BB them. You thought the bushes wer Bjf' moving" Bj said I r.' bunnj "i . 1 1 1 1 tJSB Well, now you have some leaves." dBj went on Susie. "Hold them over your Blfli mail a? we do, and walk along. The bear will think you are just a sassa-jfras sassa-jfras bush moving, and it may score I him so he'll t un away." "i ll do It," wh spe'red. L'ncle wiggily. So the bunny held his bunch or au-'tumn au-'tumn leaes over his head, as the ani-imal ani-imal children did. And L'ncle Wiggily ;and Susie and all the rest marched i right past the big leai : underneath -their branches of foliage, j 'Sniff: Sniff' we,u the bear. who; I had a cold in his head and couldn't .smell very well. "There goes a lot 'Of bushes and leaves blown Us tho 'wind, but I don't see L'ncle Wiggily .However I'll v. a i In-re until he does come out." And ho had a verv long , wait, 'hat bear did. So the bunny gut utelv past the bear, under the branches of autumn leaves .ind so did the animal children, who wen: safely home, and the bear was fooled. Now if the pussy cat doesn't tak the rubber off the end of the pencil. s0 it gets wet feet when it makes black 'marks on the bath tub. I ll tell voir next about Uncle Wiffgily and the ! : cfc s'.nuts. |
