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Show BEDTIME STORIES I BY HOWARD R. GARIS INCLE WK;.I!A AND THE . CHIMNEY. Copyright. 1920. b fticClufe Ncwspa- per Syndicate. The Pip nd tho Skec wore talking, t gopher. An.l they weren t speaking ii bout the weather. Said the Pip to the Skee: "I'd like some souse!" uld the Skec lo the I !p 'Try (Jncle V Igglly's house'' So the two ban animals, who. many ., ml mans a time ha, I chased after tho I bunny rabbit gentleman, once ugaln si.irted for his house, or rather, the hollow stump bungalow. "How do you s'pose we can get his souse," asked the Skeezicks as he skipped along beside hu3 friend, the Plpalsewah. ' Eet mo think a moment," answered tho Pip, as I call him for short, though to bo sure, his tall was lather long.' And Just then, pretty soon, the two bad' chaps came within siKht of iho bungalow. bunga-low. Nurse Jane Pussy Wuzzy. ihe muskrat lady housekeeper. was Just getting (Jnch Wiggily's dinner, cooking cook-ing it on tho stove, and a lot of smoke was coming out of the chimney on tho roof. As soon as tho Pip saw the smoke while he and the Skeezicks ere hiding In the bushes, the 1'lp said: "See that' There Is a way by which we can get Lncle Wigglly'a souse' 1 What do you mean' B.. that smoke ' ' asked the Skcezlcks "Pooh' Nonsense and loilypops! I don't see how smoke coming out of a chimney Is going to help us to nibble souse off a bunny rabbit s ears. Smoked hams are all right but smoked soumc I never heard of such a tnlng! ' and the Skee scratched his nose on the end of his tall and looked to seo If any wild strawberries were growing on the pumpkin vine under which he was hiding. W, .irr not going to get smoked sous,, ' laid the Pip. "This Is what we 11 do ne of us will climb up on Uncle Wiggily's bungalow roof and stop up the chimney hole with a bunch of grass." "What good will that do?" asked the Skee ' Well, then, the smoke, Instead of coming out of ihe Chimney as It ought J will pour out into the rooms. It will go'. In the eves and nose of l ncle WIt-glly WIt-glly and Nurse Jano and they won't' know what they're doing L ncle Wig-1 gily will run out to get away from the! smoke Then we'll grab hint!" "Hum " said the Skee. "That sounds pretty good." But of course, to ou and me and also to Uncle glly, if he had heard it. that would ha.e sounded pretty bad. We'll do lit, ' said the Skee. 'Who'll get up on ;lhe roof and stuff a bunch of grass 111 the chimney?'' "I will," offered the Pipslsewah "And when I'ncle Wiggily runs out, you grab him. But mind, you save me some of his souse!" H I will!" promised the Skcezlcks. So tho Pip began to pull big paws full Of grass and then, when Cncle Wlg-gil3 Wlg-gil3 and Nurse Jane didn't see him, ho climbed up on the bungalow roof, the J Pip did and he stuffed up tho chtm- II Miss Pussy Wuzz, the musejrat. ladv, was Just pulling some more wood on the fire, to cook Undo Wiggily some orange lollypop pancakes, when, all of j a sudden, the stove began to smoke. j Ulg clouds of smoke poured out Into the kitchen. 1 "Oh. Uncle Wiggily! Com here: Something Is the matter'" cried Nurse Jane. The stove is smoking like ( e.-.tlng, rushed out with his napkin in paw. The chimney must have blown down'.' trier Nurse Jane. Just then H I'ncle Wiggily looked from the win- 1 dow and saw the Skee sneaking around oi tside. .Ml at once the bunny knew what had happened. H It s a trick. Nurse Jane!" he cried. "A trick to get my souse! The Pip has a paw in this. He is trying to smoke us out But he shnll not!'' "How can you atop hlin''" asked the muskrat lad "The smoke Is getting get-ting thicker and thicker. It's all coming com-ing out In the kitchen Instead of going nt the chimney! Oh, what shall we "I'm going to make a new chimney, or tove pipe, and put it out of the Indow," :.ald tho bunny "I'll let tbo-smok tbo-smok out that wav through another pipe.'' "But where will you get It?" cried Nur9e Jane. j "I'll make another stove pipe out of a lot of my old black, tall silk hats'. ' cried the hunnj, "Them must be a idozen old ones up in the attic. You i' them! I'll cut the tops off. fasten them together Into something like a i pipe and the smoke will go out jot them through the window. Instead of out of the stopped-up chimney " I No sooner said than done Nurse J me tcot the old. tall hats, I'ncle Wig-" 'glly fastened them together into a' j stove pipe, took down the pipe that went to the kitchen chimney hole and iiiiit that pipe in the stack of tall hats. Then he Stuck the hats out of the window, aiid the smoke went through them out that way as nicely as you pic ise "Fooled again!" cried the Pip. as hi slid do-.Mi oft' the roof "Who'd ever 8 pese he could mal i i chimney out of old tall stove-pipe hats? Oh, wow! Wuff!" So h and the Skee got nil soust after ill, and I'm glad, aren't you And If the Jumping Jack doesn't turn the pump handle wrong sidj fiont. so it puts molasses in the pitcher instead of milk, 111 tell vou next about Uncle Wiggily and the thread. |