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Show BEDTIME STORIES I BY HOWARD R. GARIS H UNCLE WIGGITA AND IHE HALLOO HAL-LOO s (Copyright. 1920. by HcClUTC Newi-' paper Sy ndicate ) (1J Howard R. t.aiiv.) Lncle Wigfflly Longeer.i, the nice1 bunny rabbit gentlsmnn, was hopplrjr down the path Of Woodland, near the orange lee Mountain., on his way to look for an adventure Here and there, swinging on the gates or hanging hang-ing over the fences in front of their houses, were the different animal children. chil-dren. Hello. T'nclo WiggllyV" cilled Sam-, mle and Susie Llttletall, the rabbit children. ''Where are vju ipolng?" "To look tor an adventure," answered an-swered the bunny "Well, please bring rs something when you come back." begged Susie I win." promised Uncle Wlgglly. Then he passed the hollow tree house, where Johnnie and BIPIr Uunhv tall, the spilrrels lived. They, too when they heard where Mr. I.ongears Was fcolng. called to him: "Pleaso orlng vis something when you come back!' I will ' said Uncle Wlgglly So It was all the way down the Woodland path. Lulu, Alice and Tlrr.-mle Tlrr.-mle VYIbhlcwobble. the ducKs Jackie and Peetle Row Bow. Tommle. Jole and Kittle KaL Curly and Floppy TwlstytalL the pigs All of them, when thev henrd that L'ncle YVlgglly was gr.ing off to look for nn adventure called. Please hrlng us something!" "I Will!" promised tho bunny robblt gentle-man. and. when Mln ;llrHe Janej Pur.zv Wusty, his muskrat lady house-1 keeper, heard him say this, she laughed until her whiske-rs tickled the back of her neck 1 "Dear me' If Uncle Wlgglly brines' something bark for every hoy and girl t animal In Woodland he'll have his, paws full," thought the muskrat lady But l'ncle Wlgglly twinkled his pink nose In more Jolly fashion than ever and he smiled until his whiskers' tlekhd hi tall silk hat and he said: "I'll bring back something for each one of you.'' I On and on he hopped, over the fields and through the woods, look-i look-i Ing for an adventure, but- ho couldn't I seem to find any. I "Well. If I enn't hav? an adventure ' I'd rather he looking for something! to hrlng back to the animal children." j thought the bunny. Let's see. howl 'many are there one. tvvo. ihree. six-' I teen, foity 'loven Yets, that 3 quite i a few. Now I wonder what I ran J bring them so that one will not want what the other has? Let me see!" As Uncle Wlgglly was sitting on a i hollow moss covereel -log. thinking away, he heard a voice shrrlng' Who will buj a cood balloon, Also one of blue0 I have green and blue? I have green and yellow ones, Just the shade for you'" "Ha! Balloons! The very thing." , laurhed the bunny T can bring cadi animal child a balloon. The balloons will be all alike, except for th Color, and each one will be satisfied He there!" he called. ' Where are you, with your balloons'7" "Here I am." answered the voice, J and out from the bushes came a hand H organ monkey doodle gentleman with exactly forty "leven balloons tied to string floating over his head. ' I'll take them all." said Uncle Wig- MM c 1 1 ; . sliding forty 'leven pieces of money out of his tall silk hat. "Good!" chattered the balloon mon- H key. I'm glad lo sell them all at once as I want to go back down B South where it is nice and warm for the winter. Take the balloons, but you had better let the- wind out of them to carry them through the 1 woods, or some sharp thorn might H and burst uc or two." , I wiil," said Uncle Wiggily. Then he loovcned the strings, let out the H air, and. with the balloons all flabby I like nnd soft, so he could stuff them H 'all in his pockets, off started the H I bunny rabbit gentleman. H He had not gone very far before. H jail of a sudden, h heard a crackling In the bushes behind him, and a voice H "I see him' I'll get him! Now I ll have some souse!" H l'ncle Wlgglly gave one look back, H saw the l,id old .skuddlemagoon, and H 'then the bunny began to run. But, H as fast he he ran, the Skuddlcma- H goon ran after him. H "I'll get you' I'll get you'" howled I ine iSKuuaiemagoon, .ma, really, it looked as though he might. The bad f chap almost had hold of Uncle Wig- 1 1 , -1 s eo.it tails, when the bunny gave H a most extraordinary Jump and land- H '-d on the other side of a brook. H "Oh. Ill get you yet!" howled the Skuddle chap, but, as ho was not a good Jumper, and was afraid of get- j ting his paws wet, ho had to look for a bridge on which to cross the stream. I ' This la your chance cried the mon- H key doodle balloon chap, who was J running along In the tree tops over head, on his way down South. "Take the flabby balloons from your pocket, l'ncle Wlgglly. and blow them up I'll help you. Tnen fasten the forty 'leven blown up balloons, by their strings. all around you and they'll lift you up like an air ship and you can get away from the Skuddlemagoon He'll soon be here, for he has found a So Uncle Wiggily. with tho mon key's help, blow up the forty 'leven balloons. When the last one waf filled with air and fastened to the bunny up he rose, for he was much lighter than the hand organ chap. I'P In tb. i!r -ailed I nele Wlgglly, carried bv the to balloons, and he sailed away just as the Skuddlcma-goon Skuddlcma-goon rushed along. H "Fooled again!" howled the bad chap, who got no sousn after all The bunny sailed to his hollow stump bun-galow bun-galow with balloons for the animal j children who were very glad to get them. So everything came out all right, and. If the dill pickle doesn't fall Into the condensed milk and get so stuck up It will not play with the vinegar jug. I'll tell you about Uncles 'Wiggily ami the white butterfly. |