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Show i! I BEDTIME STORIES BY HOWARD R. GARIS UNCLE WIGCILY AND THE PINS. Copyright, i?2i. bj afcCIurc N'cwspaper Syndicate "I have something for you to do today. I'nclc AVIggily ' said Nurse Jane Fuzzy WtUfKy, as the bunny gentleman ,'lnlshed hls breakfast of carrot flapjacks in the hollow stump bungalow one mornlnc I 'Good:" said .Mr Uongeara, twinkling 1. his pink nose until you would have thought it woe goinK to turn into a cinnamon cin-namon lollypop "What is It to be Nurse Jam- ' lo you want ine in shoel snow off the front walk or bring in enough Icicles lo fry for dinner"" "Neither one ' anawered the muskrat lady houuekecpi i All I want is lO have you bring mi back some .ins when you gel througli looking for an adventuri today." to-day." "What kind of pins, sa'civ or hal ' ' asked the hunh) rabhit gentleman Just paper pins ' anawered Nurse Jane. "I don't mean pins made ,,f paper Of course not' - shr sall qulcklj for nr saw that Uncle Wlgglly was ro.ni; to malte a joke, "t mean sharp pointed pins thai ni e 1 1 i k In folds of papi i And. besides thai. I want BOme BUn-rlower BUn-rlower seeds I nele W,g'l " "Sunflowi i sr, ds i-Te.i the bunnv twinkling his idnk nose taster than bl -fore. "Are you going to grow sun, to maki. sunshine on dari; uav. Nurse Jane?' 1 No, I am folng lo Lake a cake and, I'll want hundreds anil hundreds ojf sun- flower seed:-, beca.ise they are so small. ' aid Miss i u .z "Please don't forget I now. t'.riru me iak some pins am: i In flower seeda" TH bilng them" promised L'nclc Wlg- glly, and off he hopped over the fields antl through tht woods, humming to himself him-self a little song like this: 1 "Dear Nurse ijnr is going to bake A lovely brown sunflower cake. This !s how my f:ong begins, i must nol forgot her pins " . So Cncle 'lggil hopped along faster T"-. 'r.c over and owi ' blm-, ' lits seeds, a paper of pins Lots' ni seeds, a paper of pins Lota of pins, a paper of seeds no that Ian I ngm lots fif papers, a pin of seeds oh. i ve I i i ij (got to atart all over!" And he did Thus talking to himself. SO ne would! I not forcet what he was aftr. the bunnv I rabbit skipped along looking foi an aa-venture. aa-venture. but he could not seem to find ' an so at last he decided In- had better1 get what Nurse- Jam wanted. Not far away was the six and seven I cent store, nnd. hopping in there Mi Longeara spoke to the nnie mousic giri clerk behind the counter. Baying "I want some pins, tf yon please. Not j hat or Bafotj bui sharp stlcaery pins. . , How. many " asked the hitle girl l mousie. j "Oh. a great many hundreds und hundreds hun-dreds of them," anawered the bunny Nurse Jane wants to put them In a cake." i The little girl mousic looked at Uncle I VViggily In a funnj wa . bin sin- sum j i nothing, for she thought he was trying to plas a joke on her "Well If he wants plenty of pins he II have t0 pay for them. ' she said to herself her-self So she wrapped up about foriy-'ben foriy-'ben sixteen papers of Bharp, stlckery pins, and gave them to the bijnns By this time Uncle Wlgglly ie ii thinking of sunflower seeds, so he really did not notice what was given hi in He paid the mousie girl, put the package pack-age of the papers or tuns in his pocket, I and skipped along to a seen trore. I want a tew sunflower seeds. he i said to the Mnnke Doodle gentleman, behind the counter. "How many?" asked th" Monkey Poo- I die gentleman, taking . up a big scoop to j dig the seeds fiom a barrel wher. he kept them i "Oh Just a few Nurse Jane (a going I to pin up a new dress. 1 suppose.'" said i the bunnv. So the Monkev i-ii,odlc gentleman said nothing, though he looked at I'ncle Wlgglly Wlg-glly In a funnv wa. thinking the bunnv was trvini: to play a trick. "Well. I II give him Jut a few seeds ' said the Monke) Doodle to himself; "if he's trying to he funny. 1 eaii bs that I way. too. and he ll have to eom6 be K i for mere ' So witn a few sunflower seeds In his poCKCtS. where h should have had a i whole iot pf ihm, and anout six': - i I "ley en papers of pins, where he .should have ban only one. Uncle Wiggily hop: I j back to ins noltow stump bungalow, j "Well. Nurrw.- jane," said the raoi.lt I gen lb man. as he opened ihe door, "would i you believe it. but I haven't had a single adventure ti day Not one'" "That Is too bad. said the muslir.it lady. "Bdt did yon get my pins and sunflower sun-flower seeds?'' "i did." said Uncfe Wlggily, -n.d he began tailing out the pins flrc fr..in one pocket and then from another, an 1 fi-nallv fi-nallv from at, bis pockets. "Oh. my!" cried Nurse Jane. "You have made a mistake " "Who. me. I never make mistakes!" BUddenly cried a harsh and unpleasant voice, 'X'ncle Wlgglly Is her" and I'm here! T want him. I never make a ml-take!" ml-take!" And with Uiat In from the nail popped the bad old lioh Cat, with his short tail andtaasles of hair on his ears i nele Wiggilj had forgotten to dove the door anil the Hob Cat had sneaked in "t want Uncle Wlgglly!" howled Hob Cat: "Well, you can't have him' incase get out of here!" cried Nurse Jane .ni! picl'lng up n paper of plnr. In each pgw she threw the tnarp and stlckery things nt the bad chap. "h, wow! h! Dear me' What a way to treat oompaay!" howled Bob Cat j as the pins stuck him. and awav he ran. ! Nurse Jane locked ine. door so pe j couldn'l dome back in, and then she look- ed al the few- sunflower seeas I'ncle ! Wlgglly bad brought. and the many ; many pins. "I I guess 1 made a mistake," said tiic bunny, as he remembered what i Nurse Jane bad told him to bring "No mlst.iki at all! laughed Miss Fussy Wusz. "If you hadn I brought so ! many pins I wouldn't have had QUOUgtl ' to throw at the Bob Cat. Y'ou did Just riejit pui i til ed more sunflower seeds. So the bunnv hopped back and bought them, after telling a Policeman Dog I abollt the Hob Oat. and the had crca lore was arrested. And the sunflower seed cake was just scrumptious! So If the button hook doesn't lake the cork out of the Perfume bottle and let all ihe nice ; smell run away, I II tell you next about I Uncle Wlgglly and ihe red brush |