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Show BEDTIME STORIES I BY HOWARD R. GARIS t'KCLE W1GGILY AND JlMMlF.s i I'ADDLFS Copyright, tDUU, b) .Met lure- -News-Puper Syndicate. (Bj HOWARD R, ,IUs, Once upon a time, as Uncle WlgRllv wee hopping along by the duck pond ocean, Wondering what sort ,,f :m adventure ad-venture he might have that day, ho heard a quacking sound and then a voice said "Oh, ho! I wouldn't have such feet as you have, not for an thing' Why they aren't feet at nil: They are Just like boat paddiee! Paddli feet! ftndj die feet Jimmle ihe duck has paddlej feet!" i Thai s wh.it (Jncle wiggiiy heard aa he stood in the shade of a mulberry I lollypop I'ush beside the duck pond ocean ".M? ' Some one must tie making tM of someone else." thought the hunny rabbit gentleman. "I wonder who It ia?" o he peeked around the corner of the apple dumpling lice, and thcr on the bank of the pond he saw Jlm-mlc Jlm-mlc Wibblewobble, the boy duck, And standing near Jimmle was a funny. aaUC little chap all covered with fuzz, and h'- had a very long bill like a tool hplck Paddle feet: Pddl feet! Jimmle the thick has paddle feet'' cried this c,iieer. eaucj llitle chap again "Well, suppose he has Ills fi ,; were made for htm and It Isn't nice of vou to poke fun at him," said Uncle Wiggiiy Wig-giiy coming out from behind the sjfra flowera, and fautilnc himsel, with lils pink twinkling nos excuse me, I mean his tall silk hat. I'm get-ling get-ling as excited as Uncle W Igglly was e. he making a lot of fun of my feet. ' uarlcd Jimmle the duck bov Paddle feet! Paddle feet!" . rled the saucy little chap -.ince more, but he ran away, dlvlni; in among the weeds when he saw t'ncle VVIggily. 'Who was he?" asked the hunny, rabbit gentleman, as he sat down be-atdt be-atdt Jimmle. Ob he's one of the children of the Snippy Snappy," answered Jimmle "He Just came to live around here and I wish he'd move away, He's all the 'time making fun of my feet, and I -! lu'a and Alice's too." "Hum! The Snippy Snappy!" spoke Uncle Igglly Is he nnj relation to j tho Pipstsewah or the Bkeesicke, 1 wonder .' I haven't seen the Snippy Snappy himself " said Jimmle, but I wouldn't I b a bit surprised If he wa - aa had as I both of thos chups rolled together?" "Well never mind," said the bunny rabbit uncle "We won't pay any at-t at-t ntion to him." 'All the same, though." quacked' j Jimmle the duck, as he sat near the edge of the mud puddle ocean and splashed his legs In the water. "1 have puddle feet, haven't I, t'ncle Wiggiiy?" Well. es. Jimmle. but It Is very, I good for you that you have." said the rabbit gentlcmanj "You being a duck H would look very queer If you had paw... It like mine, which ure of no use in the t Bui fours are more stylish," said Jimmle and Uncle Wiggiiy could se I Hi it ihe .lin k hoy was feeling badly f because "i ihe tun the snippy Snappy I had made "f the paddle feet. I Nonsense'."' laughed Uncle Wiggiiy LWlnkllhg hta red, white nad blue I striped rheumatism crutch. "Each of us has the feet best suited to him." 1 "Maybe if I had paws like Tommle j K it I'd look better ' went on Jimmle H "Stuffed pickles!'' cried the hunny :olng to he silly, as Samtnl and Blllic were about their pawa and think you are very quoer " H But mj feet are so broad and flat f and ugl aald Jimmle "I never thought of It. before, until that Snippy Snappy boy called me paddle feet." H Uncle VVIggily took off his tall silk H ami his rh'-umatlsm nose with hlfl left hind H "Suppose you come and take a walk H with mo," said the bunnv J And maybe I'll find some better t feet " quacked Jimmle. I Uncle V iggll) said nothlnsr but h blinked his eyes and hopped off H 'through the woods, followed by Jim-mle Jim-mle the duck. They had not gone vry far before, all of a sudden there J Iwaa a crackUna. in the bushes behind r them, and a voice cried. H "There be lc' Vnw I'll fot enm1 Oh A thi. Is i he I for me " Quick! Here comes the Pip or Bkee after my House!" cried Uncle Wlggtly. No. the Pip or Skee!" H quacked Jimmle It's the bad Snippy Snappy hlmaelfP' And through Hie T woods came rushing a fuzzy animal, t with a long bill like a pair of tailor" .1 IK laaora. The Snippy Snappy kept i iashlng his long sharp bill. I ivan fur! I want some soft fur off Fncle Wlggllv to line my overcoat H with!" cried -the Snippy Snappy. "I vlon't want souse' I want fur!" H He ran after t'ncle Wiggiiy and F Jimmle, but the duck boy and the bunnv came to the duck pond ocean it was a raft of wood "Quick! Get on this raft. Uncle Wig- H glly!" 'juacked Jimmie, "and I'll pad-.Ih pad-.Ih you out In the middle. Then th H Snippy Mnappv can't get you." Uncle 1 I Wlggll) got on the raft, and with his H broad, wide feet. Jimmle paddled out H from shore The Snippy Snap waa afraid "f water ani couldn't swim, ao In 'iii Uncle Wig- H Kil's fm Soon the Snippy SnapP) went away. " sdd the bunny. "I H for one. am xl.id you have paddle H I guess I am too!" quacked Jimmle H he iteered the raft back to shore H And if the egg beater doesn't tickle H the umbrella In the ribs and make It H Jump up the chimney to see where the j I sparks go sailing to I'll tell you next about t'ncle Wiggiiy and Beckje's fur. H |