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Show BEDTIME STORIES BY HOWARD R. GARIS UNCLE WIGGILY M THE NOl IKTI K Copyright, 1920, bj MoClure Newspaper News-paper Sjndhiue (By HOWARD R, GARIS.) Once upon a time, as Uncle W'lg-glly W'lg-glly was hopping through the woods, thinking iperhnps he might have a funny adventure, he heard the noise of Borne one crying. "Boo boo! Hoo boo! Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Oh. dear!" cried the voice. Well' Weill" exclaimed the bunny gentleman "If ever I hoard the sound of trouble this Is It! Unloi3, maybe." ho went on In a whisper, "that Is the Plpsi.sew.ih, or Hkeezlcks. trlng to fool me. 1 hud butter be cureful and look " So tho bunny rabbit gentleman pei "'ed around the corner of the mulberry mul-berry hush, and there, sitting on the soft end of a moss-covered stump he saw Jillle Longtall. the little inou.sle girl And J 11 11c was Tying tours out of her eyes, and they were running down the front of her dross, and the tip of her tali would have been mi wet except that sho tied It out of the way in a double bow knot, Jllllo did "Why. Jillle Longtall! My dear little mou6io girl' What is the matter asked L ncle Wlggily, coming out from In under tho sasstafras tree, which had oranges growing on the grape vino part. "Oh, I am In 6uch sadness!" sobbed Jillle. ' Truly it does eem so," agreed Uncle Wigglly. "But what is the trouble? trou-ble? Sometimes, w hen you tell what s the mutter, it doesn't seem half so bad What la ll Jillle n.y dear little inouHle girl?" ami Uncle Wlggily wiped awaj -tome ol her l ary on hl- oat-tall "Oh, I want a squlrtcr to siulrt water," sobbed J il He "M brother Jol-lle Jol-lle ha6 one, and so have Johnnie and Blille Bushtall. the squirrels, but my mother said she thought I v U too little Hut. Oh, dear! I do so want a squlrter awful much Boo boo!" and Jllllr cried backward and forward at the same time What's a squlrtcr?" asked Uncle Wigglly. "It's a water pistol," said Jillle. "It has a sort of rubber ball and a hollow tube and you put the end of the squlrter squlrt-er down in a puddle of water and It Mucks up some Inside the rubber bull Then you squeeze the ball and the erat r squirts out, and It's lota of fun, and I wanter soulrtor terrible bad!" Hum, Yes! You do seem to like water unite B lot!'" said the bunny in a funny voice. "You like water so much Jiiiio. that you are even squirting some out of your eyes." "Oh that a tears, that I'm crying," said the little mousle girl, half laughing. laugh-ing. "Weill dry your tears," went on tho bunny "There Is no need of you crying cry-ing anv more.' "Oh, are you going to the nine and eleven cent store and get mo a squirt- she loosened the double bow knot In er?" asked Jllllo in a happy voice And her tall, for she felt so happy sho didn't believe she'd cry any more "I'll see what I can do," promised Uncle Wigglly, "I think perhaps I can find a squlrtep for you right hero." "Water pistols don't grow In the woods." said Jillle. "No, but things from which to make 'hem muy be found." spoke the bunny uncle "In the flr6t place We want something like a hollow bail, to hold the water. Well, puff balls grow in the woods. I'll find one." So L'ncio Wigcily looked around until un-til he found .1 Idg round hollow puff ball. But when he squeezed It In the puff ball did not spring out again, as rubber balls do. ' I se() what It wants," spoke Uncle Wigglly. "It Isn't elastic enough. I'll wrap a loaf from a rubber plant around It, and pasto It on with gum from a pine tree. Then the puff ball Will be like a rubber ball." So Uncle Wigglly pasted a leaf from the ruliti" r plant growing In the woods around the puff ball and then It could bo pressed in, and would spring out again as nicely as you please. "But It Isn't quite a squlrter yet." Bald Jillle. "No, It needs a long, hollow tube or stem. In " agreed Undo Wigglly. He took a piece of hollow dandelion stem and fastened It In the rubber leaf covered bull In which he had made 11 hofe with a sharp stick. "There's your squlrter. Jillle." said the bunny, '( 'Ii, Joj '" laughed the little mousio girl And when she dropped the dandelion dande-lion stem In a puddle of water and squeezed the ball, the water was sucked up And when Jillle squeezed the ball out squirted the water. And, all of a sudden, along came hopping the had old Basoopa! ' 1 want souse! I want Uncle Wlg-giiy's Wlg-giiy's House'" howled the Basoopa, ' Trv- a little Water In your eye!" squeaked Jillle, and with her squlrter that the bunny had made she doused tho bad Basoopa with mud pud.ll water .mi the bad chap 1 ried ' Woueh! wow'" and ran away without getting any of the rabbit gentloman's souse at all Bo It's a good thing Jllllo had her squlrter. And If the cake of soap doesn't try to hide (n tho bath tub, when the wash rag wants to tickle It with the tooth hrush, 1 11 tell you next about Uncle Wigglly and Flip Flop. |