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Show BEDTIME STORIES H BY HOWARD R. GARIS H UNCLE WIGGILV'S HOT DAY. "Dear me. Pnrle Wlsglly." said Nurse Jsne Funy Wuzty the mtisrs' l.idy housekeeper, one morning. "I want you to go to the store for me. but It Is such a dreadfully hot day 1 don't like to ask you " What Is It you want'" asked the bunnv r?.bbit gentleman, as he twinkled twin-kled his pink rose, and put a cabbage leaf in the top of his tall silk hat. for cabbage leaves are good to keep the sun from making your head sizzle. 'I want a jprinkllng can so I can w ater the garden In the cool of the een!nc." answered the tmiskrat ladv housekeeper Our old sprinkling can has a hole in the bottom, and isn't J w orth fixing." I "All right. I'll got you a new one," I rromised Uncle Wlgfil i "But. if you find the day is too hot, don't go come ,,n back " bocq. ri Mis Fuzzy Wuzzy as Mr. Longears started off. tWlngtaf h'B rod. White nnd blue striped barber pole rheum ism rnitch; like B polio man's club. For the hotter 'he day the bettor tho b'inn;.'? rheu malum felt. I'll take care,' promised Uncle Wig gilv. i So, keeping as much as possible en the shady side of tho path. Undo u c glly started for the store where tho old gentleman hand organ grinder nionkev sold sprinkling ennp. The bunnv bough! a big one, that would hold lots ol water. "You could take a regular shower bath under that If some one would hold i up over vou and pour out th? water,' said the monkey gentleman IS 1 e . , I'ncle Wlggily the ran. "Indeed 1 could'' agreed the bunny, Nnd it is Just hot enough for a show 'or bath toduv " Then he rtarled back, f'irnir,;: over 'the cabbage leaf in his ta.ll. silk hat, 'and soon the rabbit uncle wai on hi Way back to his hollow stump bunga low. But he went by a different, and more bad path this time, and, when he vraa alnioft home, Uncle Wlggtlj hc?rl a sad voice saying: i "1 am sorry, my children, but I hi 0 no money to take you to the seashore tin- year 1 wish I could, as I know you feel the heat of this day dread fully. But sit down In the shade, think : of ice cold cheese nies. and trv to he happy " "Oh., but mother," said another pad voice, "we wanl to go In bathing, and i have the waier splash on'us the raj Jollie and Jillie Lonctall went to the seashore once, with I'ncle Wlggily' J "Alas, my children that cannot be," spoke the first sad voice "I wondei if these are any friends of mine,' thought Uncle Wigglly 1 It cer (ainly doesn't sound like the Pip or Bkeo, I'm glad to say." So he looked over the top of some H lollypop corn bushes, nnd there th-- H bunnv saw a poor mouse lady and her I seven little boy and girl children. The;, had on very ragged clothes, an J looked very poor and unhappy Ha' What seems to be tbe trou-bio"'' trou-bio"'' asked Uncle Wlggily, In bin mnM kind and Jolly voice. ")h. Mr Longears'" exclaimed ths H mouse lady , "how you surprised me! Well, the truth of tho matter Is that H the children want to go to the ses- H ' shore, but 1 have no money to send them. I am a church mouse, you I "What difference does that make?" H asked Uncle Wlggily, twinkling his H W hv goodness me! Didn't you ever I hear it said: 'As poor as a church H mouse?' asked the long-tailed lady H "Well, they re alwav. poor, church mice are! So my children cannot go H to the seashore to cool off." J "And we want to go so much!" cried H the povon little girl and boy mice. "How would It do if I brought th seashore here?" asked I'ncle Wlggily. H "Pooh! You can't," said the oldest mouse girl. "Have you any salt?" asked the bunny bun-ny of the mouse lady. "Yes, 1 am not so poor but what I J have that," he answered. H "Then please get mo a big box that J will hold water, and some salt." spoke, H the bunny And. when this was brought, he filled the box with water. J put some salt in and stirred it up. and then he heaped sand around the box. J "There, now. -mi mice children can J j put on your bathing suite; and Jump in .the big box of salt water," ?ald I'ncle I Wlggily. "Swim around, and it will be like a little ocean In you. And then comt oul ihd ' .'i the sand." "OH, whal t R, ' cried lbs mieo chii- j drcn and In they splashed. They ! didn't have to put on bathing suits. j They Just wore their regular ragged 'clothes. The salt water got In their mouths and noses Just as It does nt ithe seashore. And while they wero ! splashing. Uncle Wlggily hung tho sprinkling can up on a branch in a 'tree, after he had filled the can with ' water. He also tied a long string to it. "What's that for?" asked Mrs. church Mouse. I "That's the shower bath." laughed the bunny And. when the mouse chll-drcn chll-drcn stood under the tree, the rabbit pulled the siring, tilted the' sprinkler j up nnd down showered the water So I the had fresh and salt water baths, j and U wps n most lovely time for a And, if tbe elephant doesn't step on the rubber ball and make it squeak I like a mouse, of which ho is very much afraid 1 ll tell you next about Uncle , Wigglly and the red flower. |