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Show ! BEDTIME STORIES BY HOWARD R. GAR IS UNCLE WK.t.ILY AND LITTIJE HOPP1 Coprlght, i!o b) McClurc Newspaper Newspa-per Syndicate. (By Howard R. Carls) Ohceupoh a time when L'ncle Wig-gily Wig-gily was on his way ihrougn tnc woods, looking for an adventure, and at the same time going to the five and .seven cent store to get a paper of hat pins for Nurse Jane fc ussy Wuzzy, the tabbit gentleman heard some voices talking behind a Jollypop bush, you know, is the bush off which the candy men get sticks on which jthey fasten ice eram cones. I "Hum! I wonder who is talking there?" said Unci: Wlggily. I had best take a look, for It may be 6ome bad friends of mine who would nibble my souse." So the bunny rabbit gentleman listened again and he heard one voice say. " h. but mother' I'm afraid'" Afraid of what ' silly chap." went on tho second voice. L'on't you see me do it easily- Why won t you try "' 'That doesn't sound very dangerous," danger-ous," thought Nncle Wlggily. "I'll take a look." So he looked and he saw a mother hqptoad and her llitle boy on a sandy place under the lullypop bush. The mother toad was Juniph.g mound but the little boj toad was sQuatting In a neap atld keeping very still. 'Good morning, Mrs Hopper Toad ", said l'ncle Wlggily. "What seems lo be! the trouble this morning.'" "Oh. 1 can t get little Hoppi to hop." I said Mrs. Toad. "This in his first hop-, ping lesson, but he's afraid even to tako a tin., jump, though he sees me lake big one. without getting hurt." "What s the matter, lloppi . .ink I l'ncle W lggily. Why don't ;ou hop a your mother does ? "Oh, "cause -I'm afraid if 1 do I'll come down so hrd" on the solid J ground that I'll break mv -kin. or bend; my toenails or something like thai'" grunted little Hoppl "Why dont you get him a sofa , cushion to land on for the first few hops?" asked the bunny uncle. I have." said Mrs. Toad. ' I've tried everything, I've made him a cushion out of some of Jiminle Wlbblcwohbie's (duck feathers. I've even bought him a I football, blown up with soft air, to Imd on. Liui still he is afraid to take his first Jjop. He Just crawls along and I goodness knows a hoptoad boy will never amount to anything in thls , world unless he learns to jump " "That Is very true," said l'ncle Wig- glly; Suppose you leaVe Hoppl lo me, I I Mrs Toad. I'll take htm Off in thej woods. 1 don't mind If he walks slow -1 ly for 1 am In no hurry And perhaps I can teach him lo hop " ii, i wish you would"' croaked! Mrs. Toad. And Hoppi. being very fond Ol I in le Wlggily WH8 glad to slay with the rabbit gentleman. "Nuiv, Hoppl." said Uncle Wiggily when the mother toad had gone, "let me see if you can't be a brave boy and do a little jumping, See here. Is a son bed of green moss, as fluffy as a kitten's kit-ten's back. PirBt, I'll Jump on it, to show that it Is very easy, and then 1 want you to give a good hop." l'ncle Wlggily gave one of his best jumps and landed on the soft bed of green moss under a tree "Now, Hoppi!" called the bunnv gentleman. It s your turn'" "Oh, I'm afraid!" grunted the little hoptoad boy. "I'm afraid I'll come 1 down so hard i n break all the but-1 tons on my shoes!" 'Nonsense!" laughed l ncic Wlggily, "Weil I'll look for a softer place for you " The bunny f'ind a place where there was some mots tnat was even greener and th eker ao flufiv as a poodle dog's back but still Hoppi was afraid to take ever one jump to land on that. "Well, I'll see If I can find something some-thing else!" patiently tald the bunny gentleitian. ' For you must learn to Jump. Hoppi. my boy: ' So L'ncle Wlggily looked around in the woods for something very soft and mushy, that H jppi might land on it and not jiggle ary buttons off hi-shoes hi-shoes ' Ha! I see some soft loadstools.' said l'ncle Wlggily They'll be Just the proper things for Hoppl to jump on. Thev'ro soft as molasses'" L'ncle Wlggily had, for a time, left the little hoptoad bov squatted by the second bed of soft moss. Now the bunny was Just gobg to go back and call Hoppl to com and try his first lump on the toadstools when, all of a sudden Hop! pave a loud cry and came leaping through th woods as fast as even h'.s mother could have wished. f Why Hoppi! You are jumping!" ex- claimed the bunny gentleman ' How did you do It?" "Don't stop to ask questions, if you. please, I ! Wlggily!" croaked Hoppi f j "but you had better jump too! The Pipslsewah a coming' Come on. Hop! I Hop! Hop!" And Uncle Wlggily and the toad boy , hopped so fast that they got away from the Pip, who was after the rab- t - bit's souse Hoppi had seen the Pip- slsewah coming, and the little toad boy ? wanted to get away so much that he hopped before he knew it. And af-ter af-ter that he had no trouble for he found I that he w as specially made for Jump- in and 11 didn't hurt him at all. And I If the apple doesn't fall off that peach H and bump the ice water pitcher on the end of us nose, I'll tell you next about Uncle Wiggily and the dishes |