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Show BEDTIME STORIES I BY HOWARD R. GARIS I XCLF- WIGGlIiY M THi: DISHES iCopyrlght, 1920, b: McClure Newspaper Newspa-per Syndicate i (Bit HOW UtD K. li Mils.) ne evening, after suppei hud been served in the hollow stump bungalow where uncle Wlggily Longears, the bunny rabbit ge.itlcman, lived with his muekrat lady boudekceper. Nurse .lane Fuz::y Wuzzy, LherS came a knock on the door. "Goodness' I wonder who that is?" spoke Miss Fu.zy Wu.vy, as she stop-' pod rattling the supper dishes, which, Bbe Was washing. ' I'll go See," offered Uncle 'WiggUy, hoping It wasn't the Plpslsewah, the Skeezlcks or the Skuddlemagoon. And ilt was not, I'm gtad to say. for It was ..Mrs Wibhlewobble. tnc duck lady I "Oh, Nurse l ine!" quacked Mrs. SVlbbltvvobble, '.'an t you come to the movies with rne this evening They have a most wonderful film about the adventures of the Man in the Moon., i ' ne " I "Oh, I'd love to! ' exclaimed Xnrsr I Jr,ne. "but 1 haven't done the dishes I and " Nonsense! Let the dishet go!" said I'ncie YVlggilv. who tvas listening to ' what Mrs. Wibblewobble was saying I "11 the dishes go'. Why, Wlegie' i How you talk- Let the dishes go to jthe movies'" laughed Nurye Jane. h, no. I didn't mean le: the dishes go to the movies!" laughed the bunny ! gentleman. "1 meant let the dishes go i Without washing and for you to gQ, Nurse .lane, with Mis. AN Ibbl-wo'.jble land not io worry about them. " Not worrying about them will not I wash them," spoke the muskrat lady, in wash them!" offered Uncle Wlggiiy I have nothing special to I do this evening I am going to stay i.i the. bungalow and wait for Grandfather Grand-father Goosey Gander to come over and play Scotch checkers. I'll do the. dishes while I'm waiting." "Oh. how sweet of you' 1 quacked Mrs. Wibblowobble. 'Come along. Nurse Jane, do!" So the muskrat lady put on her n tail ribbon anil she and the duck lady I went to the movies, i nele Wiggilj sal tor a while watching the clouds scud 'across the sky. to help paint a pretty picture, when the sun got ready to go i r, tip, I A nil then the biinnv stretched hi'- e.irs gave his pink nose a twinkle I and said. Now I shall do the dishes'" They were all picked up ready to Wash. The water was piping hot and there was a clean cake of soap all ready to take swim In the dishpan. and play tag with the cups and sauc-j ers "Perhaps I may have an adventure while I am doing the dishes." thought i L'ncle iggily One of the forks I nn get lost away do.vn In the bottom of the pan. and I II hi . to start the sugar spoon out sailing In the gravy-boat gravy-boat to find the missing butter plate." So saying, smiling to himself and thinking what fun it was to wash 'dibhes, pretending that, the plates were ! big battleships and the sauce dishes little tugboats chasing them around jthe lake of water In the pan, I'ncie Iwigglly kept on until he had nearly I I v eryl hlng washed He had put the soap in and out of ! 1 1 1 c water until it was as slippery as ni gi cosed pig. and once or twice he had; nearly dropped it. all of a sudu n. Just as l'ncle Wlggiiy Wlg-giiy washed the last knife and v. as g6tting ready to dry the dishes, the door of the bungalow burst open and I n popped the Bkeeslcks. I have come for my souse!" grunt-' grunt-' ed the Skee. "I didn't know you had left any souse here." said the bunny trying to speak bravely "Well, perhaps it would be more; proper to say I have come for your souse," snickered the Skee, "for I have 1 am going to nibble souse of f youi ears'" j He made a grab for Fncle Wlggiiy, 1 I the Skee did. but the bunny Jumped, back and the Skee knocked dow n on I iw. fl,.i. t-i cllnrif.rv i-ltre of wet BQSp. It slid under the sink 'Oh, excuse me'" said the Skee. who cculd be polite when he wished l didn't mean to do that. Walt until l' pick up the soap and then I'll get j your souse for myself " He reached for the soap, the Skee, did, but just as he got his skinny paws on the soap it took another slide and went under a chair. "O!" cried the Skee; "I'll have you In a minute"' lie made another grab for the slip-per slip-per cake, and this time the soap took i rt of roller sknte under the sink "Come out of there'" gargled the Skee, and he reached under In such a hurry that he bumped his head and1 L'ncle W lggiiy couldn't help laughing, j "Oh. I'll attend to you in a minute'." min-ute'." snarled the angry Skee. Once more he reached for the soap, but as he got his paws on it the soap took -mother slide. This time it skidded over toward the door, which the Skee: had left open. "Hold on there"' cried the had chap and lie made such a hard grab for the' soap that ho fell over and slid right' out of the door nnd down the steps, bumplty bump bump. the Skee did, and th minute he was outside L'ncle Wlggiiy shut the door and locked It I and cried: "Now you enn't get my souse' ' And the Skee couldn't. And h ? didn't get I the soap, either, for it was too dark. Sx the Skee had to go away, not hav-Ing hav-Ing any souse or soap, and l'ncle Wig-gily Wig-gily finished drvlng the dishes nnd everything was all right and Nurse t Jane had a nice time at tho pictures. I" So H the toothpick doesn't tickle the F spool of thread and get it all tangled up with the pin cushion I'll tell you Lbout l'ncle Wlggiiy and the H |