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Show BEDTIME STORIES BY HOWARD R. GAR1S l t LK w IGG1IA M THE POl !f-1 !f-1 IV i m HOW WD H Kls i Copyright, 1S2. by McCliire Newspaper Newspa-per Syndicat. t'nele Wlggill end Nuts.- Jan wero jutting on the stoop of th hollow stump bungalow one hot evening nftr the Fourth Ol Jul I neb- YViggily wai tanning htSDSSif vvltb bis tall silk hat and Nurse June hud a pieplant leaf which Is us good a fan as one could wish. All of a sudden. Uncle W igglly arose from the s:oop wln-re ln bud been suiting su-iting and started around toward the j bnek Of the house I What are you going to do?" asked i Nunc Jane. I nm going to mak a fountain." answered the bunn) rabbit gentleman, gluger-cako lik". "A fountain!" exclaimed Nurse Jane. ; "Why are you going to do th.it and how can you make a fountain"1" ' I am going to make one because it I is mucn cooler to listen to the splash-ling splash-ling of wuler," answered Uncle Wig-glly Wig-glly As for how. If you watch von (Will see I will BCrW 'be hose on the kttehen faucet, ir;m th rubber pipe lout here In the yard, fasten It straight lip In the alt on a slick driven into the giound, you Will turn on the water. ' md we'll have a cool, splashing fountain." foun-tain." 1 That sounds lovely." said Nursa iJ.in- I omy hope our hose fountain Will work." "Oh. It will work all right," declared I n le WickUv as he twlnklud bis pink nose very slowly, for If he twinkled it too fast on a hm evening i' might gel ill red lik a pink pin cushion. So whll Nurse P ;i n - tanned hi-rself with a pieplant leaf Uncle wiggiij be- gan io make the fountain. He fastened the hose on the kitchen sink faucet and then drugged I It boae around to j the yard near the porrh. on Which he i:md Nurse .Jam- hd been sitting; Mexl the bunny gentleman drove the I bantlle of a broken roquet mallet Into i the giound and tied the nozzle of the ho;e to this stick. ! "This makes the hose stand up In the air like a regular fountain," said I the bunn;.' "Now. Nurse Jane, If you'll kindly go In the kitchen and turn on the water we'll see how our fountain I works." So while the bunny remained near l the hose that stood upright on the i stick- the muskrat lad) went into the I kitchen. She turned the faucet. ' Does the water squirt out''" she called to Uncle Wiggilv. "No. not yet." answered Mr. Long-ears Long-ears looking carefully ut the hose noz- Itle i guess you haven't turned the faucet all the way on; have you"" "Oh yes I have." said Nurse Jane Hm Btaybs sornethina Is ituck Inside, the hone." "Perbapa there if.'" 1'ik1 WiRatiy ;tKrvf(. I'll look dOWQ l nod se If ran dlSOOVer whut n You kv-p on; lorninir tbo f.iucfi .arid ioun tb- w;.(--i will Spurt owl. our fountain will lay and w- shall be most tuni and lovel) " So Uncle v ivririiv looked down thf , nozzle of the Imur, and Nurse Jane, in the kitchen, turned the faucet on as hard hh aba ould. All of a sudden along caass the bad old 1'I'1IscwhIi IIh s.n I tU ilS WltTSU) standing b, ti- hoSS fountain and at' ones lushed up to the bunny. "Here' Whni are you looking at?" t:.ii:lKd the Pip awav down deep tn his t hi oat, rnont InopolltSly. ' What are you looking at ' Siar8 thtough a telescope'.' tele-scope'.' If you ar, you're looking th wrong way " "No, I'm not trying to se star.-. " said I nv lr Wlgglli. "I'm looking to i Bee what makes niy ho?e fountain i stopped up." Xonsense:" howleil the PipaUfOWSh f.fn more Impolitely. "'You are trying to fool me' Iet me take S look, and then, after I SOS all there Is to be seen. I'll grab your souse ami run. KerCi let me havo a look." Rudely he pushed Uncle nn iggiiy to' one side. "Yon had belter be careful," aald the bunny gentleman. "If you don't, all nt n Htiddeu " "Nonsense' Don't lalk to me!" snapped ih Pip He put his eye close to the end of the nozzl if tnK host Which was lo in i h fountain And w hen the Pip mtss looking down Nurse .lane suddenly sudden-ly cried: "Ohj I'm lo Iggllv ' 1 was turning th faucet the wrong way all the time' No wo'nder you didn't got any water at the fountain! Now I'll turn iIih fnucet the right way and vou'll SSS vv hat ha ppeus." 'Mien th- muskrat ladv suddenly tinned on the water. It spurted out Of the hoae, which wasn't stopped up .it all, and the water with all Its mlghl snulrtSd right In the face of the Pfp and all over In in What do you think, of that? ' h. wow' Oh, double wow and! tiolley cars!" yelled the Pip.' "Youl played a trlrk on me!" And the water squirted harder than ever, and made the Pip so wet that he had to run back home lu g' dried out, and he didn't get the bunny's sousv after ;ll Then the fountain played some more,! and cooled off Nurse Jane and the1 rabbit gentleman And If the hoptoad doesn't .lump over the baseball when! It's trying to climb up and see Ifl there's sny green cheese In the moon, , I'll tell von .about I nolo Vipil- andi the humming bird |