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Show BEDTIME STORIES BY HOWARD R. GARIS l I E W IGG1LY on I Hi. ROOl copyright, l'J, by McOlure News-paper News-paper Syndicate. ( l''. VRD K. Ui i Up the steps of his hollow stump bungalow cam.- Uhple Wlffglly on the hop. He bounced in through .the j screen door so fast that he made j Nune Jano Jump And, as Ihe musk- rat lady housekeeper was, Just then, making a eoeoanut wide cake, she dropped an egg. which cracked undj broke. .My goodness me sakes alive and some peanut lollypops, Wlggy!" cried the muskrat lad What Is the matterj that you're In such a hurry .' is the IrUpalsewab after you, or did the Skee-i licks chase you? ' Neithei one," replied the bunny uncle "Cut It Is going to rain very' hard In a little while. I saw tho storm coming ;uid I hurried hbme to help you K t the windows shut." On, that Is very kind of you," said. Miss FUKy Wuisy. "All tho windows arc open " So she and L'ricle Wigglly closed! them, and only just In time, too, Cor Ii toon begun to rain and, only that the window.-, were down, a lot of water might have sprinkled in tho hollow stump bungalow Uncle Wigglly and Nurse Jane were sitting In tile Ubing room, listening to ihe thunder and tho noise of rain on the root, and they werp looking at the lightning as It flashed, when. all ui a sudden. Nurse Jane gays a Jump I and screamed. What s the matter0" asked the I I bunny rabbit. Did you gel struck I by the lightning?" I i I guesj If 1 had you'd have felt i it, loo. ' answered Nurse Jane. "No.i I I got ad rop of water down the buck ' of my neck. There must bo a leak 'somewhere In the bungalow.'" "Perhaps It's a winuow we forgot to close, suggested Uncle A iggily. It came right Horn ihe middle of' the celling," went on the housekeeper. j "There aio no windows I ihe roof, sol I there must be a leak." I And, surely enough, there was. As1 ! the siorm kept up, moro water came . through the hole In the root, dripping : down Into the living room, until Nurse June had to set a dlshpan In the mid-' dl of the floor to catch tQe rain, drops. "1 II mend the leak In the roof afl- it the storm,'' said Uncle Wigglly. I But It stormed all the rest of the 'day and not until tho next could the I bunny uncle get out the step ludder .'and climb up on the roof to fix the I boh.' where the mine came in Is It much of a leak""' asked Nurse I Jane. "Yes, one of the rhlnglos has fallen' off, leaving quite a hole." answered the bunny. L'nclc W'lKgily got a hammer, some nails and a new piece ef shlnglo to fasten over the hole In the root, and then he began to climb from the step ladder to the sloping part of the roof, which was Just like a sliding down hill, only ihcre was no enow on It now. "Look out! Be careful: Don t fall!"! cried NursM- Jane, as she aw him .slip and catch himself by his paws to tho edge- of the roof. ' It Is rather oiippery," he said. ' Vou should go on the roof In your gare paws or elsa with rubber soled shoes on!" called Grandpa U'haekum, I the old beaver getleman carpenter, as he ;.iw l'nclc Wigglly on the roof. ' Yes. I guess 1 wouldn't slip so lf I had on rubbers. " agreed L'nele Wig-' gily. ' But my old ones are worn out' and 1 have no tlm to get a new palr. 'i ' I'll make you a pair out of leaves from my rubber plant. ai you made a Jumpy springboard for the duck and frog boys." offered Nurse Jane. "The very-thing!" cried TSnc-lc Wig-' glly. So Nurse Jane made him a pair' of overshoe3 out of the broad, thick leaves from the rubber plant. With! these on his fet, Uncle Wigglly did noi slip on the sloping roof that was like a hill. He could walk around .n: It like a telephone man climbing u pole, and soon he had nailed ihe extra ex-tra piece of shingle over the hole in the roof. "Well. I guess I can come down now," thought the buhny, and he was making his way to the Step ladder when ho saw, just climbing up on the roof, the bail Skeezlcks. eh. ho' So that's his game. Is' It?" thought the bunny. "He thinks he t an trap mo here where I can't get down but I'll fool him " Up the ladder leaning against the Bids of he bungalow camo the Skee-zlcks. Skee-zlcks. He had seen Uunele Wigglly, and said to himself, said the Skco. This Is my chance I'll gt his pouse now Ho can't Jump off the roof, and I'll have him!" Up on the roof climbed the bad animal. ani-mal. Then he made a l ujh at Uncle lgglly, crying. "Ah. hu! 1 have you now'" The Skee stuck his claws in the WOOden shingle:, and so he didn't slip. And Uncle Iggily didn't slip because he had duboer plant leaves on his feet. Bui do you s'pose the bunny stayed there waiting tor the Skee to grab him i No, ulr-ee! Uncle Wigglly i an ucro.-s the sleepily Slanting Slant-ing roof, strainght toward the chimney chim-ney In the middle. Right down Into the chimney the bunny crawled, and as it was summer sum-mer and then- was no fire he wasn't luirin ii a bit. Pown the ciiimncy slid Uncle Wiggily. and out Into the living room, and then, just a Utile black, and covered with soot, the bunny ran out and pulled away the ladder. 'Now, let's seo you get down! cried Mr. Hongears to the Skee. And the Skee couldn't, and he had to Jump and he sprained his nose, which jervd him right. So be didn't got the bunny's souse ufler all. and 'be leak In the roof was mended And, If ihe goldfish doesn't chase the pussy cat's tall and got the poll parrot to talking backward, 111 tdll you next about Uncle Wigglly and ihe ants. |