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Show BEDTIME STORIES Si BY HOWARD R. GARIS UNCLE WIGGIL) S SPOOL GIN. . .-'i-j :j5 (Copyright, 1920, by McClure News- K&fat lp paper Syndicate.) 'itjj ne tla' when Lncle Wigglly was hopping through the woods, looking to see if any adventures were growing 'i'!'": on lollypop buahc, ho happened to A hear some one call, -j' JLi Walt a minute, L'mle Wigglly: I j Wait for me.'' YVP Thc bun,1i' Iar,ult twinkled his pink $fk hH cars and was looking for a place to c M BBja hide his long nose, when he happen- ed to think like tins. -1&flflBl "Now that can't be the Plpslsewah '"ffijffj or the Skcezlcks, or they would havt jflwl said, right on tnat they were coming 5am for souse. This must be a friend ti lJjHl mine." Srifr So 'ncle Wigglly looked through Bk tn trce3 and mere he saw Baoy Bunty, the little- rabbit girl who had m'vaT once lived in a hollow stump. BJ "Walt foi mc, Uncle Wigglly! I -iHkBc want you to chase me and tag me". ' :;7J8oS 011 hayen't been very lively 01 late, ij&Hg and 1 in afraid your rheumatism Is :SSBv worse again:" salu Uaby Bunty, sklp- ' pint' up 'if'S I 't ll, my rheumatism lsn t er ''SLi well," the bunny said. "But as for ""SkS being lively, ou should have seen ikB9 me yesterday climb a tree to cut a branch off tor Nurse Jan. . I i heard about that und aUo how lL lne Skee cut the brancn off the wrong i fjBll Vft- Ic" dwn ker-bunko!" laugh - 'rf od Baby Bunty. But now. come on, gxffi chawi me, L'ncle Wigglly! Tag!! You re jPasBBl It: and she lapped the bunny, and then ran away, and she was to 2Bb ly lhat l-nclc' Wigglly hopped after BBv h iring might stub her paw BVT But Baby Bunty didn't fall, onl BBV her hat kept coming off more than BBB onco as Lncle Wigglly chased her; I and, as he had to stop to pick it Zm up, he couldn't tag the little bunny BBB BBK "What makes your hat come off so Wj much. Baby Bunty"" asked the rab- (ZK '1 gentleman, uhen. all tired out, he Ml nHcl l stP lor a rest, M "Oh, thei e isn': anj rubbei . last le . JO?: to nold it on my head," she answer- PBK ed. 1 wish 1 had a rubber sewed on m;, h a BBH "Come right along to my bunga- BBJB low." melted Inel. :ggili tVurse JKlUi Jane will sew an clastic rubber on BElKj your hat in no time. '1 hen it won't BggfrM iullo,w vli 80 ea8ll - antl make me chase j "All rlghtle! ' laughed the little rab-1 ' ,,u S'rl- s "he flopped along with Uncle Wigglly. But when they reach-1 ed the hollow stump bungalow- Xurse jitjjf Jane had gone out to the moving pictures, and the bunny gentleman "A 11 sew that elastic on for vou mv-' self. Baby Bunt " JiR l!ut wht'r wSl yu get a piece ofi mB elastic.'" inquired the little rabbit I I t: j Off ih" rubber plant.' was the-' BJBa qjlck answer of Mr. Longcars. KtiB - Soon L'ncle Wigglly had cuf a nice! wlrlp of hat el.ista off the rubber B plant, and with a needle and thread 3 BJ he began to sew It on Baby Bunty's r"H Bf hflt so it wouldn't blow off when V ehe ran, or played tag If "There, I have Just thread enough,' f??jH said L'ncle Wigglly, as he took the last piece off the spool. 'Your hat I- ' ' Will soon be ready, Baby Bunty." The little rabbit girl was quite glad for she wanted to go out and play around, when, all of a sudden, there-came there-came a knock on the door and a voice j cried. , t me in' Bet me In " j Who are you and what do you wanl " oski d Uncle Wigglly, whila Baby Bunty crept close to him. I "I at" the Pipslsewah and I want gha souse." was the answer. '.'Open the ftgi door and let mo in!" aEf (li. no!" answered the bunny. "Then I'll stay here Until ou come ragi out. and I'll get your souse then' howled the bad chap. "Oh, s'pose he docs'" whispered jr2 1 Baby Bunty. Tan't there anv way of driving him off. L'ncle Wlggilv? if Jm. you had a popgun you could shoot a . ' ork at him!" W "Ha: 1 have something better than BB I that." said the bunny gentleman. " ' What?" asked Babi Bunty ' "-I'l' make a spool gun,'" answered I the rabbit uncle. "Then I'll shoot th I Pip with a match." Uncle Wigglly i, look the empty spool, and over the I I hol in one end he put a piece of the , elastic lie had cut from the rubber , plant. Let me In: Give me some souse?' howled the Pip ' Walt a minute!" said L'ncle Wigglly. Wig-glly. He went on making the spool gun. Thc bunny tied thc ends of the elastic around one end of the spool with some bits of thread. Then he got a long hatpin of Nurse Jane's, with B knob on one end, and he put this knob and pin down through thc- hole In the spool gun. Taking hold of the-glass the-glass knob on the hatpin. L'ncle Wigglly Wig-glly pulled it back with thc elastic Then he aimed the spool gun through an upstairs window at the Pip on the ; steps below ! ' Look out!" cried the bunnv He let go of the elastic which snapped back and shot the hatpin, sharp end first, right at the Pip. The pin I Muek him on the nose' "Oh. wow"' howled the Pip. "Do : you call this souse'.' I don't: Won ' ! Wouchl" and away he ran. driven off DJ the bunny s hatpin spool gun. Then Mi Longeara finished sewing the rub- ber on Baby Bunty's hat. and he let her shoot small, blunt sticks from th ) ; spool gun, and she didn't chase him any more that da. And If the tin j roof doesn't Jump down off the op of the houae to eee the door mat tlokla I the front porch. 1 11 tell vou next 1 about L'ncle Wlggll and the soup. |
