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Show I BEDTIME STORIES" BY HOWARD R. GARIS j - i 1 UNCLE WICCILY '-MO iHC CHRIST- hL mas tp.ec. am - 1 1 111 Kfla lllll one l.l'.i ru:ifc; in m 1-iiDgalow. "I suppose yon 'otsht .... ei IH" J noa jm.i ; , j i HH Leaf Newapapci' lie waa tding lo i syhsi sort if a present be du-itt u ull HH Banta Clam lo bring hla musnr-ii liouse1 eeper. Then the buririj rciii Icnan Rij nskixl: aaWS "Old you tell me to - ro ii a atone, Ekj Miss Kuzzy Wuxzy; and did I foncci It?" Hl "iii. no.'" she answered, amlllnv s" that her whiskers trept nroiioil anil tic-l:led tic-l:led the la'k of her necx ' What I I M mei ouj , H time to go and get the i irei . j iVe always l hungalow', you remember, even if e aren't young uny longer." ""h. we aren't so very old: ' laughed QH Tncle Wbiglly. "Wo can have a Christ- mas tree for Qr little annual hoy and M girl friends, if m( f.r ourselvey. I'll g' get one, Nurse .lane." BB So the bunny ger.tleni:n ral 1 If siart- Hl e, off for the wcods with an ax- to r"r Hl down a ni" ovfrgrcin 'irll:ri t: And. as it happened, he had some bread and cake crumbs in his tail silk ha.. Just Ii an ho had when lie met the Flicker bird -.-! lvi li.'m tlie BH "I might meet aome other hungrv l 1 Win i . ding i I flp 'n.ad from side to side so the bread and ' llfii''- ko crumba in hla hat sort of tleicie.i r X I i" bald spin tiBj 'n and on through foe- wood:: th' WM buna'y went, and Boon he cane to a little grove of CbrlFtmas tree.s. The rahMt WM L-entletnan picked nut on.- of Just H'C MH richt size, and as In v as chopping it WM down so' he could drag I! lo bis 111 i slump bungalow. Uncle WigRii thought he saw something ! I ; - k nattering nmld the green branches. a Bui w I en .. t. iked again mini lila glasses off on a white lit of anow, ihe buuny sho-vk hla head "I guess, after all. I didn't see any-thing," any-thing," be said. Then he fintsr.e.l eitt-ing eitt-ing down the tree, and, hoisting thel I a thick er.d up -m his shoulder, lie atarted ' 1 '.'lasclntr It along thi anow -co 1 raBfl ground toward hla hollow stump home kB "And then .i.i -. Jane mil I will hiy 9B a lot of fun. trlmmihg it and getting Ii IjHH ready to light for Cnrlstmaa morning, tsjH when Santa fia-is pays a visit to all tlx- Kgl animal girls and boys t rll aa to all VH the real boys and girr." thought the B bunny gcntleninn. t. nele Wis 'I Ml tree along, and he was Just wishing n hfltj uiighi meet Jackie ana Peetle Bon wow, HUM the pupple do(S. WIJO would help him Wm v nil the toad, wnen, a) of n. sudden a HBar VOlOe heMnd Mm said i.l BH "My poodncss rui' sakes alle: eje- 1 laimed ill. l.ongears. ami be gSA'e aucn a jump that he almost dropped th" rlstnian tree "Who's there'.'" jMfl urnl ii. .. , . i . . LJI "I gne.-s I must he ylartlng my rhrlPV- g mas dreams ft Mt earl- ' ' laughed tne wHm i iinny. Once moye i started off, dratr jHlB "Oh, how cold and nuugry I am!" Tlie HJ Voloe, i-ime from me tree I n. VVIggiiy, jM was dragging. Put when he laid It down "jflS on the unow and rooked carefully anions 1 tin- branchci tie could see no inc JSM Then, all at once, oat from behind a i stump came the Wooale oif "Was that you saying how 1 nnd ' BB hungry you were" asked I n !- VVlggllj Bfl "I can give you seine cake and bread crural 'jSM for the birds, Mr woosie Wolf." "I don't want your 1-re'ad crum! -:" , JjHJ grumbled ihe Wolf tiir.-t unkindly and iBB impolitely "A;id 1 1 j tne nrat thhel HasTI I have Said Ouytltlng; ttiough I am hun- ' ' Bl 4SJSW "Were you not speaking from ! iih.d ,' , 1 my laik In the Cbristrnus ttec'."' relccd i n bunny. "Xo!" growled the Wolf. "I aa not. i Hut 1 am speaking fiow. nd 1 think' I'll nibble vut tor CbvtstmMsr' "Tlmt woujd be a f-n - r sort of Christmas m-isaem .... . . liki i the bunny "Lh.t i suppose i imuol p.-ji I myself Still, piea.te no m :.o,.r." I "What is I'V grumbh-d i,.,; . W i. If. "Dcrore you nibble nu . raid th,- bun- jr. "iHeoae drag this Olir! itwas in bom.- to -Vin . Jane. She will be o ii.--appolnted !f it doesn't gt thov i "Well. Til (Irani if." ?..' i Ma Woif. . put you'll have- to !ri; me. v-.u must walk ukn;;side of me. so I'll kn iw nu ' aren t running awav. j;:h :ifn-i n,.. t'rte I is at yoiar bhnga'ov i 11 nlu'de v.u j 1 bat's fi at I willir" I "There Is no help for it. I i .-ns. . , -ighed the bunny. T must make up my mind to le nibbled." "h n p. md the Wolf picked up th fro i 'i-ar it I . aioiii;. but, all "f a sudden, iht mm voice L'ncle Wieglly had lizard before! cried out- ; "Run! Run! Here come the floffrt! Run! and, Pave yourselves: T!i,.. ',"i , , Whew! and then came seme muil, shrill I wlitlr-s from s m-w hriv tl.ii Si-.-niHil , la be among the hranrhes of tho C',rst. njas tree. N'o I didn't d it"' said Che bujny : "Though I hear.l the vol- e h -.. " Then nga!u came the rail ami whls-: whls-: ties: "Bow! Wfow! The dog.s' The hunter lilies whew! Whew!" "Yhta Is no plm-e for mo:" i-rled the , W t 1 "Ha! Does and lumters, too l suppose. ' , wHli guns: growled th Wolf. "That I wasn't you calling. I n-h- Wigpi!-.. l know." Then, dropulng Ids c-nil of the Thrlst-inoa Thrlst-inoa trei?, away ran the had Wouzle hap But Uncle Wigglly was :.-, sur-prised sur-prised ; hup aong. Ami when thol Wolf was f.Ti-. far Sway, thre waa a' fluttermrr in the free, and Out COnM a black .row bird. The tree was o thlcK it hud hid the crov- from Bight. "Itd vou citll and whistle and s' nr.' i the wolf:" aeki d i nele vigc-l! y. joyous-Pke. joyous-Pke. "1 did!" creaked the crow. ' f hid in 'i i tree to keep warm and to get o rde a ii droned It along and iC-neu I ana the viv If I lh ought I'd sare hbn " "And you did." said the hmiT.y "Thank you Ami here are some cfrumbs for you. I and Mr Longears took them oui if his hat. Then the Crow' ato as many cakeM and bread CTtlmba as he wanted a:id flew away, and tl b bunny took home m-' i "hrlsiMi 's lr e. So If the wax doll doesn't try to walk I i With the candy ran", and I reak it ..if i down : 'TaH, in i.e boardwalk; I n i i I 1 you next at- ui Uncle Wlggl!) ano lib i :hrjbacnias nke. i i |