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Show I I BEDTIME STORIES K BY HOWARD R. GARIS ' UNCLE WIOGILY AND THE CHRIST-MAS CHRIST-MAS CAKE. Copyright, 195SO. i Met lure Newspaper - "Well, now (bat we have (be i hrl.it- 0 niaa tree in our hollow stump bungalow. iSH so thnt I can begin trimming it. I ni- MB pose 1 must begin thinking about the MH t'hristmas cake, aald Nunc Jane Fuzzy SffS( Wuszy one morning I'ncle WiggllS jtjtcO i-amc down to Urea K fast The nloe old RH gentleman bunny akipneu from step to HajH step, instead of sliding down the ban- H Ister of his hollow stump bungalow as JSH ) 1 - sometime did. For Nurse Jane 1 1 didn't exactly llki mat. HH "Christmas cake.'" cried Uncll Wlg- SiflB gily. his Pink hujc twinkling twice as fast iBV because It was so near Christmas. "I'll H u,, nciit 'iii and buj the besl on- in IQB. "oh, Wlggy' As if 1 would HbflB Christmas cake!" ex lalmed the muskrat jH ladv housekeeper "1 always make one. even though It docs lake a lot of lime." BBB "May 1 not have tbj pleasure of beip- HQfl Ing you"'.' asked 1 ncle Wlgglly There Hfl are so many things that go Into a Christ - '. iia - I ma; ha e .1 in - u tie part in maklnc oni "Ves, you may." said Nurse Jane. "I II A . lugar and pltM and lota of thing! HH nice, and. If you want to br .1 r.al help bop to the store and get IPn things I m (k-llghtad that :c nould i Nvrx Jan.-a fu.or. t'ncle Wicrll hell his paw 01 pink nose to top li I nkl . 1 while he ate breakfast, and then, putting on in. 1 tall, silk bat nd taking liiti fed. H white and blue striped rhpumntlam SH 'Tutch out of his clothes bftslAI iht bi.:i- H9 my gentb-mnn started from his hollow RH stump bungalow Bji4B "For lb- Christmas enke I shall need BtH -igar. raisins, i.mdled itr-'O ..H.-oanu B 1 hocolate anil pineapple Miuce.' called irsi Fane after tin bunn . BB "Yea, l know It Is all written down. SIB and Uncle Wlgglly twisted, his eyes side- j 9H ways to look at the link of his whit-! SBm ollar where Nurse Jane had written a: sEjl list of cverythllng he was to bring from 9H thn store. I, Foi 1 to le W lti,i'.' imc ' mi, ' KflH great habit of forgetting what .In- re-j nlfM merabered. So Nurse Jaue had said bSB "I'll write the list itown on the back '1 1 1 of your isblte .ollar It will Iir.l show I , : , .. 1 hop along and all ou 1 : 1 1 "SM t do will be to stand with your back '-'laJW to the Monkey Poodle gentleman In too I fiHn store, lit' will read ih things I ant, , 1 ind pul them up foi yi PV 60 the bunny gentleman, not having onsl anything to worry about except his rheu- I inaturQ, hopped siong over the fields and' MBW through the woodl And he did not wo.. smSi ry niuch about bis rheumatism for he ! ?:tK was thinking so much about the coming I kSMl of Christmas. . . .1 "Arid what a lovely cake Nurse Jane tfflBI w ill bake!" thought the hunn . "it RH makes me hungry to think of It. . (inH I'ncle Wlgglly hopped Into the grocery '"HitV store kept by the Jlonkey Uoodle gentle- I'qjfH man and said: U9H "Nurse Jane. If you please, wishes a ' H number of things to make a Christmas; SH cake." jlE "Vrrv well, till me what ihey are. and I jsLM I'll wrap them up for you." chattered j HqHj the Monkey loodle. irtJB They 're written down on tlie ha' , ': ' ,,f ,ny ct1'ar." spoke L'ncle Wlgglly. so 1 I won't forget Then turning around I l-H Hi I n b.o-k m II. e Monkey . hap LTnCtS i j W lgglly let him rend what the muskrat Mr; J liad iittei, nn the white collar I rj with :i fire-blackened stick for a pen-Hssl pen-Hssl atUM "llumV mumbled ihe Monkey Poodle , ".Sugar and spice, and other nice things. 1 raising and lolly pops while the cow I singT." I "Does It saj Ibat on my ollar " ' asked I I'ncle Wig-'ll. "'I mean about the row I singing'.' Cows don't sing." "I know they don't, 'ordinarily ." agreed ' the Monkey P.,d)r gentleman. "Bui everything ev-erything 1- different around I'nrlstmad I Would you mind .sitting down in front Of I me, outside the counter with your back toward me." begged Ihe Monkey "Tnen I run read off the list of what Nurse 1 Jane wants." I "Not at all"' spoke the bunny gentleman gentle-man politely. SO down he sat and the; j Monkey Poodle began wrapping up bags 1 1 of sugar, slices of candied cocoanpt and 1 itton .-. 11 (I e eryi htlng that goes Into a rake. ! "Thre you are. IJnce Wlgglly!" said the Monkey in his most Jolly oice as he filled a basket "Take these to Nurse J?.n". in.l l wish ou and her a most merr hrlsl ' I "Thank you " spoke the bunny. Off he I hopped, over lb. fields and through the Woods with b basket of good tiling", lie was thinking how nlee Christmas wast and he was hoping (here would be enough! Christmas cake so he could give all the 1 animal girls and boys, a slice, when, all' of a sudden, out from behind the iassa- I frac bush, hopped the Fuzxy Fox 1 "Stop! Hold on' You've gone far' ' enough" ' barked the Fox. holding up his paw like a policeman stopping an auto- I 1 mobile procession so you .an oroes the 1 street. "What hae you In that bas- ! kel?" "Sugar and spice, for our Christmas' cake. Vou may look, you may smell, but not one must roil take.'' ald Uncle Wlgglly. . "Stuff and nonsense"' harked lh h'ox.l "I'll lake whut ever 1 please, and then ; I'll nibble you!" With that the bad Fussy Fx reached hla paw In the basket and picked out a big of .. no thing. "Oh. ho vice golden yellow corn mealV srled the Fox. "J love that!" So lie lilted what was In the bag" down hlc- red throat and then, all of a sudden, sud-den, the fox howled: "Oh woushl Oh, ow' Oh, my throat Is on fire! I must run and get. drink and away bo ran. not hurling I'ncle WiggDy at all. "Pear me" said the bunny, as he hopped hop-ped safely on to his hollow stump bun-galow bun-galow with the rest of the things In his basket. "Oh. 1 say. Nurse Jan. . ' called Uncls Wiggiiy, as he reached home. ' I hope you aren't going to put any hoi things In the Christmas ake! What was it the Fox ate that butne.1 his throa' so much"" "'Oh. he must have swallowed the bag of mustard that I told the Monkey Poodle to give vou for my plcklssl" said Nurse Jane "That's the only thlni: n.ls'-Ing n.ls'-Ing from tho basket. The I- ox look that." "Mustard, cb '.' No wonder he howled! laughed the bunny Then he helped Nurse Jane make the lirislmas cake And if the shoe lace doesn t tie Itself In a hard knot, so that goldfish can't make a cat's cradle of 11. Ill toil you next 1 I'ncle Wlgglly's Christmas storking |