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Show 1 BEDTIME STORIES By HOWARD R. GARIS UNCLE WH.t ll AM) THE PONOGRAPH 3 Copyright. 1922. D McClure New spa-paper spa-paper Syndicate "Well, you need not be lonesome today to-day or call me on tho telephone." said Nurse Jun.j to Uncle Wiggiiy one I morning. as the muskrat lady put on her bonnet, ready to leave the hollow -!HUi builgllloW . "Why not7 Aro you going out agin" " rojfl needn't have asked that, for I Bee ou are going," remarked the bun-nj bun-nj gentleman, as he noticed the musk- hb . juov a niuivvj. dui wnai maaes BBB you think I will not be lonesome, and BBfl where are you goliiK "' BB "To answer your first Question," (joke. Miss Fuzzy WuaSy, ' you will not E u lonesome becaus-.e I have bought jou some new phonograph records. Kgd Vou can play them when I am gon-. for your second que--lion. I am I going down to the flvo and ten-cent store." Wlia't for?" Uncle Wlggilv asked ' To get a now gold diihpan. The j silver one I got last week has a hole iu. I think gold will wear better thai Bilver, so I'm going to get a gold dlsh-HKB dlsh-HKB pan set with diamonds." j "Better get two, while you are at ! I It," adviiied Uncle Wigsily. "Here Lb nine cente more. Get two gold dish-HP dish-HP pans." ' Well, don't forget to play the Phonograph when I'm gone," said Xurse Jane, as she hopped down the Steps after thanking the bunny gentleman gentle-man for the nitje cents. "Try Usomc of tho new records." "X will," promised Mr. Lonsears and he did But plajlng the phonograph by yourself gets tiresome after a bit. at least 1'nelc Wlg-flly found It so. ruid hi thought he would go out and see if )) could find an adventure. Mut ju6t aa It had happened the dav before, when he fooled the Wolf with the telephone or. rather Nurse Jam did Just what happened then happened hap-pened now then? were no adventure, to be found. " I gues it's loo cold for adventures to be out!" laughed the bunny rubbit as he thrust his paws li.t0 bis warn fur overeo-.it and turned around I'll go back to rny bungalow ami play the phonograph once ' more. There are some new records I didn't try" Undo Wigglly warmed himself at the eheeifnt fire In his bungalow, and then, when his paws were unstlffeped, he wound up tho phonograph and pul on a jolly little dance tune "Ah, that's fine" laughed the bunny ai he began to skip around tin- roon doing the one stop and part of the waltz "1 wonder what the next record will be?" Just then the bunny heard a no.se tn the hail and without turning around he called: "Come and have a dance Nurse Jane'" "Huh' I'm not Nurse .lane," growle) a savage voice, and the.,. ,,,,,( the Fuzzy Pox. "Oh! Oh', dear!" sighed Uncle Wig-.ci!y Wig-.ci!y "What are you here for?" Vour ears! To nibble your ears!" barked the saucy Fox "But to Whom were you talkliiK as l came In before you called me Nurse Jane.?" "I was talking to myself," answered I'nr!,; Wiggiiy. Xonsense! As If I'd believe that!" snickered the ?uzxy Pox. "Somebody was here playing music for you to dance and you were talking to whoever who-ever it was. Tell me for I am so hungry hun-gry I want extra ears to nibble this morning. Who Ls here?" "Truly I was talking to myself, said the bunny. "As for the music, it came from there," and he pointed to the phonograph, which he had shut off as soon as he heard the noise in n if nan. I "Pooh' As If I'd believe that!" sneered the 1'ox. "Why that's only 0 box! A box can't play music!" i "Here. I'll show you what that box can do," exclaimed Uncle Wigglly. thinking perhaps soft gentlo music would make the Fox more kind. And, not knowing what he was doing, the bunny put on one of the new records Xur.se Jane had bought a record he ! had not yet played. There was a pcritchie-scratchle sound, a whirring of the motor as the phonograph started and then, all ut once, from the phonograph box came a loud voice sayings "I am a Pirate bold. I am! 1 sail the raging sea' I'm not afraid of man or maid But they're ull afraid of mc! Oh ho! Yo ho! o For shiver my timbers, I live on hot cinders! I'll toss vou to Flinders! Yo ho! Yo ho!" "Oh ine! h my!" howled the Fox. "There's a pirate In that box' I knew vou "ouldn't be talking to yourself , You hav e ;, pirate in that box and I'm 'afraid of pirates! Oh, I'm goinc" and away ran the Fox. "Ha! Hu!" laughed Uncle Wiggiiy. Ins ho tool; off tho Pirate Song record 'and put on another dance tune. "Th'-! "Th'-! phonograph voice fooled the Fox, as the telephone voice fooled the Wolf! Ha! Ha!" Then the bunny played some Jolly tunes, and if the rod mittens don't catch cold when they hug the snow' man and tickle him in the ribs, I'll tell J ou next about Uncle Wigglly and Bah) Tabby. |