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Show I) BEDTIME STORIES j By HOWARD R. GARIS I UNCLE WIGGLLY FIXES 0HAI1I I opyright. 1922 by BfCClure Ncwspa- I paper Syndicate I ."Don't sit down there! Poii't do it' nod Nurse Jane, as Uncle Wiggjlly K came In the hollow- Btump bungalow I one day and started to sit down in a I kitchen chair- I Why shouldn't I sit down there'-" B asked the bunny uncio turning around I 80 quickly to see what the matter was I i hat he nearly lost the twinkle oif the I nd of his pink nose. "la there any? I thing fn that chair on which I might I mi. Nurse Jane? Is tlure a cake, ,r u I -J" i ' . or even a baby pu I "No, nothing like that," answered I tut muskrat lady housekeeper. I Then why did you shout at me not I to sit in it?' Uncle ViggII wanted j to know. II ' Because it's a broken chair," Nurse W Jane answered. "Mrs. TwlStytalt, the I jdg lady, was over here a little while J ago, and she sat in the chair une of j 'ho chair legs broke, and only thai she 1 heard it cracking, and Jumped up in I i me, Mrs rwlstytall would have hau t W ' bad fail " S ' Hum! Like IIunipty-Dumpty, I .sup-I .sup-I ""'N' ' aaid i n. ;. Wiggily "Bui Mill Mi-ll Twlstytail If. big; not to say fat! She 1 v. ould break almost any clinr. I think V if I sat down easy like V "Don't you dare try it!" warned I Nurse Jane, as Uncle Wiggily made I mother )nove as though to sit down I m the broken chair. "One of tho legs I 1 m that chair Is cracked, I tell you, I and though it looks all right it will not hold even you,' "Yes. it is broken," said Uncle Wlg-glly. Wlg-glly. as he turned the chair upside down and looked at it. "And I am lad of it." Ld "Glad? Why?" asked his house- Keeper I I'm go ng 1.. put i i 'hat chair, Nurse Jane, and it will be I as good as everl" . "Nonsense"' cried the muskrat ladv. "In tho first place, you have no new legs for chairs. And. If you did have remember how you put up the sllmpsy abelf. that broke the moment the Bob '.at jumped on it." "I remember that very well." said the bunny. "But putting a new leg in a chair is not so hard as making a kitchen shelf. Besides, it's a good thing the sllmpsy shelf broke, for it seared away the bad Bob Cat I shall fix this chair. Nurse Jane. Say no more. If you please." Miss Pussy Wuisy knew there was no further use talking, so she folded up her whiskers and went about her Lm H!SKir n- nollow stump bungalow N He I n. ! S ggily abou, - King a the broken chair 1 "A piece OCohe of my old red. white I , ""J striped b trber pole rheuma- I tism crutches will make a good leg J n Place of the broken one." said the I A nnny- ,"V" ',w 1 P,ece ofr one of my .a old crutches. g end Of the fcruteh down small enough so it would fit i the h. . . he bottom of the chiir the hole where he had pulled out the broken leg. "Now that chair looks as good as new.'- said Uncle Wiggily. when he had put in the piece of rheumatism .'crutch "Oh, .lanle!" he called to his muskrat lady, "come and see how 1 fixed the chair ou said I couldn't mend!" "Well, it looks all right," Nurse Jane said as she walked around tho mended chair. The point is will It hold you?" "You mean Will it hold you." said I'nclo Wiggily. I fixed it for you. iNur.se Jane Sit down und try It." I "I'd rather you'd try it first," said I the muskrat lad . bashful like. "You are heavier than I If it holds you, and the new leg doesn't break. I'll sit ! In the chair." "Pooh! I'm not afraid!" boasted the bunny. He was just going to sit down when there was a noise out in the ball, and a growling voice cried. "Remain standing, if pu please'. I can nibble your ears better that way! Keep standing" And in walked tho I bad Bushy Bear. "Oh." cried Uncle Wiggily "Oh. dear!" sighed Nurse Jane-"Don't Jane-"Don't be frelghtened." growled the Bear, who had come out of his den (this being C'andleman Day) to seo If his shadow showed. If it did he would go back and stay six weeks, for he felt that spring would be this long coming But. of course, that's only a notion "Don't be frelghtened." said the Bear. "A llttlp ear nibbling isn't going to hurt! Heigh-ho I think 1 can nibble better sitting down." ho said. And down he sat In the chair 'Uncle Wiggily fixed. I "Crash!" went the new rheumatism ; crutch Jet,-. "Haug."' down bunke d the chair- Bear and all. on I he floor "Wow"' howled the bad qhap. "What is this- a trap! No you don't! You don't get me In a trap'" and up he Jumped, from among the broken pieces of the chair, and out of the bungalow-he bungalow-he ran as fast as ho could go, nibbling no ears at all "I didn't think you could fix a j chair'" said Nurse Jane, sniffing sar- tactic like. "Well. I fixed the Bear, anyway." ! laughed the bunny, "so it's just "as well 111 buy yon a new chair." And he did. I And if the cuke of soap doesn't try lo hide under the wash rag when the i bath tub gives a party for the towel i rack, I'll tell you next about Uncle I Wiggily mending a pipe. oo |