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Show I BEDTIME STORIES 1 By HOWARD R. GARIS II N( LE U GGIL1 'S N I AS 1 1 I Copyright. 1922 by AleClure .Newspaper .Newspa-per Syndicate. When Nurse Jane came back to the hollow stump bungalow one day, haying hay-ing been down to the five and six-cent store to get a man to come up and wash the face of the clock, the mush ut lady housekeeper saw 1'ncle V ig-! glly verj earnestly gazing into a look-! :ng Class. y 'Are you trying to he like Alice :n Wonderland. :i r i k through the ooking glass?" asked Nurse Jane, "or Is your pink nose trying to twinkle) i.ipside down?" "Ha, Ha'" laughed the bu,in uncle. "Neither one, Nurse Ja.e Of course, I know Alice in Wonderland for I have had some adventures with her but l am not trying now, to see If she Is on' he other side of the looking glass fori I know she isn't " 'Is it about your pink no.-c, then"' , ; iked Miss Kuzzy Wu.zy. "No. it's about my hat." L nele Wildly Wil-dly said. And then Nurse Jane noticed ihat he was wearing his tall silk hat m the bungalow something he hardly I ver did, for, of course, it Is botte' B 1 manner not to wear a nat in the house l , 'What's the matter with your hat? Ll asked Nurse Jane Ms "It is worn out my hatla and T; BP need a now one " sa,id the" bunny gen- r " tleman. This old one doesn I lool well on me and so I was Just walling until you came In to go down to the nineteen and twenty cent store to buy I myself a new one," "Well, when you buy your new hat," said Nurse Jane, "please bring home I our old one" "What for' " Uncle Wiggily asked. You don t want to wear It. do you?" "Mercy no!' laughed Miss Fussy Wuzzy, "hut 1 want to use it as u pot 1 put some 'liit in ;t ai.d start o tew tomato plants u will soon be spring at least I hope so and if I start Borne tomato plants in the house, In " your old silk hat, when I set thm out LJ after warm weather comes, we'll havr I tomatoes so much sooner.'' 1 k "I don't BuppsgVe," said I nele Wlg- I igily, slowly "that there is any way of 1 planting old silk hats and making my. I ones grow in their places?" I "I'm afraid not'" laughed the musk- iat lady "Well, Wiggy. hop along I I mu yourself a ned hat and bring bacl; the old one." I So I'ncle Wiggily did I his. not tal:- I ing as long to muy hlrnrelf a new tall; , . I silk hat as one might imagine. UncloJ I Wiggily was not too proud and fussy. I I "As for your old hat," said the heavier heav-ier g'-ntleinan who wailed on L'nclol Wiggily, I may as well throw that', away, and he was going to do to. ".o, indeed." cried I'ncle Wiggily. 'Nurse Jame wants my old hat to start! some spring tomato plants in- 111 1 Carry it home under my paw " And It was when Uncle Wlggll was going home wearing his new hat and Hiving his old one, that he had an! exciting adventure. All of a Budden. as tho bunny wasj hopping giadsojncly. past a hollow log. there was a snnri an. a g. u 1 and out pounced the bad old Bob Cat. "Oh, ho'" howled the bad chap when he saw L nele "W lgjrily. "You can't fool me this lime making me think 1 you are a charcoal man. You have no Mack on your face from the Inside of a chimney, but yon have something black on your head " "That's my new Bilk hat " explained Uncle Wiggily. And I hope you will I not bother me. for I want to show. Nurse Jane how I look in Please let I me pass!" "No f shall not" hnwtnil ihr. Tr.v. I Cat. Just because you arc proud and: stylish with a new hat doesn't mean that I am not going to nibble jour eara for I am"' Then L'ucle Wiggily had an idea, Maybe, ' he thought to himself, "if I could get the Bob Cat to feeling a bit proud, so he would wear a tall hat,: he'd grow so fond of looking at him-' self i:, the glass that he wouldn't' bother me. I'll ir It. "Oh, .Mr Hob Cat." cried Vnep. Wlggiiv ' I have an extra tall silk hat here Wouldn't 1 you like to try it on?" Now the Bob Cat was Very proud and he had never. In all his life, owned a tall silk hat. So he .said 'I believe I would like to wear one But after I have it on I II nibble vour' ears Just the same!" "Maybe so maybe not" thought the bunny He took his old hat from the1 pnpor and suddenly lammed the hard stiff hot down over the Bob Cat's1 eyes, ears and nose. "Oh, wow! What are vou doing"" ho.wled he Bob t'at. for he could not breathe with the hard black hat Jammed Jam-med down oer his face. "I'm m.-.king you stylish:" laughed Ln5'?, WIUy. And then, before the ' Bob Cat could claw off tho hat. L'ncle WUTgliy hopped safely awav ami home Of course Nurse Jane had to use .,ome- . "'n e se to start her tomato plants n but that was better than having the I bunny s ears nibbled. I think, don I you? Anyhow, if the molasses doesn't I try to stick the eye or Iho needle on . the face of the clock tn watch tho hnnus go around. I'll tell vou nextj about Lnclc Wiggily and the bark house. |