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Show BEDTIME STORIES By HOWARD R. GARIS I VCIE WU.f.lLY VXD THE SOP! i .M Once upon atfinie when Tncle Wig-: glly was .Hitting in his hollow stump bungalow ll alone for Nurse Juno had! gone out, thero came a knock on tlie i front door. Can that be Nurse Jano back so early " thought the bunny gentleman,' as he arose from his easy chair. "A hardly think so. A"nd I had belter take! a look through cho side window before! 1 . pen the door, as It may be that bad! Bob ( 'at coming to nibble nvy earn be-canse be-canse 1 tooled him at the snow house; the other day." Uncle Wiggily looked through the' side window out on tho porch and hU heart stopped beating fa:., when he saw j Toodle Fla Tail, one of the beaver boys, just about to knock again. "Come in, Toodle' Come in!" called Uncle Wiggily, opening the door. "I'm glad you aren't the bad Hob Cat ' "I'm glad, too," laughed tho beaver, flapping his broad, flat tail against the side of .he stoop to knock off the 8in. 1 "Is Nurse Jane home, Uncle Wiggily!" I "Why. no, my mu6krat lady housekeeper house-keeper Isn't in," said Uncle Wiggily. j "Did you want her for anything special, Toodle?" "Well, Just to make some candy " answered an-swered the beaver boy. ' "Candy!" laughed Uncle Wfgglh "Ah. yes, I remember, you always did have a sweet tooth, Toodle my boy. But why did you come to have Nurse Jano mako candy? Can't your mother make it for you ." "No. sho is too busy" the beaver boy answered "Besides, Nurso Jane promised prom-ised that if I'd come over some day this weok she would make mo. some candy. I want to take home a little to my brother Noodle, also." "That'.s v.-ry kind of you," said Undo Wiggily. "I'm sure Noodle will like the candy. But Nurse Jane isn't home she, has gone down t.. the six and seven cent store to buy a new piano. How would ii do if 1 made some candy for you?" "Can you?" asked Toodle. "Well, I can try." spoke Uncle Wiggily. Wig-gily. "There's nothing 'like trying, whether It's making candy or saying your lessons In school i'or.io on down to Iho kitchen. Toodle and we'll try oui paws at making some candy. It needs to be sweot I know that much." Uncle. Wiggily took some sugar, molasses and honey, and putting r.hctn In a pan he boiled them on the stove. Soon a most lovely odor filled the kitchen of the hollow stump bungalow "it smells Just like candy!" cried Toodle, clapping his paws "Ob. 1 guess It will bc candy all riRht." Uncle Wiggily said, as he poured the sweet, hc' stuff out in a buttered pan, as the beaver boy said his mother did when she made candy. "It looks awful sticky," Toodle re-, marked as he saw how hard it wa( for the bunny gentlemen to scrape the. candy out of the pun with a spoon. That's because it's warm yet," Uncle Wiggily explained. "We'll set tho; : candy out on the steps In the snow to cool and when it is cool it will be-, hard and not sticky." The pan of candy was set out to cool,' but Toodle was so anxious to caste it, I that he kept opening the door every' ': other minute, and reaching out to see if the candy has begun to harden. ; "It's stocky yet, Uncle Wiggily," said' i the beaver boy, after several trials. "Maybe J.'s going to be soft candy I instead of hard candy Eh. what?" "Maybe." suid the bunny. "Well, soft; candy is as good as hard. I guess. I'll ! bring it in and we'll seye about it." I Surely enough the candy was ver I soft. and. oh. so sticky! It stuck to the , paws of Uncle Wiggily and Toodle when they touched tt and as for chew-' chew-' Ing It why fat stock their -teeth to-i to-i gether like glue' I guess 1 didn't boil the candy long enough, or else I boiled it loo long, ' .said Uncle Wiggily. I "Never mind!'' luughed Toodle. "It s' ' good and sweet if it is sticky. I can suck on it if I can't chew it!" i Toodle wus Just putting another blob of the sofr., sticky candy in his mouth,1 when through the open door In! bounced the Fuzzy Fox. "What ks good and sweet ."'' howled' the Fox. "Ha' I know; you don't neea to tell me! Uncle Wiggily's ears are good and sweet!" "And so Is this candy Uncle Wiggily just made!" quick said 'foodie, holding hold-ing a plate full of It out toward the l'o "Try some sofc candy, Mr Fo.v, before you nibble any ears'" All right I will!" howled the Fox. "I'll eat a lot of this sweet candv ;mik then I'll nibble Undo Wiggily." The bad chap stuffed a big blob of candy into his mouth. He shut his teeth : down on It hard and then oh, then. Weill that Fox Jumped up in ..he air. ' and ho tried to howl, but he couldn't, I because his Jaws were" hold tightly I shut by the sticky candy he had bitten Ion. The Fox took his paws, and tried I to pry open his mouth so he could bite j Toodle or he bunny, but he couldn't. The soft candy held his mouth tightly I closed "Come on. Uncle Wiggily. Take the ! broomstick to him and drive him out!" 'called Toodle. So the Fuzzy Fox, who couldn't blto, was driven from the bungalow, his jaws glued shut with soft candy. Uncle V, jgily and Toudlej knew enough not l" l':e on the sticky stuff. They let it melt in their mouths, and, really, exr opt for being sticky the candy was very Kood. So things might have been much worse, you see and if the slice of cake doesn't try to hide rn Che bread pud-; ding when the lc cream wants to play; tag. I'M tell you next about Uncle WJg-: gily and tle hard candy. 00 Asia has a population of S3O.0OG.00O |