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Show HI BEDTIME STORIES By HOWARD R. GARIS 14 DNCLE WIGGILYS LOST GLOVE "Why don't you wear your now, fur-lined fur-lined Christmas gloves?" asked Nurse Jane of Uncle WW lgglly one morning as the bunny gentleman was leaving the hollow stump bungalow to go look for an adventure, as he nearly always1 did. "That's so I haven't worn my new gloves since you so kindly asked Santa Claus to bring them to me, 'spuke Mr. gsLongeara, "I will put them on, as It ""' Is rather cold today." Nurse Jane handed him his new j gloves, w hich had been kept in the ! front hall table drawer, and drawing ' them on his paws, Uncle W lgglly started off over the fields and through the w oods. He was fooling rather Jolly, for his rheumatism didn't hurt h(m. and his pink nose was twinkling just right, sc HS the only thing that troubled the bunny 555 fL was i tat he didn't seem to bo having SB W &n adventure H m But, all at once, as he was looking ?Sr1 f under a big stone thinking an aden- Sjl ture might be hiding there, all of a y sudden, out from beneath the stono sprang an old, old, Fox. r Wuff-" howled the Kox. almost In Uncle Wiggily s face. Tho bunny leaped back and ran toward his hollow stump bungalow us fast as ho could go never once looking back over his shoulder. When he reached his own front steps ho turned to see how close .-rj the Fox was. but, lo and behold- the If V Fox wasn't there at all! 1 'Ho! Ho" laughed Uncle wiggily, "i r guess he was such an old old, old, Kox L that he couldn't chase a lively rabbit like meV R' - And Hint k ' v. hat 1 appened Trie A Bk -f Fox was too old to run. pk ? "Ton are very lucky." said Nurse BT Jane, when Lnrle Wiggily came pant- M ing Into the bungalow 'Oh, but B Wiggily 1' cried the muskrat lady. WfLf "Tou have lost one of your new PHk gloves'" ptJ 'So I have' " sadly answered tho PMH rabbit gentleman, as he looked at his pHpi paws, "I must have dropped one of PPJ my new gloves when I was running ptPJ away from tho Fox." PH Then go right back over the way i PH you came and look for the lost glove 1 BPJ before some one picks It up," said I PJPJ Nurse Jane. "If the Fox wo so old PjM he dldn t chase you. he won't come B9jH after you now. Go back and look for ! pjpB our new Cbrlatmaa glove, wiggy. One PJ glove la of no use." CM "That's right" 'said the bunny. "I d TJ look funny wearing only one glove I I ( hope I find the lost one." Wm Hopping back over the way he had I CM run to get nway from Ihe Fox. which . ETi hadn't chaaed him at all, Uncle ii;- gily looked on both sides and ulao the' .4 middle of th path for his lost glove. It seemed be no place In sight, though, and the bunny ivas thinking '( going to the store and trying to buy a glove to match the one he had. w hen all at onco, ho heard a little voice saying. "Oh, how nice and warm it is In here: Wasn't it lucky Molhor that you found this nice, warm placo for us to stay T" Uncle Wiggily stopped hopping and came to a stop Ho was close beeldo a big slump, with a hole dug out near lt In tho earth at one side. In this hole wajj a family of poor little field mice They had no other place to I stay for tho winter but. this hole under I a stump, and tho hulo was lined with dried leaves. i ut as Lnclo wiggily looked he saw i his lost glove, and peeping out from I each of the fur-llnod fingers, and the fur-lined thumb, was a cuto little I mouse boy or girl. And curlod up on the outside palm of tho glove, were the mother and father niT-o. shlvorlng In the cold. "Doar inel" said Undo Wiggily to the parent mice. "Why don't you got Inside my warm glovo with your chil-j chil-j dren ?" ' Thro Isn t room, " sadly sai l tho I mother moUM, shivering. "1 found this glove .. ,t mi (li.- j,atli .i while ago. und It makes a lovely warm nest for I my little ones. Hut there Is no room i for me!" I "Maybe not In THAT glove, but Ithero is In 'IHIS:" cried Uncle Wiggily, Wig-gily, and. taking off his other glovo. he tossed It Into the mouse hob- under the stump. "Crawl In that and bo warm!" he told the fatner and to .th. r mice, and thoy did. ihon 1 nets Wiggily Wig-gily hopped home. Did you find your glove"' asked Nurse Jane "No, and I must have lost the other oth-er one'" sutd Undo Wiggily, trjlng hard not to laugh. "And I'm Just as glad, ror one glove Is of no use I'll buy another pair " and ho did. It was a long time bofore tho inuskrat lady found out what tho bunny had done, but sho eaid It was alt right. And tho poor mice kept warm nil winter In tho glovoa. . So. if tho looking glass doesn't start ! making faces at Itself in the dark, to came the bath tub to laugh. I'll tell you nert about Undo Wiggily and I Sammle's drum. 00 |