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Show BEDTIME STORIES I By HOWARD R. GARIS I- U2TGLE WIGGILY WD THF BA1 Copyright, 1921. by MrClure Newspaper News-paper syndicate. "Come on. L'ncle Wlggily! Come on!" cried some Jolly voices outside tho bunny gentleman's hollow stump .bungalow one wintry morning, whe.i 'the snowflakcs wore softly falling. if Come on where?' asked Mr Long- f.ir. looking From he ndow, and seolng Jackie and l'eetle Bow Wow, tho two puppy dog boys. "Oh, come on coasting!" barked Jackie "We've found the very finest hill In all the world for sliding down," went on Teetle. 'It's nifty, If you know what that means." WS J "Yes, I know what that means," I laughed tin- rabbit gentleman Bui I i in afraid I can't K" with you," B 9 he looked sadly at the sleds whl, h II tho puppy dog boys had brought with mil "Wh ennt yon come?" asked zb Peetle, throwing :i bn i snowball at Hp his brol hi r. v V i : i t us.- i .i.i going to take some s "nrrot turnovers to Grandpa Goosey Gander." answered Dnclc Wlggily. "Grandpa Goosey Is 111, and Nurse Jane has madu him some turnovers, I have them paelied In a basket ready to carry over." t "Well, you can come f'r a little I T coapt on our sleds," said Peetle. "The slippery slide hill Is on your way to, Urandpu Goosey's." Oh, is U? I didn't know that." said L'ncle Wigglly. ' Then I'll come. Bui don't make too much noise, or laugh tOO much!" he told the doggie I boys, for they were barking Joyfully as the bunny came out w ith a covered cov-ered basket "There's no need of letting let-ting Nurse Jane know I m going constlng she would only think me silly," explained Mr. Longears. All right we'll be quiet"' said Tnrkle and Peotle. So with Uncle Wigglly they went softly through tne snow away from the hollow stump bungalow, the doggies pulling their sleds, and the rabbit gentleman carrying car-rying the basket of carrot turnovers for Grandpa Goosey. "Here s the nifty slide! ' barked T.irKle, as they stopped on top of a hill that led down to a brook, which was now frozen over. h, this Is an otier slide'" exclaimed ex-claimed l'ncle Wigglly "You should see this In summers'" "What's an oltr elide?" asked Jackie. It a a steep, slippery pla for otters which are animals like minks woasels or ferrets: except that they Mo a great deal of their time !n water." explained T'ncle Wlggily "Otters "Ot-ters are very fond of climbing out on a steep bank, making the dirt ello-pery ello-pery with their wet bodies, and tho:i Cney slide down kerplunk into tin-strnr- But. of course, they don't slide In winter." "No. we coast then,' barked Jackie. "Come on now. Uncle Wigglly. Ride' down the otter slide on m sled! "And on mine. too!" offered Peetle. 'I can't ride on both sleds at once!" laughed the bunny gentleman, "but I'll take turns" This he did setting the basket of turnovers down on a stump at the top of the ott?r slide hill. l'ncle Wlggily had some Jolly good fun coasting with tho doggie boys, hut ot last the bunny remembered that he must not forget Grandpa Goosey. So having taken one lust c si, and then another for good measure, l'ncle Wlggily started off over the snow-covered fields for th-.-home of the gander gentleman Uncle Wlggil had not gone verv far from the otter slide before, all of a sudden, nut from the bushe., rushed rush-ed the Bad Bear. "Wutf! Yuff!" growled th- Bear. "Now for some ears to nibble'" and he ran straight at l'ncle Wlggily. "Nibble my ears! Not If I can get nwa from you! ' cried the bunn.. and. turning quiokly, he ran back over the snow toward the otter slide hill. "If only Jackie and Peetle a,"e there maybe they can bark at and bite the Bad Bear and stop him frpm nibbling by eara'" thought Uncle WlgglK Paster and faster he ran, until he reached the otter slide. Jackie and Peetle had gone home, taking their sleds with them, but the steep, slippery slip-pery otter slide, coxeied with snow und ice, was still there "Now for a trick on this Bad Bear!" whispered the bunny to himself him-self He ran to the edge of the slide, as though he might he going to leap down. Then (Jncle Wlggilv suddwnlv tumed to one side and hid behind a bush Ah ha' Now I have you'" growled growl-ed the Bear. He, too. ran to tho eiJn,. of the slide, but ho was going so fust, and he was BO big and heavy that he couldn't stop. Down tho otter ot-ter slide he (Ha, nrvl when be reached reach-ed the bottom he broke through the Ice into tho water and was so cold and wet and shivery when he got out that he didn't want to chase even has stubby tall. "Ha: Ha" laughed Uncle Wlggily safe at the top of the slide. "That'i the time I fooled you, Bad Bear! Then the bunny hopped to Grandpa Goosej's with the turnovers and they made the old gander gentleman feel much better. So if the cat's tall doesn't tickle tho gold fish and make It splash water on tho hands of the clock. I'll tell you next about L nclo Wlggily i and the good bear |