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Uncle Wiggily’s Adventures
Copyright, 19X9, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate Trade-Mark Registered.
NURSE JANE FUZZY WUZZY, THE MUSKRAT LADY, STOOD IN THE.
DOOR OF THE HOLLOW STUMP BUNGALOW. “PLEASE TAKE THESE
EGGS OVER TO MRS. LONGTAIL, THE MOUSE LADY. SHE WANTS TO
BAKE A CAKE,” SPOKE NURSE JANE. UNCLE WIGGILY PUT ON HIS
TALL, SILK HAT, TOOK HIS RHEUMATISM CRUTCH AND STARTED
OUT WITH THE EGGS. "I HOPE I HAVE A NICE ADVENTURE,” SAID
THE BUNNY RABBIT. NOW WATCH AND SEE IF HE DID.
NOW JUST ABOUT THIB TIME THE BAD, OLD PIPSISEWAH, WHO
ALWAYS TRIED TO CATCH UNCLE WIGGILY. STARTED OFF THROUGH
THE WOODS AFTER THE BUNNY RABBIT. “IF I CATCH HIM I’LL BITE
SOUSE OFF HIS EARS!" HOWLED THE PIPSISEWAH, AS HE FOX
TROTTED ALONG. BUT UNCLE WIGGILY HOPPED VERY FAST ON HIS
RED, WHITE AND BLUE STRIPED RHEUMATISM CRUTCH. SOME
THING IS GOINIG TO HAPPEN, I'M SURE.
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THE PISISEWAH, WITH A SLY LOOK ON HIS F*CE, REACHED OUT
ONE PAW FOR A SNOWBALL EQG, HOLDING HIS OTHER PAW READY
TO GRAB THE BUNNY'S EAR. "I HOPE YOU LIKE THE EGG’* SAID
UNCLE WIGQILY, THINKING OF HIS BOUSE. • OH, I’M SURE I SHALL.”
ANSWERED THE PIPBISEWAH, CONFIDENT LIKE AND FLOPPING HIS
TUFFTEO TAIL. IF YOU THINK HE LIKED THE SNOWBALL EGG LOOK
AT THE NEXT PICTURE.
If the lead-pencil doesn't go swimming In the bottle of Ink and make funny marks all over the postage stamp, i’ll tell you In the pictures next week about
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE MOLA<S«tF« uifi.
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UNCLE WIGGILY HOPPED ALONG THROUGH THE WOODS UNTIL HE
CAME TO A SOFT LOG, WHERE HE SAT DOWN TO TAKE A LITTLE
SLEEP. JOHNNIE AND BILLIE BUSHYTAIL, THE SQUIRREL BOYS SAW
HIM, AND BILLIE FLIPPERED HIS TAIL AND CHATTERED: “LETS
TAKE THE EGGS OUT OF UNCLE WIGGILY'B BABKET, AND PUT SNOW
BALLS THERE INSTEAD.” SO THEY DID, HIDING THE REAL EGGS IN
A HOLLOW TREE.
ALL AT ONCE UNCLE WIGGILY SAW THE PIPSISEWAH CHASING HIM.
OFF FLEW THE BUNNY’S TALL HAT. “OH, IF I CAN ONLY SAVE THE
EGGS FOR MRS. LONGTAIL!" THOUGHT THE BUNNY, AS HE HOPPED
ALONG. HE DIDN’T KNOW THE SQUIRREL BOYS HAD CHANGED THE
EGGS INTO SNOWBALLS. NEITHER DID THE PIPSISEWAH. AND HERE
IS WHERE THE JOKE COMES IN. ON RUSHED’THE PIPSISEWAH,
AND AWAY HOPPED UNCLE WIGGILY.
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I H JLn!^ E . WAHI THINKING HE WAS GOING TO EAT AN EGG. PUT
®NOWB all into HIS 810 MOUTH. BUT. ALL AT ONCE, IT BEGAff
TO FREEZE HIS TONGUE; AND HE HOWLED AND YOWLED; ANS
ICICLES BEGAN STICKING OUT UNDER HIS HORNBI AND UNCLE
WIGGILY WAS SO SURPRISED! "OH, MY!” CRIED THE PIP3ISEWAH
"FOOLED AGAIN!” AND JOHNNIE AND BILLIE BUSYTAIL. THE SQUIR*
RELS, SEEING WHAT HAD HAPPENED, CAME SCAMPERING ALONG
WITH THE REAL EGOS WHICH THEY HAD HIDDEN IN THE TREE.
Sunday, April 27. 1919.
He Delivers the Eggs and
Fools the Pipsisewah.
ALL OF A SUDDEN UNCLE WIGGILY GAVE A BIG JUMP AND FELL OFF
THE LOG. NO WONDER! JOHNNIE BUBHYTAIL, FROM A BRANCH
OVERHEAD, HAD DROPPED A SNOWBALL ON THE BUNNY’B HAT
ONLY IN FUN, OF COURSE. “OH, MY!” CRIED UNCLE WIGGILY, “I MUST
HURRY ON WITH THESE EGGS TO MRS. LONGTAIL, THE MOUSE LADY
I HOPE NOTHING ELBE HAPPENS!" BUT JUST YOU WAIT AND SEE!
ALL OF A SUDDEN THE BAD OLD PIPSISEWAH JUMPED OUT FROM
BEHIND A BNOWBANK AND CAUGHT UNCLE WIGGILY BY THE EAR
“NOW I MUST HAVE SOME SOUSE. OR ELSE EAT AN EGG!” CRIED THE
PIPSISEWAH. "OH, BY ALL MEANS HAVE AN EGG," SUGGESTED
UNCLE WIGGILY. CONCILATORY LIKE. HE DID NOT YET KNOW THAT
THE EGGS HAD BEEN CHANGED TO BNOWBALLB. NEITHER DID THE
PIPSIBEWAH.
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AND AFTER THAT THE BAD OLD PIPSIBEWAH HELD HIS PAWS UP IN
THE AIR. AND RAN AWAY AS FAST AS HE COULD RUN. AND UNCLE
WIGGILY AND JOHNNIE AND BILLIE THREW THE REST OF THE
SNOWBALLS AT HIM, SOME EVEN HITTING HIS DUSTING BRUSH TAIL.
THEN UNCLE WIGOILY TOOK THE REAL EGGS TO MRS. LONGTAII!
WHO MADE A CAKE OF THEM AND GAVE THE SQUIRREL BOYS SOME
Text by HOWARD R. GARIS
Author of the Famous UNCLE WIGGILY BEDTIME STORIES
Pictured by LANG CAMPBELL