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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_81-0082 Enlarge and print image (5M) |
| Uncle Wiggily's Adventures Copyright, 1924, by The McClure Newspaper Syndicate. Trade-Mark Registered. UNCLE W1GGILY ONE DAY WENT OUT TO PLAY TENNIS, WITH A GENTLEMAN PIG WHOSE NAME IT WAS DENNIS. THE NET WAS AS WET AS THOUGH IT CAME FROM VENICE. Text by HOWARD R GARIS Author of the Famous UNCLE WIGC1LY BEDTIME STORlfiS Pictured by LANG CAMPBELL 1. One day, as Uncle Wiggily was half asleep in his garden, Mr. Dennis Twistytail, the gentleman pig, waddled along. Mr. Twistytail had a tennis ball and racket. "I'd like to play a game!" he grunted. "I'll get Uncle Wiggily, and see what he says!" When near the hollow stump bungalow, Mr. Twistytail shot a ball. It hit the bunny, and the pig gentleman heard plainly what the rabbit said. Oh, yes! 2. Uncle Wiggily picked himself up and cried: "Why did you do that; Mr. Twistytail?" The pig gentleman said he was sorry. "1 didn't mean to hit you!" he grunted, "but will you play tennis?" The bunny said he would, so the two friends went to a court near the sea. "We have no net over which to knock the balls!" said the pig. "There are fish nets'out there," the rabbit cried. "We'll pull one ashore." 3. Rowing out to the fish net in a boat, Uncle Wiggily and the pig gentleman pulled up what they wanted. They hauled it to shore. "Look!" grunted Mr. Twistytail, "we have a lot of fish and other funny things!" The bunny laughed. "So we have, but no matter!" The Old Sea Dog, whose net it was, barked: "WufT! WufT! What are you chaps doing ?" So the bunny and pig invited him to watch them play. 4. The Old Sea Dog was a jolly chap after all, and helped Uncle Wiggily stretch the fish net across the tennis court. "There's a lot of net left over," barked the Dog, "but we won't cut it off." The bunny volleyed a ball toward the pig gentleman. "Fore!" cried the rabbit. "Ho! Ho!" laughed Mr. Twistytail. "This isn/t golf you're playing!" The. Sea Dog laughed and said: "1 think something will happen!" 5. All of a sudden, just as Mr. Twistytail was reaching up to hit the ball Uncle Wiggily knocked, out of the net popped a curious chap called an Octopus. The Octopus had eight long arms, and two big eyes. Reaching up one of his arms (or legs if you so wish to call them), the Octopus caught the ball. "Is this good to eat?" he asked in a cold fishy voice. The Sea Dog said something would happen. 6, The Old Sea Qog spoke gently to the eight-legged Octopus, who gave Mr. Twistytail the tennis ball. Then the Octopus crawled back to the sea, and the pig gentleman took a turn at playing tennis. "See if you can reach this swift one, Uncle Wiggily I" he grunted. The bunny missed it and-fell. .But a big lobster,-crawling out of the net, reached a claw toward the. ball. "Let me play!" he sissed. 7. The Lobster -liked the tennis ball so much that the Sea Dog had hard work to get it away from him, but at last he did. "Now 1 will send you a swift ball, Mr Twistytail''" cried Uncle Wiggily. He drew back his racket to hit the ball a hard whack when, all of a sudden, out of the net flopped a queer iish. "Goopie! Goopie!" giggled the Fish. "Don't hit ihat ball, Uncle Wiggily! You may hurt it!" 8. Uncle Wiggily laughed at the funny fish that hid caught him by the trousers. But the bunny's laughter soon changed to fright as he saw the bad Bob Cat, who had been hiding in the bushes, leap out at him, Over the net skipped the Bob Cat, hungry for ears. "Let Uncle Wiggily alone!" grunted the pig, and the Sea Dog threw a ball at the bad chap. "Let him come!" cried the bunny "I'm ready for'himl" fe Tha Bob Cat triad to jump over the fish net, but he did not teap high enough, and one of his legs tangled. Down he fell. "Quick now!" cried Uncle Wiggily, who saw the bad chap caught in the net. "Help me pull up the net, Mr. Twistytail, and we'll haul the Bob Cat in it to the sea and make him take a bath!" The Bob Cat howled "Yow! YowT for he didn't like water. But into the ocean he was plopped. Arid if the jumping jack doesn't try to play golf with the sugar bowl, and api n salt down tha back of tha chair* tha nest eteey ead pktsree will ba about UNCLE WIGGILY MAKING A &Wim |