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I 1r\n l& lAfinniK/^Q A H\/*<*r.t 11 TftQ ",T IS THE ^osty season, hoi for some jolly fun. Text by HOWARD R. GARIS \J I |V>lV> VV 1VI VJ II V O /\V>1 V \J1 iUUl VJ*J? THE NUTTY TREES BEND IN THE BREEZE—A FEAST FOR Author of the Famous UNCLE WIGG1LY BEDTIME STORIES * «-„ „.„„», *> EVERYONE!" SO SANG UNCLE WIGGILY ONE DAY. Pictured bv LANG CAMPBELL fHWfjML ftty, ft* Tha MeCtlr* Newspaper Syndicate, tered. 1 ran* I, Uncle.Butter, the gpat gentleman, called on Uncle Wiggily one day, and just for fun, Uncle Butter juggled Nurse Jane's washboard on hisnose, "Look at me, Uncle Wiggily!" he bleated. "No! You look here!" cried the bunny. "Such a strange sight! Do you see what I see, Uncle Butter ?" The goat asked what the rabbit saw. "I see an upside down basket walking along on four little legs!" cried the bunny. patfn*'*' 2. Uncle Butter stopped juggling the washboard and pul it across two stumps. Then, dancing up there he bleated: "Oh, this is something magical, I'm sure!" The upside down basket came nearer, and the bunny was going to run away, when he heard a laugh. Out from under the basket scampered Johnnie and Billie Bushytail, the squirrels. "Come and help us shoot some nuts off the trees!" " *v chattered. mftyiiu^ «u4 •ill * *- 3. "Whaf s that ?" shouted Uncle Wiggily. "You want me to come on a nutting party with you ?" The squirrels said yes. "Then we must take Uncle Butter along," said the rabbit. "He will bump trie trees and shake down the nuts. You can't shoot nuts with pop guns." So off they started to where the nut trees grew. Nurse Jane gave the bunny a bed sheet, and this was hela beneath a tree. "ZipJ" went the goat 4. "BangP Uncle Butter hit the tree with his head very hard. A few nuts rattled down into the sheet, and Uncle Wiggily cried: "That's goodt Do It again!" But the poor goat bleated: "Baa-a-a! Baa-a-a! I can't My horns are stuck fast in the tree. 1 can't get loose!" Uncle Wiggily dropped his corner of the sheet and hopped to help his friend the goat. "Oh, dear!" cried Billie and Johnnie. "Oh! Oh!" j£ - '£ fH4 -in 11**'! *. 7„ AT 5. Uncle Wiggily looked at Uncle Butter and then at the tree. "You surely are stuck fast!" said the rabbit. "I know it already!" bleated the goat. "Try to pull me loose!" So the bunny gentleman got hold of one of Uncle Butter's hind legs and Johnnie and Billie held the other leg. "Now get ready!" whispered the Squiggle Bug, "and when I say push, you must all pull hard." Billie thought this very queer. *w» ill TTfTT / 6. By pulling when the Squiggle Bug cried "Push!" Uncle Wiggily and the squirrel boys at last got Uncle Butter free from where he way stuck in the tree. "No more of that for me!" bleated the goat. "Theft how are we going to get any nuts?" asked the rabbit. "Let the wind blow them down," cried the goat. Soon the wind blew hard ahd down showered the nuts. The bunny picked a toadstool for an umbrella. 7. Sheltered beneath the toadstool, Uncle Wiggily and his friends watched the wind blow the basket full of nuts. "Now we can go and make nut candy!" chattered Billie, as he and his brother tilled .their caps. Suddenly, on the way home, a Bear rushed out of the wood's. "I want Uncle Wiggily!" growled the Bear. "Run! Run!" cried the brave little Squiggle Bug, tying a string to the Bear's tail. "I'll hold him!" mMW/}' ^^^W^^ 8. The Squiggle Bug was brave, but he wasn't very strong, and he couldn't hold back the Bear. On lumbered the bad chap. "Uncle Butter, you must help!" cried Uncle Wiggily. "Bump the Bear as you bumped the tree. Your horns won't stick in 'the Bear, but they will tickle his ribs." The goat ran at the Bear. "Bunkity-bippo!" he slammed into Mr. Bruin. "Wowzie scowzje!" howled the Bear. /o- 2C — 24 9. Uncle Wiggily hit the Bear so hard that the bad chap was knocked off his feet. "Now do you want Uncle Wiggiiy ?" asked the goat as he sat down on a stump to rest himself. "No! No!" howled the Bear. "I want to go to the drug store to get some paregoric!" And away he ran while the bunny and the squirrels threw stones after him. "Ha! Ha!" laughed the brave Squiggle Bug. "Who's afraid of a Bear ? I'm not!" And if the grasshopper doesn't take ail the butter off the slice of bread, after the pie has jumped over Ihe sugar bowl, the next pictures and story will be about UNCLE WIGGILY'S ROLLER COASTER.