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I JnrJB Winnilv\s Adventures ustwhile i s,ng you a right joLiY tune- uncle Text by howard r garis \-y ilUIU VWlVJVjII^y O JT\ UVUUUUi VJ? V-7 wIGGILY WAS CAUGHT BY THE BAD CHAPS, BUT SOON, HE Author or the Famous uncle wiggily bedtime storie: Copyright. Jtl*, ftp The McClure Newspaper Syndicate. Trade-Mark Registered. FLEW AWAY OFF IN A HOT-AIR BALLOON! Pictured by LANG CAMPBELL f« One day Uncle Wiggily visited his friend Old Dog Percival: "Put on your coat and come out in the woods with me," invited the bunny. "We'll gather wood, make a bonfire and roast potatoes. 1 have the potatoes in my pocket." So out in the woods the friends built a fire, and gathered wood to keep it going. The Fox and Bob Cat smelled the smoke and the Fox said: "1 know a trick we can play on them!" 4. "Who are these friends of yours, Uncle Wiggily?" barked Old Dog Percival as he saw the two animals with the wood on their heads. "I don't know," replied the bunny. "Perhaps one is Uncle Butter, bui the other—" The Fox and Bob Cat suddenly dropped their bundles. "Now you see who we are I" cried the bad chaps. "Come to our den!" And the Bob Cat dragged Percival while the Fox took Uncle Wiggily. 7. Uncle Wiggily put the piece of pipe in the stone fireplace of the bad chaps, and started a blaze. Up out of the pipe rushed the hot air, as it does when a man goes up in a balloon at the fair. "Now we'll button our big coats together and make a bag to hold the hot air," went on the rabbit. "When the coat balloon fills up with hot air and smoke, we will both hang to it and be lifted out of this den!" 2. "What sort of a trick ?" asked the Bob Cat. "We'll play a trick so we can catch Uncle Wiggily and bring him to the den," whispered the Fox. "Listen. We shall each gather a bundle of sticks for the bon fire. "We'll put the bundles of sticks'on our heads and Uncle Wiggily won't know us. Neither will Percival. We can get close up to them before they see who we are. By that time we shall have caught them!" ^^-' 3. "That's a good trick!" snarled the Bob Cat. But if Uncle Wiggily had heard of it he would have said it was a bad one. However, the bunny and old Dog Percival soon had a fine fire blazing. "Now we'll roast some potatoes," said Mr. Longears. "Yes, and now we'll catch you!" said the Fox. With bundles of wood on their heads, so they wouldn't be known, the bad chaps Went closer and closer to the fire. J 5. "Let us go! Let us go!" cried Uncle Wiggily. "Yes, we, shall let you go to our den, but nowhere else!" laughed the Bob Cat. Soon he and the Fox pulled the rabbit and dog to a den amid the rocks. "Now you stay here until we get the Woozie Wolf!" snarled the Bob Cat, pushing Percival into a corner. "We shall soon return with him." Uncle Wiggily saw a piece of pipe and the fireplace. He had an idea. 6. Look here, Percival!" cried Uncle Wiggily, when the Fox and Bob Cat had gone, shutting the rock door after them, "I know how we can get out of here." The dog looked at the high, steep rocks on all sides of them. "You might jump out, but 1 can't," he said. "We need a balloon!" The bunny laughed and said: "That's just what we will make—a big hot air baUoon out of e?ur coats! First the hot air.!" 8. When Uncle Wiggily and Old Dog Percival were making their coats into a hot air balloon, the Fox and Bob Cat met the Woozie Wolf. "Come to our den, Mr. Wolf!" they invited. "What have you to eat there?" growled the Wolf. "Uncle Wiggily!" snickered the Bob Cat. "He is good enough for me!" growled the Wolf. "Look!" cried the Bob Cat, "some one has started a fire in our place!" 9. "We'd better hurry!" cried the Fox. "Maybe Uncle Wiggily is trying to burn down our den." The Bob Cat said: "It can't' burn—it's stone. Uncle Wiggily can't get out. We'll soon be nibbling his ears!" But as the Fox opened the rock door of his den, and he and the two bad chaps ran in—why, Uncle Wiggily and Percival just caught hold of the sleeves of the coat balloon, and they were lifted out by the hot air. And if the griddle cake will turn a somersault and flop over, so the molasses can sweeten both sides of it, the next story and pictures will be about UNCLE WIGGILY'S THANKSGIVING.