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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_81-0408 Enlarge and print image (5M) |
| Uncle Wiggily's Adventures Copyright, 1924, ^ The McClure Newspaper Syndicate. ^9k Trade-Mark Registered. THANKSGIVING COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR. PERHAPS TeXt bV HOWARD R. GARIS THAT'S VERY WISE. OR, ELSE, WE'D EAT TOO MANY CAKES AND ALSO PUMPKIN PIES. WOULDN'T WE? Author of the Famous UNCLE WIGGILY BEDTIME STORIES Pictured by LANG CAMPBELL 1. "Now my Thanksgiving table is set, thanks to Nurse Jane, and everything is ready for the company," said Uncle Wiggily, as he tickled the cranberries under the chin. Then the bunny hurried out to telephone his friends to come. Curly and Floppy were two bad little pig boys. "We'll saw thcleg of the table and make it.fall," grunted Curly. "And when the things spill we'll eat them," whissered Floppy. 2. "Are you going to hide here until the company is eating, and then kick on the sawed table leg ?" asked Floppy of his brother. "No, we'll tie a long string to the piece we've sawed off," answered Curly. "We'll take the string out under a tree and then, when Uncle Wiggily and his company are having the Thanksgiving feast, we'll pull 'the String!" Floppy squeaked: "Quee! Quee!" The bad little chaps! 3. No sooner had Curly and Floppy crawled out of the window with the table leg string, than Uncle Wiggily, carrying a ptimpkin pie, hopped into the room with Uncle Butter. "1 want to show you the Thanksgiving table before we eat," said the rabbit. "Yes, but look!" bleated the goat. Some of the Bad Chaps are going to play a trick on you!" Uncle Wiggily said he would play a trick himself, for once. 4. "You get a nail and some pieces of wood, Uncle Butter," said the rabbit. "You mend the sawed table leg and I'll get the wringer; for Nurse Jane never washes on Thanksgiving." Uncle Butter wanted to know what Uncle Wiggily could do with a wringer. "I'll fasten this string to the rollers and wind it up. Whoever is at the other end of the string will run along to grab it. Then we'll have 'em!" said the bunny. 5. While Uncle Wiggily was getting ready to spoil the trick which he thought' the Fox and Wolf were trying to play, Curly and Floppy went off in the woods with the end of the string. '"I'll fasten it around my waist," grunted Floppy. "You take a good hold of it, Curly, and when 1 say 'Ready!' we'll pull hard. Out will come the sawed table leg, down will come the table and we'll run in and eat a lot!" 6. "Well, 1 mended that table leg. It's stronger than before," said Uncle Butter. Uncle Wiggily had the string fast in the wringer. "Now we'll turn the crank and wind up the cord," said the rabbit. "1 should like to see who is on the other end." The bunny arrd goat turned the handle, winding in the cord. "What's this?" cried Nurse Jane. "I'm bringing In more Thanksgiving guests!" said the rabbit 7. All of a sudden, just as Curly and Floppy were going to pull on the string and upset the table, as they thought, they found Ihemselves being pulled along on the ground. "Hi, what's this?" squealed Floppy. "Some giant or a big bear has hold of the other end of Our string!" grunted Curly. "Maybe some one is taking away Uncle Wig-gily's Thanksgiving table!" added Floppy; Over the ground they went. 8. "Hold hard!" grunted Floppy. "Brace yourself, Curly!" Curly said he was holding hard and bracing himself. "But it doesn't do any good!" he squealed. On the other end of the string Uncle Wiggily an*d Uncle Butter were turning the Wringer handle. "We'll soon have them here-—whoever it is!" bleated the goat. "Yes, 1 wonder who it is?" Spoke the bunny. Then, all of a sudden, Curly and Floppy went up! 9. What goes up must come down, you know, and over the tree branch the piggie boys were pulled- tolling on the other side, then Uncle Wiggily wound in on the string until he had pulled Curly and Floppy through the Open window. "Piggie boys!" cried the bunny* "I didn't know you were playing the trick on me. But never wind. You're just in time for Thanksgiving dinner! Come on, Nurse Jane!" And if the ice cream doesn't bide under the gas stove to get away from the gold fish when they're playing dominoes, the next pictures and story will be UNC1LE WJGGiLY'S RADIO, |