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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_81-0430 Enlarge and print image (5M) |
| Uncle Wiggily's Adventures Copyright, 1924, by The McClure Newspaper Syndicate. Trade-Mark Registered. HOW TO GET STATION X Y Z HAS NEVER BEEN QUITE CLEAR TO ME. BUT IF YOU WANT A FOX TO GO, JUST HITCH HIM TO YOUR RADIO. HE'LL CRY: "OH! OH! OH!" Text by HOWARD R. GARIS Author of the Famous UNCLE WIGG1LY BEDTIME STORIES Pictured by LANG CAMPBELL 1. Every night Uncle Wiggily listened to his radio, sometimes by the loud-speaker and again through the telephones. Often he would listen to a bedtime story and then he would go to sleep. And that's what he has done now—fallen asleep. "Come on in, Floppy!'' bleated Billie Wagtail. "We'll play a radio trick on Uncle Wiggily. You get inside the box and make believe you are a loud speaker. 2, While the rabbit gentleman still slept, for there was no radio sounding just then, Billie and Floppy took the inside works—the wires and other jiggers—out of the cabinet. "Now you crawl in, Floppy," said the goat boy, "and when Uncle Wiggily awakens, and turns the knobs, you squeal-like a rubber ball." Floppy said he would, and Billie bleated: "I'll get Tommie Kat to crawl" in after you finish!" 3. Billie left Floppy hidden inside the radio cabinet. Then Uncle Wiggily awakened. He turned one of the knobs and Floppy knew it was time to start the joke. "Q^ue! Quee! Queekie!" squealed the piggie. "My goodness! This Is a new station!" cried Uncle Wiggily. "Come here, Nurse Jane!" The muskrat lady wanted to know why. "I've picked up South Africa! A wild pig is squealing!" said the bunny. 4. Nurse Jane didn't believe it possible for Uncle Wiggily to have picked up South Africa. But she heard the piggie squeal. "There must be something wrong with the loud speaker," she said. "Let's look." And while she and the bunny had their heads almost inside the horn, Billie the goat came in with Tommie Kat. "Take Floppy's place, Tommie," said Billie. "We'll play more tricks on Uncle Wiggily!" 5. "The loud speaker seems all right," said Nurse Jane. "But you can't have gotten South Africa. It must be static." She and the bunny listened, but, for a time, no sounds came out. "I'm going back and wash the dishes," said Miss Fuzzy Wiizzy. Just then Uncle Wiggily heard Tommie mew, and the bunny cried: "Come and listen to this, Nurse Jane. It's a wild-cat purring! 1 must have picked up Arizona!" 6. Nurse Jane listened to the queer noises that seemed to come out of the radio. "It's either Arizona or New Mexico!" said Uncle Wiggily. "It's neither one!" cried the muskrat lady. "1 guess 1 know Tommie Kat's mewing when 1 hear it! Come out of that, you little.tyke!" she cried, and pulled Tommie forth by his tail. "Oh, ho! So they were playing tricks on me, were they?" asked the bunny. Ho! Ho! Ho!" 1: All of a sudden Uncle Wiggily stopped laughing, for in rushed Billie and Floppy. "Quee! Quee!" squealed the little pig. "What's the matter?" asked Nurse Jane. "The Fuzzy Fox is outside. He's trying to get into nibble Uncle Wiggily. The bunny gentleman didn't seem frightened. "Let the Fox in!" he cried. "Oh, no!" begged Nurse Jane. "Yes, let him listen to the radio!" said the rabbit. 8. Even before he was invited to enter, the Fox stalked in. "I'm looking for ears to nibble!" he growled. "Yours look good to me, Uncle Wiggily." The rabbit said: "You wouldn't like my ears at all. They are old and tough. But sit down and listen to my radio while Nurse Jane cuts you a piece of cake." As the Fox put the ear 'phones on, the bunny ran a wire to the electric light socket to shock the Fox. U-3.D -24 9. "Do you hear station X Y Z, Mr. Fox?" asked Uncle Wiggily. *M don't hear anything!" growled the bad chap. "1 don't want to listen to nothing! I'm going to nibble your ears!" The bunny begged' him to wait a moment. "I'll turn on the current and you'll hear something," said the rabbit. He gave the bad Fox a shock from the electric light wire. "Goopie! Snoopie!" howled the Fox, dancing around. A^tfd if the sardine doesn't blow a horn and make the gold fish think it's Friday when it's only Monday, the next pictures and story will he about UNCLE WIGGILY'S CHRISTMAS TREE, \ |