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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_81-0549 Enlarge and print image (5M) |
| Uncle Wiggily's Adventures Copyright, 1924, &U The UcClure Newspaper ayndicqte. Trade-Mark Registered, EASTER EGGS BRING JOLLY JOY, TO EVERY GIRL—TO EVERY BOY. THE RED AND BLUE—A SHEET OF WHITE-MADE THE BAD CHAPS RUN WITH ALL THEIR MIGHT. Text by HOWARD R. GARIS Author of the Famous UNCLE WIGG1LY BEDTIME STORIES Pictured by LANG CAMPBELL i. When Easter came of course Uncle Wiggily had to color the eggs for the animal girls and boys. The bunny gentleman made many pots and pans of bright colors, red, blue, green and yellow. Mrs. Cluck-Cluck, the hen lady, gave him the eggs. As Mr. Longears was boiling the dye on the stove, in came Baby Bunty. "Oh, Uncle Wiggily, what color is this?" cried the rabbit girl, standing on a chair to look. 2. Farther.and farther over the pan of dye leaned Baby Bunty. "Be careful!" warned Uncle Wiggily. "I want to see what color it is!" the little rabbit girl said. Just then her chair slipped, and into the egg color she fell! "Oh, now 1 see what color it is!" she cried. "It's blue!" She splashed it all over Nurse Jane's apron. "What's going on here?" cried the muskrat. "My pink nose is blue!" said the bunny. 4. "Let that pan alone, Floppy!" advised Uncle Wiggily. "But 1 want to see what color it is," squealed the little piggie boy. And }u.St then Bunty, up in her high chair, shouted: "Oh, he's going to see all right—just like 1 did!" And, as truly as I'm telling you, Floppy pulled a lot of red dye all down over himself- "Oh, what a day this is going to be for Easter Sunday!" gasped Uncle Wiggily. "Oh! Oh!" 5. Nurse Jane came in and helped to dry Floppy. "1 think you have colored enough eggs—and children—for one day," said the muskrat lady. "J think so," spoke Mr. Longears. "Now I'll put the eggs away until Easter morning." He piled the eggs on a.platter. Floppy andBaby Bunty sat on the floor to play. "Don't get in Uncle Wig-gily's way, children!" called Nurse Jane. "No'm, we won't!" they said. 7, While this was going on inside the stump bungalow, on the outside was the Alligator and the Fox. "We must catch Uncle Wiggily this time, sure!" barked the Fox. "I'm with you!" gargled the 'Gator. "Look,"'went on thej-ox. "We'll hide behind that sheet on the line. When the door opens we'll slip in and catch the rabbit. Come on, Mr. Alligator; we'll hide behind the sheet!" On walked the bad chaps. 8. With Nurse Jane's help, Uncle Wiggily picked up Bunty and Floppy and set them in chairs. "Now don't move until I clean up this mess!" warned. Nurse Jane. "1 can save' some of the eggs," spoke Uncle Wiggily. "They aren't all broken." He picked them up and put them on the'table. "I'll throw out the red and blue dye; I've finished using it," he said. And out of the window he tossed the pretty colors. 3. Uncle Wiggily arid Nurse Jane pulled Baby Bunty out of the dye pan, and the poor thing was all blue. "Never mind," said Uncle Wiggily, "it will wash off after a while. Now sit in your high chair, Bunty, until I finish coloring these other eggs." While Bunty was drying in her chair, in came Floppy Twistytail. "Oh, 1 want to see what color this is!" squealed the piggie boy, pullingvat a pan on the table. 6. Of course Bunty and Floppy didn't mean to have anything happen, but it did, all the same. Along walked Uncle Wiggily to put the eggs away when, all of a sudden, he tripped and fell! Right over Bunty and Floppy he fell! Oh!" gasped Floppy. "Oh, dear!" sighed Bunty. "Oh, dear me!" shouted the rabbit. "1 don't know what 1 would do if Easter came more than once a year." How the eggs roiled! 4 -2o -24 9. Not knowing the sheet was hanging on the line, Uncle Wiggily threw the red and blue dye all over it. And the blowing wind splashed the dye on the white sheet, making red and white strips and many stars. When the Fox and Alligator saw that the sheet looked like a flag they cried: "We'd better run! Uncle Wiggiiv must have some soldiers in his bungalow!" And run away they did, while the bunny laughed. And if the apple pie 4<>esn't get so proud that it won't sit next to the bread and butter in the movies, the next story and picture* will be ajbonjt UNCLE WIGGILY IN THE PIRATES' CAVE. i2£±l > land State Archives mdsa_sc34io_i_8i-0549.j |