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Uncle Wiggilys Adventures Copyright, 19*4, &!/ The McClure KewspaiJcr Syndicate. Trade-Mark Registered. ON APRIL FOOL IT'S JOLLY FUN, TO PLAY A TRICK UPON SOMEONE. SO UNCLE WIGGILY MADE THE BEAR FEEL JUST AS FOOLISH AS HE DARE. HA! HA! Text by HOWARD R. GARIS Author of the famous UNCLE WIGGILY BEDTIME STORISft Pictured by LANG CAMPBELL J, On the morning of April Fool day Baby Bunty came down stairs early in the hollow stump bungalow. She got the bag'of salt and went to the breakfast table, before Uncle Wiggily had come down. "Oh, Bunty, what are you doing?" Cried Nurse Jane. "Hush!" begged the little rabbit girl. "I'm putting salt in the sugar bowl to fool Uncle Wiggily when he takes his coffee. This is the first of April, you know!" 2. The rabbit gentleman came-down stairs to breakfast, his pink nose twinkling like a joHy star on a Christmas tree. "Good morning, Nurse Jane! Good morning, Baby Bunty!" greeted Uncle Wiggily. "I must see what news is'in the paper." Reading the paper, he reached his spoon over to dip out some sugar for his coffee without looking at what he was doing. "Oh, what a joke there will be!" whispered Bunty. A 4. Baby Bunty was much disappointed because her trick didn't work. But if she*could have seen what Curly and Floppy Twistytail were doing she might have laughed. "We'll stuff this pocketbook full of paper and make it look like money!" grunted Floppy. "Yes," said Curly, "and we'll tie a string to it and hide. When Uncle Wiggily tries to pick it Up we'll pull it away and holler 'April Fool!' Oh," what fun!" 5. No sooner was the string tied to the pocketbook than Floppy looked around and cried: "Here's comes Uncle Wiggily! We must hide where he won't see us!" Leaving the pocketbook, with the long string fastened to it, on the sidewalk, the piggie boys hid around the corner. Along came the bunny, feeling very spry. "1 wonder why all the animal boys and girls are watching me so closely?" he thought. H 7. A little v/hile after this, Curly and Floppy, trying to think of some other April Fool tricks, went to the woods. All of a sudden they saw a Bear walking along. Then they saw the rabbit gentleman standing with his back toward the Bear. "Oh, Floppy!" whispered Curly, "we must tell Uncle Wiggily the Bear is after him!" Floppy shook his head. "Uncle Wiggily will think we are trying to April Fool him," he said. & ~ ^1 /A 8. All of a quickness, the Bear made a jump and landed on the rabbit before Floppy or Curly could cry out a warning. "Now I've got you, Uncle Wiggily!" growled the Bear. "You can't get away from me, even if it is April Fool!" The Bear mauled the figure of the rabbit. "Oh! Oh!" squealed Floppy and Curly as thev threw sticks and stones at the Bear. "We should have told Uncle Wiggily to look out!" 3. Just as Uncle Wiggily was going to dip his spoon in the salt that filled the sugar bowl, the rabbit gentleman suddenly stopped and, pushing away his coffee cup, which he hadn't tasted, he said: "I think 1 would rather have milk instead of coffee this morning, Nurse Jane. Hease get me a glass of milk!" And so Baby Bunty couldn't cry "April Fool!" at Uncle Wiggily, because he didn't take a.ny salt' 6. All of a sudden, just as the piggie boys thought Uncle Wiggily would stoop over and pick up the purse, when they intended to pull the string—all at once the rabbit gentleman stepped on the pocketbook. "BingP the string broke as the piggie boys pulled on it. "Aw, that isn't fair!" grunted Floppy, for the trick was spoiled. "Ha! Ha!" laughed Uncle Wiggily. "You can't April Fool me that way. Oh, no!" L 9. With his claws and teeth the Bear bit, tore and scratched. Then all at once, from behind a tree stepped Uncle Wiggily himself! "Hoi Ho!" laughed the rabbit, 'i April-Fooled you after all, Mr. Bear! I made a stuffed rabbit to look like me! It was the stuffed rabbit you mauled! Here 1 am, safe and sound! Ha! Ha!" The Bear was so ashamed of befcig fooled'that away he ran and the piggie bovs danced. \ Now if the cabbage doesn't stand on its head and tickle the umbrella in the rib* to make the gold fish laugh, the next pictures and story wŁU be UNCLE WIGGILY'S APRIL SHGWEK.