Uncle Wiggilys Adventures

Uncle Wiggily's Adventures

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Title: Uncle Wiggily's Adventures
Author: Howard R. Garis
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UNCLE WIGGILY'S ADVENTURES
By HOWARD R. GARIS
_Author of "Sammie and Susie Littletail," "Johnnie and Billie
Bushytail." "Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble," "Jackie and
Peetie Bow-Wow," "Those Smith Boys," "The Island Boys" etc._
Illustrations by
LOUIS WISA
A.L. BURT COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
THE FAMOUS

BED TIME SERIES
Five groups of books, intended for reading aloud to the little folks each
night. Each volume contains 8 colored illustrations, 31 stories, one for
each day of the month. Handsomely bound in cloth. Size 6-1/2 x 8-1/4.
HOWARD R. GARIS
=Bed Time Animal Stories=
No. 1. SAMMIE AND SUSIE LITTLETAIL No. 2. JOHNNY AND
BILLY BUSHYTAIL No. 3. LULU, ALICE & JIMMIE
WIBBLEWOBBLE No. 5. JACKIE AND PEETIE BOW-WOW No. 7.
BUDDY AND BRIGHTEYES PIGG No. 9. JOIE, TOMMIE AND
KITTIE KAT No. 10 CHARLIE AND ARABELLA CHICK No. 14
NEDDIE AND BECKIE STUBTAIL No. 16 BULLY AND BAWLY
NO-TAIL No. 20 NANNIE AND BILLIE WAGTAIL No. 28 JOLLIE
AND JILLIE LONGTAIL
=Uncle Wiggily Bed Time Stories=
No. 4 UNCLE WIGGILY'S ADVENTURES No. 6 UNCLE
WIGGILY'S TRAVELS No. 8 UNCLE WIGGILY'S FORTUNE No.
11 UNCLE WIGGILY'S AUTOMOBILE No. 19 UNCLE WIGGILY
AT THE SEASHORE No. 21 UNCLE WIGGILY'S AIRSHIP No. 27
UNCLE WIGGILY IN THE COUNTRY
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For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the
publishers
=A.L. BURT CO., 114-120 East 23d St., New York=
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COPYRIGHT, 1912 By R.F. FENNO & COMPANY _Uncle Wiggily's
Adventures_

=UNCLE WIGGILY'S ADVENTURES=

STORY I
UNCLE WIGGILY STARTS OFF
Uncle Wiggily Longears, the nice old gentleman rabbit, hopped out of
bed one morning and started to go to the window, to see if the sun was
shining. But, no sooner had he stepped on the floor, than he cried out:
"Oh! Ouch! Oh, dear me and a potato pancake! Oh, I believe I stepped
on a tack! Sammie Littletail must have left it there! How careless of

him!"
You see this was the same Uncle Wiggily, of whom I have told you in
the Bedtime Books--the very same Uncle Wiggily. He was an Uncle to
Sammie and Susie Littletail, the rabbit children, and also to Billie and
Johnnie Bushytail, the squirrel boys, and to Alice and Lulu and Jimmie
Wibblewobble, the duck children, and I have written for you, books
about all those characters. Now I thought I would write something just
about Uncle Wiggily himself, though of course I'll tell you what all his
nephews and nieces did, too.
Well, when Uncle Wiggily felt that sharp pain, he stood still for a
moment, and wondered what could have happened.
"Yes, I'm almost sure it was a tack," he said. "I must pick it up so no
one else will step on it."
So Uncle Wiggily looked on the floor, but there was no tack there, only
some crumbs from a sugar cookie that Susie Littletail had been eating
the night before, when her uncle had told her a go-to-sleep story.
"Oh, I know what it was; it must have been my rheumatism that gave
me the pain!" said the old gentleman rabbit as he looked for his red,
white and blue crutch, striped like a barber pole. He found it under the
bed, and then he managed to limp to the window. Surely enough, the
sun was shining.
"I'll certainly have to do something about this rheumatism," said Uncle
Wiggily as he carefully shaved himself by looking in the glass. "I guess
I'll see Dr. Possum."
So after breakfast, when Sammie and Susie had gone to school, Dr.
Possum was telephoned for, and he called to see Uncle Wiggily.
"Ha! Hum!" exclaimed the doctor, looking very wise. "You have the
rheumatism very bad, Mr. Longears."
"Why, I knew that before you came," said the old gentleman rabbit,
blinking his eyes. "What I want is something to cure it."
"Ha! Hum!" said Dr. Possum, again looking very wise. "I think you
need a change of air. You must travel about. Go on a journey, get out
and see strange birds, and pick the pretty flowers. You don't get
exercise enough."
"Exercise enough!" cried Uncle Wiggily.