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Uncle Wiggily's Adventures
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UNCLE WIGGILY THOUGHT HE'D LIKE A SLIDE. THERE
WASNT SNOW ENOUGH FOR A RIDE- SO THEN THE
CANDLE GREASE HE TRIED. THE OLD BEAR NEARLY DIED I
Text by HOWARD R GARIS
Author of the Famous UNCLE WIGGILY BEDTIME STORIES
Pictured by LANG CAMPBELL
One morning when there had been a heavy frost almost as thick
as snow. in Woodland Uncle Wiggily went out on the front porch of
his hollow stump bungalow. He saw Johnnie and Billie BushytaiL the
two squirrel boys and Sammte and Susie LittletaiL the rabbits sliding
on the wooden sidewalk. The frost had made it very slippery. "Come
and have a slide Uncle Wiggily!" called Susie. "No thank you I
guess I'm too old for that" spoke the bunny. But he saw that his
own board waix was slippery ana ne wougnt oc a uy rr iaicr on.
After the rabbit and squirrel children had run on to school Uncle
Wiggily making sure Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy didn't see him tried
(o slide on his board walk. But the rising sun had wanned and melted
the thick white frost leaving the boards almost bare. Uncle Wiggily
took a run and a slide Jyt his. paws .stuck and he. fell "Dear me!
it isn't as good a slide asithemght sadly said the bunny. "Put a little
candle grease on the boards and they'll be as slippery as you wish.
JThen you can slide" said a kind Squiggle Bug.
"Oh ho! So candle grease will make my board walk slippery;
will it?" asked Uncle Wiggily of the Squiggle Bug. "It surely will"
spoke the kind insect Without letting his muskrat lady housekeeper
see him. Uncle Wiggily tiptoed in his bungalow and brought out a big
candle. This he rubbed up and down on the board walk making it so
slippery that the two Squiggle Bugs had lots of fun. "Come on try it
Uncle Wiggily!" they buzzed. "I'll try it as soon as I finish rubbing on
the candle grease" said the bunny. "I'll have a slippery slide."
Uncle Wiggily finished rubbing the slippery candle grease on the
board walk and then he got ready to try the slide. "I don't have to
wait for snow" and ice to have a coast" laughed the bunny. "I'd never
have thought of the candle grease if it had not been for you Squiggle
Bugs." The two insects were also happily sliding. All of a sudden
Nurse Jane opened the side door and called: "Uncle Wiggily! Oh
Unde Wiggfly I Please go to the store for me !" The bunny gentleman
was glad Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy bad not seen him sliding for she'd laugh.
With a basket on his paw. Uncle Wiggily. started over the hill to
the store for Nurse Jane. The bunny rabbit said nothing about having
made his front walk so slippery and the Squiggle Bugs never even
whispered about it But a little later along came Uncle Butter the
goat gentleman bringing Uncle Wiggily a cabbage. "Oh my good-
ness!" bleated Unde Butter as his feet slid out from trader him and he
fell on Uncle Wiggfly's slippery slide. "Dear me! How strange!"
said Nurse Jane looking from the window. "WLat made him fall?"
Nurse Jane opened the door and came out on the stoop as Unde
Butter picked himself up. "I guess there must be something slippery
on ray hoofs" said the goat gentleman as he made his way to the
stoop by walking on' the dirt beside the boards. "1 know the frost
made it slippery this morning but there is no frost now. What is that
white stuff on the walk Nurse Jane?" The muskrat lady was just
going to say she didn't know when she cried: "Oh look at Grandpa
Goosey!" And surely enough down went the old gentleman duck.
By going on the dirt at the side of the boards Grandoa Goosev
managed to get to the front stoop of the hollow stump bungalow with-
out falling again. Nurse Jane and Uncle Butter were dusting him off
when all of a sudden there was a loud grunt and down went Mrs.
TwistvtaiL the pig lady. She had come to call on Nurse Jane and do
a little knitting. "Oh my! What's the matter ?" squealed Mrs. Twisty-
tail. :Your-walk Is very slippery Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy!" The goose and
goat gentlemen saW: 'This is Uncle Wiggfly's doing."
"We mini bcinWK. Twistvtall uo. She is so fat she can not tret
up by herself" said Nurse Jane "Let us help her!" begged Grandpa
Goosey and Uncle Butter. Forgetting how they had slipped on the
walk they started down it only to fall again. But Nurse Jane had
started off ahead of them and she also slipped. "Be careful! That
is my slippery slide!" called Uncle WiggHy coming back from the store
just then. But it was too late! "I should have told Nurse Jane about
the candle grease" said he. "Now I wonder what the Bear will do i "
With the help of Uncle Wiggily Nurse Jane Uncle Butter Mrs.
Twistytall and Grandpa Goosey stood up and walked to the stoop
keeping on the ground. Then all of a sudden die B!ackBear rushed
m the gate "I want Uncle Wiggily!" cried the Bear. His claws stack
in the boards and he didn't slip. But just as the Bear was going to
nibble the bunny. Uncle Wiggily gave the bad chap a push and down
he went! And having no claws in his back the Bear slid down the
slippery walk and oat of the gate where he couldn't bit the bunny.
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