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UNCLE WIGGILY AND FLOPPY'S FLOWERS Copyrighted, 1921 by McClure News- paper Syndicate, (By Howard R. Garis,) "When you go adventuring to- -day, Uncle Wiggily, I wish you would do an errand for me," called Nurse Jane Fu#zy, the muskrat lady house- keeper, to the bunny rabbit gentle- man as he skipped lightly and airily dowh the steps of his hollow stump buhigalow one morning. 5 will do, two erands for you if wish, Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy," an- phi A nels Wiggily, "Orie will pe enough this time," laughe the housekeeper lady. "From the drug store please bring me a bottle of perfume, some violet talcum powder ahd some rose scent- ed spap." ; "My, you are going' to be very fancy, aren't you ?"" laughed Uncle Wiggily. 'But I'll bring you the perfume, the talcum powder and rose soap, Nurse Jane." Adventures seemed to be rather scarce that morning. For, though Uncle Wiggily hopped here, there and everywhere and though he look- ed in' hollow stumps and under fallen logs, not an adventure could he find. "Well, I'll go get the sweet smell- ing things for = Nurse Jane," the bunny. rabbit gentlman said, *Af- ter that something may happen." And it did, Mr. Longears was hopping along, twinkling his pink nose jn the soft May sunshine, when, all of a sudden he heard some voices laughing. "Ha! ha! ha!" chuckled the voices. "Oh, what flowers, Floppy! What funny flowers! The lady mouse teacher will never put those on her desk!' That ifs what the voices said. Uncle Wiggily listened a little more and he heard the grunting voice of Floppy Twistytail, the piggle boy, saying: "I don't care! I picked these May flowers for the lady mouse teacher and I'm gobing to give 'em to her! I dom't care!" "Those aren't flowers! They aren't flowers at all, Floppy," bleat- ed Billie Wagtail, the goat. Uncle Wiggily peered over the top of a sassafras bush and he saw sevy- eral of the animal boys and girls runing op to the hollow stump school, leaving Floppy Twistytail. the piggie boy, standing alone and holding a bunch of something green in one of his legs. "What's the matter, 'Floppy asked Uncle Wiggily, coming for- ward. "Oh, it's these flowers," Floppy answered, digging one foot down in the dirt, bashful like. "Anyhow, I call them flowers, and I gathered em for the lady mouse teacher in the hollow stump school. "But Billie, the goat, and Alice Wibblewobble, the duck, say they're only weeds. And Arabella, the chicken girl, says they don't have 2 nice perfume like real flowers have,' went on Floppy. "But I think they're | pretty; don't you, Uncle Wiggily?" Pe » Pv and the piggie boy held out the bunch of green things he had gath- ered, "Yes, Floppy, they are very pretty," answered the bunny. "But to tell: you the truth, they are weeds." : "Qh, dear!" grunted Floppy. "And I 50" wanted to take teacher a houquet of May flowers, as the other children did!" "Never mind, Floppy," went on Mr, Longears, "Some , weeds are prettier than some flowers, and yQu have gathered some very fine weeds; really you haye. The only thing about them, though," said the bunny uncle, "is that they don't have a very nice smell, But we can soon fix that!" he said, cheerfully. "How? asked Floppy, eagerly, "I have here," said Uncle Wiggily, taking some packages from his pocket, I have here some orange perfume, some violet talcum powdar and rose-scented, soap that I bought at the drug store for Nurse Jape, If, with all these, we can't make this bouquet of weeds smell like a posey garden I shall be much disappoint- ed! To work, Floppy!" cried the bunny, real jolly like. No soener said than done. While Floppy held the weeds he had gathered, Uncle Wiggily sprinkled some orange perfume on those in the center. They began to smell very sweetly indeed. Next, on the weeds in the outer edge of the bouquet, the bunny gentleman sprinkled some violet talcum pow- der, "Oh, Floppy. "We haven't done yet," " laughed the bunny. "I have some rose soap yet." Then he rubbed some of the rose soap on the stems of the weeds, until the whole bouquet was as sweet as a May morning. "Now take your weed-flowers to the lady mouse," said Uncle Wiggily. Floppy went on to school, and the bunny slipped up and 'looked in a window to see what happened. As how nice that is!" grunted 4, loa tn AI Arai dW AAI de OSHAWA, ONTARIO; THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1922 Continued from Pidge Ten. trees and rocks and footprints of the wild things of the forest. "Your father is gettin' well," he sald at legnth, "Yes," she answered, had a good holiday, broken leg. much better." "You will be goin' away before long," he continued, "Yes," she answered soberly, and waited. "Things about here ain't goin' to be the same after you're gone," he went on. He was avoiding her eyes and industriously throwing bits of crumbled rock into the canyon. He wore no coat, and the neck of his shirt was open, for the day was warm, Had he caught her sidelong glances even his slow, self-deprecac- ing mind must have read their ad- miration. But he kept his eyes fixed on the green water. "You see," he said, came it was different. I didn't know what I was missin', an' so it didn't matter. Not but what I was dog-sick of it at times, but still T thought it was livin'--thought this was life, and, of course, now I know it ain't. At least, it won't be after you're gone." "That's strange," she said, not in direct answer to his remark, but as a soliloquy on it as she turned it over in her mind. "This life, now, seems empty to you. All my old life seems empty to me, This seems to me the real life, out here in the foot- hills, with the trees, and the moun. tains, and--and our horses, you know." She might have ended the sentence in a way that would have come much closer to him, and been much truer, but conventionality had been bred into her for generations, and she did not find it possible yet {reely to speak the truth, Indeed, 2s she thought of her position here it seemed to her she had become shamelessly uncon- ventional, She thought of her mother, careful, correct--'"Always be correct, my dear'"'--and wondered what she would say could she see her only child on these wild, unchap- eroned rides and in these strange confidences where she was a girl and along "He has eyén with his He is looking ever so "hefore you Floppy marched up to the desk of the lady mouse teacher, carrying his weeds, some of the animal children began to giggle. i "Watch teacher when she smells them," whispered Billie Wagtail. But the lady mouse, after she had put her dainty nose to the weeds, | said: | | "Floppy, this is the most delight- | ful bouquet I have ever smelled! It is wonderful!" Well, you should have seen the other animal children then, as Floppy smiled and went to his seat. I tell you it takes Uncle Wiggily to do things, doesn't it? { Live Shrapnel Shells capable of causing a disastrous explosion were discovered in a pile of coal that was about to be shoveled into the furna- ces of a manufacturing "plant at Long Island City. Detectives have been making an investigation to learn how the shells got mixed in with the coal. Shakespeare was no broker, but he furnished a great many stock quota- | tations. --Prineeton Tiger. tities with which Society aims to pro- 'added to the relish of the situation, | said. ishe asked, in genuine surprise. Dave was a boy, and all the artificial- tect itself had been stripped away. There was a dash of adventure which "It's such a wonderful life," she continued. "One gets fo strong and happy in it." "You'd soon get sick of it," "We don't see nothin', Wel don't learn nothin'. Reenie, I'm] eighteen, an' I bet you could read | an' write better'n me when you was six." 'Did you never go he to school?" She knew his speech was ungrammatical, but thought that due to careless training rather than to no training at all. "Whered' I go to school?" he de- manded, bitterly, "There ain't a school within forty miles. Guess | wouldn't have went if I could," he aded as an afterthought, wishing to be quite honest in the matter. "School didn't seem to cut no fig- ure--until jus' lately." "But you have learned--some?" she comtinued. + = Try Doing Next Week's Washing with Rinso id out fob youssti why iitidseds thousands of women say that not face another wash withotit it. 8 io <i] snsie below will save you hours of back they cous bredking nibbing: First: For each tub of clothes dis- solve a half a package of Rinso into a little cool water until it is like tick gieatn, thin ofis iv two quarts, of boiling' water. If hard, or the clothes extra dirty, use more Rinso. Rinso direct into the tub. There's no Rinso is not a the water is Then, pour into tub--of cool or luke- have been put inn. Do nof pour the Soak the clothes for oné hour, two hours, overnight, or a8 Jong as con- venient. Then loosened dirt, uritil the water runs clear. Hang them out to dry.' from the package rise to remove the of of » - BERT LYTELL In SHERLOCK BROWN The New Martin Theatre, | Thursday, Friday and Saturday. At | | "Some. When 1 was a little kid| my father used to work with me at | times, He learned me to read a Jit-| tle, an' to write my name, an' a lit-| tle more. But things didn't go right between him an' mother, an' to drinkin' more an' more, an' just | makin' hell of it, We used to have a mighty fine herd of steers here, but it's all shot to pieces. We den't! put up hardly no hay, an' in a bad| winter they die like rabbits. When | we sell a bunch the old man'll stay | in town for a month or more, blowin'; the coin and leavin' the dehts go. But I've been fixin' him this year or two, 1 sneak a couple of steers away now an' then, an' with the money 1 keep our grocery bills paid up, an'| have a little to rattle in my. jeans. | My credit's good at any store in| town," and Irene thrilled to tho note of pride in his voice as he said this, | The boy had real quality in him. | "But I'm sick of it all," he contin- ued, "Sick of it, an' 1 wanna rel out." he got | she answered, trying to meet his out- burst as tactfully as possible, *Per- haps you are not, the way we think of it in the city. But I guess there's a good many things you can't learn out of books, and I guess you couid show the city boys a good many | things they don't know, and never| will know," looked her| His dark eyes and demanded faid, "do you] For the first time. he straight in the face. met her 'grey ones, truth. "Irene," he mean that?" "Sure I do," lege courses, she answered. and all that *Col-| kind of| " \ "You think you are not educatda."| thing: they're good stuff, all right, but they make some awful nice boys --real live boys, you know--into some awful dead ones. Either they get thé highbrow, and become bores, or the swelled head, and become cads. Not all, you know, but los of them, And then when they get out they have to start learning the real things of life--things that you have been learning here for ever so long. My father says about the best education is to learn to live within your income, pay your debts, and give the other fellow a chance to do the same. Théy don't all learn that in college. So when they get out they have to go and work for some- body who has learned it, like you have. Then there's the things you do, just like you were born to it, that they couldn't do to save their lives, Why, I've seen you smash six bottles at a stretch, you going fuil gallop, and whooping and shooting 80 we could hardly tell which was which. And ride--you could make more money riding for city people to look at than most of those learned fellows, with letters after their [names like the tail of a kite, will ever see, But I wouldn't Nke you to make it that way. There's more use- | ful things to do." He was comforted by this speech, but he referred to his accompilsh- | ments modestly. "Ridin' an' shoot- in' ain't nothin'," he said. "I'm not so sure," che answered. "Father says the day ig coming when our country will want men who o cai] thelr loved ones. shoot and ride more than want lawyers or professors." "Well, when it does, it can call on me," he said and there was the pride in his voice which comes to a boy who feels that in someé way fie 'can take a man's place in the world. "Them is two things I sure can do." Years later she was to think of her remark and his answer, conse- crated then in clean read blood, They talked of many things that afternoon and when at last the lengthening shadows warned them it was time to 'be on the way they rode long distances in silence, Both felt a sense which neither ventured to express, that they had travelled very close in the world of their hopes and sorrows and desires. Perhaps, as they rode along the foothill trail, they were still journeying tegethor down the long, strange trails of the future; dim, visionary, exquisite trails; rough, hard, cruel trails hid- den in the merciful mirage of their young hopefulness. TO BE CONTINUED it will CHURCH OF STAR ISLAND, Star Island off the New Hamp- shire coast bears on its rocky sum- mit a little grey stone church. 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