Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble

Lulu, Alice and Jimmie
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Bedtime Stories
LULU, ALICE AND JIMMIE WIBBLEWOBBLE
by
HOWARD R. GARIS
Author of Sammie and Susie Littletail, Johnnie and Billie Bushytail,
Those Smith Boys, _Dick Hamilton's Fortune_, etc.
Illustrations by Louis Wisa
1912

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THE BEDTIME STORIES SERIES
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SAMMIE AND SUSIE LITTLETAIL 31 Rabbit Stories JOHNNIE
AND BILLIE BUSHYTAIL 31 Squirrel Stories LULU, ALICE AND
JIMMIE WIBBLEWOBBLE 31 Duck Stories JACKIE AND PEETIE
BOW-WOW 31 Dog Stories
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R.F. Fenno & Company
BEDTIME STORIES--Lulu, Alice and Jimmie
The stories herein contained appeared originally in the Evening News,
of Newark, N.J., where (so many children and their parents have been
kind enough to say) they gave pleasure to a number of little folks, and
grown-ups also.
Permission to issue the stories in book form was kindly granted by the
publisher and editor of the News, to whom the author extends his
thanks.

[Illustration]

LULU, ALICE AND JIMMIE WIBBLEWOBBLE

STORY I
LULU WIBBLEWOBBLE STUCK IN THE MUD
Once upon a time, not so very many years ago, there lived three ducks
in a duck pen. And this pen was not far from where Sammie and Susie
Littletail, the rabbit children, had their burrow, and it was close to the
trees where Johnnie and Billie Bushytail, the squirrel brothers, learned
to jump from their nest. Now I am going to tell you some stories about
these ducks, and what they did.
To begin with there was the mamma duck. She was Mrs.
Wibblewobble, a nice, white duck, being a cousin to Mrs.
Quack-Quack, who once rescued Billie and Johnnie Bushytail, and

Jennie Chipmunk from the desert island where they had been
shipwrecked, you remember.
Then there was the papa duck, and, of course, his name was Mr.
Wibblewobble. Also there were the children ducks; Jimmie
Wibblewobble and his two sisters, Lulu and Alice.
Lulu was a duckling who could throw a stone almost as well as could
Jimmie, but Alice was not so fond of doing this. She would rather dress
up, and play keep house, while Lulu wanted to be off having a good
time with her brother. But the three ducklings got along very nicely
together just the same.
What's that? Why were they named Wibblewobble? Well, because, you
see they did wibblewobble from side to side when they walked, and so
they had to be named Wibblewobble, or things wouldn't have come out
right. So there!
Well, the Wibblewobble family lived in a nice, wooden house, called a
pen, near a pond of water, and their house had a door and two windows
to it, so you see they were quite well off. In fact they were very stylish
ducks, and once Jimmie Wibblewobble even rode in an automobile, but
I can't tell you about that now, because you see I am going to relate to
you how Lulu was caught fast in the mud. It happened one day when
Jimmie and his two sisters were swimming about on the pond, just like
three white boats.
"Let's see who can swim the fastest!" suddenly called the little boy
duck. "We'll race over to the other side of the