El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-05-11
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
"Uncle Wiggily and the Big Cheese"
By HOWARD B. GARIS.

~. that certainly is good
Nj cheese cake exclaimed IN
- Gle Wiggily Longears, the
rabbit gentleman, TO nurse Jane Fuzzy
Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper.
III have another piece" he went on.
passing his plate.
I'm glad you like it." Miss Fuzzy
WuzZy remarked, as she cut another
bit OF cake But If you want any
more Of IL baked you will have to go
10 the store and get me some cheese"
We'll I certainly will DO that" I'M
Gle Wlggtly exclaimed, FOR 1 90 surely
wiped his Whiskers on his napkin, as
nurse Jane passed him back his plate.
After breakfast the old rabbit gen
ueman started out in his automobile
TO get the cheese so nurse Jane could
bake more cheese cake. I don't know
just how cheese cake is made, but I
like to eat it
think you have to put cheese in, Of
course. and perhaps flour and water,
ana sugar and eggs and nutmeg, and
lemonade. and oranges and cOcOanut
and perhaps lOuypOpS-mind, Pm not
saying for sure, but maybe. Anyhow,
I'm sure about the cheese, and so was
uncle WiggAy, for he started off after
II in his auto.
I'll 20 with YOU" offered Jimmie
'-Au right, come along" invited uncle
Wiggily, but please don't pick any
holes in the German bologna sausage
tires with your sharp bill and let out
all the air"
I'll not do that" promised Jimmie.
"And don't pick up the what-you-
may-call-it, or the whizzicum- Whazzf-
cum OF my automobile and hide it for
FUN" added the rabbit gentleman.
7 won't" said Jimmie, with laugh.
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the auto to get the cheese.
And I'd like the largest one you
have in the store" uncle WiEgily said
10 the grocery COW lady. The very
largest cheese, so nurse Jane can make
plenty Of cake for me"
You shall have il, Mr.. Longears," the
COW lady answered. Then she brought
out a big round cheese, so large and fat
and altogether nice that it was all IN
Gle Wiggily and the COW lady and jim
mic Caw-Caw could do TO lift it into the
auto.
THAT certainly will make a fine lot
OF cheeseCakes," the rabbit gentleman
said, as he climbed up on the seat Of
his machine and tickled the doodle
oodIe-um with some talcum powder to
make it sneeze. And when this had
been done the auto went off as nicely
as you please
But it did not 90 so very far before.
all Of a sudden, Jimmie, the crow boy,
saw SOuneLu4uE DflSuL anu EuAl-lS On
the turning steering wheel
'Hai think III fly off with that and
hide it." he said. He quickly picked the
shiny thing off in his bill but before
the crow boy could fly away with it he
accidentally dropped il in a deep river,
over which the auto was then running
on q bridge.
All at once the auto stopped
.'Oh. dearl Now you have gone and
done it. JimmieT7 said uncle Wiggily in
a sorrowful voice.
Done what2' asked the crow boy.
why, you have picked off the snick-
erum sneckerum that makes the auto
mobile wheels go round and now they
won't go any more until ] get a new
one Oh. deari I'll have to leave the
auto and the cheese here until 7 come
back, and some one may take the
cheese. On. Jimmiei"
I'm sorryr' said the crow boy.
But Of course that did not bring back
the snickerum-sneckerum part Of the
auto
well. there is no help for it." sighed
uncle Wiggily. 7 don't mind leaving
my automobile here, for no one can run