El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-10
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
aUncle WiggiIy and the Broken Window"
By HOWARD 3. GARIS.

LLVV THERE to now, Uncle Wig
w gily?" asked Nurse Jane
Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat
lady housekeeper, as she saw the nice
old gentleman rabbit going out Of his
hollow stamp bungalow one morning.
'Oh. just for g walk" he answered.
1T is nice out, though a bit cool, and
me good"
And I suppose you hope you viii
have an adventure, do you not" asked
the muskrat lady.
I certainly do" answered Uncle Wig
glly, smiling so that his Whiskers went
up and down like jumping-jack climb
ing the wallpaper. An adventure a
day will keep bad luck away"
Then, whistling gaily, and swinging
his red, white and blue striped barber
pole rheumatism crutch, for he was not
hmping much that day, Uncle Wiggily
Started off
He had not gone very far, as they say
IN story books, before he came TO a
place in the snow where he saw the
marks OF tiny feet.
7 ought to know who made those
marks, said Uncle Wiggily. They are
not the queer marks I make. or that
Sammie Littetail, the rabbit boy,
makes, either. They are too small to
be the marks Of Jimmie WibblewObble,
the boy duck. Billie Wagtail, the goat
makes a sort OF double mark with his
hoofs- But these are tiny footprints
IN the snow. and know Jollie and jill
lie Longtail, the mice children, made
them They must have been out here
playing.
Well haven't seen Jollie and JiIlie
for quite a while,' went on the rabbit
gentleman. nor Squeakie-Eekfe. the
cousin mouse, either, so guess III inst
drop around to their mouse-hole house
and see how they are. Mrs. LongtaiI
may give me dish Of cheese pudding
Uncle Wiggily soon found himself in
front Of the hole in a hollow tree where
the mouse family lived. The bunny IN
Gle knocked on the side Of the bark
door. and waited. Pretty soon he heard
a crying noise
Wei, hope nothing has happened
he said TO himself. But that crying
sounds like trouble. hope neither Jol-
been caught in a trap must go in and
see what is the matter"
Without waiting for any Of the mouse
children TO open the door Of the hole
house, Uncle Wiggily went in There
he saw Jollie and Jillie with their paws
around the neck Of Squeakie-EeIie, who
was crying so hard that her tail wob-
bled.
why, Why, What's ali this about?"
asked Uncle Wiggily- ~What does this
mean, children
we don't know" answered Jollie
''Squeakie Eekie won't tell US why
she is crying" added lille she just
came in a while ago from having been
out playing with my doll carriage. and
she began to cry and she hasn't stopped
yet"
.'Oh. deari Boo-hooi Hoo-booi" sobbed
the little cousin mouse. Il am so mis-
erablei'
There. there, nOwr' said Uncle Wig
gily kindly. as he took her up on his
lap you just tell your old bunny IN
Gle all about if. Squeakie."
II don't want Jillie or Jollie to
hear it, said Squeakie-Eekie
wei, they can go over in the corner
and you can whisper it to me-" Uncle
WiEgily said.
So the little cousin mouse whispered
this in the big ear Of the rabbit gen
tleman:
7 was out playing with JiIlie's doll
carriag e-and fit slipped away from
me down hill and ran away and went in
a big drift Of snow, and I can't find it.
And I'm afraid 10 tell Jillie. for she
liked her doll carriage very much.
That's why I'm crying"
rs your doll lost. too" Uncle Wig
giIy wanted to know.
-She fell out the carriage and I
picked her up" spoke the little cousin
mouse. But, oh, dear, What shall I
Leave It to NEIL fix it." Uncle