El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-14
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
"Uncle Wiggily and the Deep Snow"
By HOWARD B. GARIs.

sGET YELL. Welt" exclaimed IN
w Gle Wiggily Longears, the
nice old rabbit gentleman.
as he looked out of the window of his
hollow stump bungalow one morning,
We'll. here comes Dickie Chip-Chip,
the boy sparrow postman, Nurse Jane
Fuzzy Wuzzy and it looks as If ne had
letter for one of us
I suppose it's for you" spoke the
muskrat lady hOusekeeper- I'm not
expecting any letters
And, surely enough, the letter was
for the bunny uncle.
It's from Mrs. Bushytail, the mother
Of Billie and Johnnie Busytail, the
SQUIRRELS said Uncle Wiggily, as he
read the letter, which was written on
a cabbage leaf, so he could eat il when
he had finished reading it. I must
so night ever there" he went on
I hope nothing has happened" said
Nurse Jane. sort Of anxious like.
"Oh, no, nothing much" said Uncle
Wiggily But Billie and Johnnie are
both a little i'll from having caught
cold, and they are staying home from
school. They are so Lonesome from
having TO stay in their house under the
big stump that they don't know what
10 do. So their mother writes TO ask
II I won't come over 10 amuse them"
And are you going?' asked Nurse
Jane
-Of eourselv. cried Uncle Wiggily. in
his most jolly voice III go right
over"
Uncle wiggiIy put on his tall silk
hat, his fur coat (for the weather was
cold, and, taking his red, blue and
white striped rheumatism crutch, that
Nurse Jane had gnawed for him out OF
q cOrnstalk, away hoped the bunny
uncle on his way to see the little SPUR
rel boys
And you can just guess how glad
Billie and Johnnie were to see Uncle
he had
played all the games they knew, and
they were getting rather cross and
peeFish, so that their mother did not
know what to do
But now that you are here, Uncle
Wiggily." said Mrs. Bushytafl. I know
you can amuse the boys So III go lie
down, as have a headache"
Go by all means" spoke Uncle Wig
Then ne and the squirrel boys played
quiet games, for when 1t came to play
ing Uncle Wiggily was almost like a
boy rabbit himself.
They played Squirrel in the Corner"
Lose the Hole in the Doughnut" and
a funny game called Put your hat on
your left hind paw, but don't fall down
the stairs"
"Oh, look at the snow suddenly
called Billie. It's coming down FAST"
And so il was. the big, white flakes
sitting all over, here and there as they
dropped from the clouds.
Let's go out and play in the snOwl"
said Johnnie.
"Oh, no." Uncle Wiggily answered
You're not over your colds yet. Wen
stay in the house and watch the flakes
But I hope the snow doesn't get too
deep"
''Why?" asked Johnnie.
Because with my short legs, il is
hard for me to get through deep snow
said the rabbit gentleman. Il sink
away down in and can't walk or hop
But perhaps ii will not snow long,
It did, though Il showed all day
and was showing in the afternoon
Uncle Wiggily stayed to dinner at the
squirrels house and in the afternoon
Mr.. LOngears said:
We'll, I'd better start for my bunga-
low now. 1t will take me some time to
get there, through the snow, and I
don't want to make Nurse Jane worry.
which surely will happen If I am not
home by dark"
1t was still showing hard when Uncle
Wiggily put on his tall silk hat and
fur coat to go home. he stepped out of
the Busytail house, and, all at once,
the rabbit gentleman sank away down
in the white flakes, almost up to his
watch chain.
oh deari This will never do he
exclaimed. I can't walk in this deep
snow"
Try some other place" said Mrs.
BushytaiL
Uncle Wiggily stepped on the other