El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-06-02
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
Mary Helps Uncle Wiggily."
By HOWARD B. GARIS.

CIV JILL where are you going
w this morning., Mr.. Long
ears?" asked nurse Jane
Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady house
keeper Of the rabbit gentleman as he
came out on the front porch of his hoI-
low stump bungalow in crowland. and
looked up toward the next-house in the
tslls pine tree, where lived Jimmie and
MARY sSaw-Caw, the crow children.
w here am I gOing2" repeated Uncle
NlssIly- why, l am going TO school,
nurse Jane"
To SCHOOL," cried Miss Fuzzy Vuzzv.
as she put some molasses on the DUST
pan, so the fuzz from the carpets would
not DlOW OH as she swept them. Why
the idea! Going to school at your age:
unless, indeed, 1t is dancing school" she
went on switching her tail to and fro.
NO, It is too warm TO dance these
days unless one does the ice cream
cone slide or the icicle hesitation. -
spoke UnCle WiggiIy- But 1 am going
70 school with Mary Caw-Caw prom
1sed the little crow girl I would visit
her class It seems the lady mouse
teacher wants TO see me, because I
gave Mary some June roses to take to
school the other day
"Oh, yes, I heard about that" nurse
Jane said, and I also heard how the
bad tall-pulhng chimpanzee monkey
smeued OF the wrong end of the bouuet
and got thorn in his nose. But If YOU
are going 10 school with Mary, YOU had
better come in and let me fix your tie"
50 the muskrat lady made the rabbit
Sentleman's tie nice and smooth. and
then ne looked dressed up enough te
pay visit to the hollow stump school
are you all ready, Uncle Wiggily?"
called Mary, as she flew down out Of
ner nest-house, with a new pink blue
yellow, red and golden coIored ribbon
tied around her tail feathers. For she
too, wanted TO look pretty as she took
Uncle Wiggily as her company to
school
IAN ready" replied the rabbit gen
ueman-
I'm going to hop along with YOU"
said Jimmie Caw-Caw. the funny crow
boy
But please don't take the glasses out
OF my spectacles, as you once did. so
can't see when fuzzy fox comes after
mel" laughed Uncle WiggiIy. as he
playfully shook his red, white and blue
striped rheumatism crutCh at the crow
boy
NO, I won't 40 that promised Jim
ME. So he and his sister and the rab-
bit gentleman walked and hoped along
together through the woods until Jim
mie heard Bully and Bawly No-Tail, the
frog chaps, calling to him to come and
have a game Of ball
Excuse me, III just fly on ahead"
said the crow boy iii see you at
school, Uncle Wigguy."
All right" answered the rabbit gen
tleman, and then he and Mary hoped
along together. They were thinking
what nice time they would have. and
Uncle Wiggily was planning TO ask the
animal school children some funny
questions, such as how many raisins |
there are in a cOcoanut cake or how
far i is from one end Of a IolIypop
stick to the other, and so on
Then, all at once. the old gentleman
rabbit stumbled over a stone and sat
down suddenly on the ground in the
woods.
oh. dearr cried Mary, in alarm.
-Are you hurt?'
Not in the least" Uncle Wiggily an
swered, with a laugh that made his ears
shake. I guess I am getting as IN
balanced as Aunt Flippity- Flop he
went on, as he arose, leaning on his
rheumatism crutch- And then he saw
a big, long, torn rip in the front of
his trouser leg, and he cried out;
oh dear, Mary, look at that I can't I
go TO school with torn trousers"
'Oh, no one will notice it." said Mary I
You can hold your crutch in front Of /
the tear"
mo. need my crutch to lean on, as
my rheumatism hurts me today" said /
the rabbit gentleman Besides, I would /
feel very unhappy to go before your 1
teacher and all your friends with a