Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-22
JNCLE WIGGILY AND THE LITTLE
CHICKENS.
(By Howard r. Garis.D
Paget Newspaper Service.


(By Howard r. Garis,)
I Paget Newspaper Service.
! Copyright by Evening News Publish
ling Company of Newark, N j., 1880
well, this is going to be very busy
week for us, Uncle Wiggily,' spoke
Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy. the muskrat
LADY, who kept house for Mr.. Longears
as she gave the lemonade pitcher a
drink of milk "A very busy week"
"Why is that?" asked the old rabbit
gentleman, as he loked over the top Of
his paper at the breakfast table. We
are not going to any dance this week,
| are we?"
NO, indeed" laughed the muskrat
lady Il guess you can't think of any
thing but dancing, Uncle Wiggily. But
this is Easter week. you know, and
! there is my party and -
I That's right And the Easter eggs
am to color for my little animal
friends and hide mean, hide the
eggs, not my friends Uncle Wiggily
said. with twinkle of his ears.
Excuse me for interrupting YOU,
Nurse Jane the rabbit gentleman
went on, politely, but / just couldn't
help it."
That's all right" kindly said Miss
Fuzzy Wuzzy. Il know just how ex-
cited you are
Its just like learning new dance,
the egg smash or the omelet fry pro-
ceetied the rabbit gentleman.
ooh, how funny you are said Nurse
Jane, as she tied pink hair ribbon on
the end of her long tail so she would
look nice when she was busting the
moving picture piano.
well, as we are going to have a
busy week. | may as well get ready
for it," Uncle Wiggily went on. II
must color those eggs Mrs. Chick, the
hen lady, gave me. I want to color
some red and some blue and some
green, and then I'll get ready to hide
them for the animal children so they
may hunt for them Easter Sunday
morning
"And don't forget to make some skill
igimink colored eggs, for Sammie Lit.
tletail, the rabbit boy" begged Nurse
Jane. do you remember how he once
fell into the Easter egg dye?"
81 should say l do" chuckled Uncle
as circus! Poor Sammie." and the
rabbit gentleman laughed until his
ears tied themselves in hard knot
and then he had to stand on his head
to untangle them.
"And if you have any time left af-
ter coloring eggs" the muskrat lady
said, Il wish you would go to the store
for me Uncle Wiggily.''
"Of course | will CO." he answered,
politely. What do you want? I'll 90 be-
fore l begin to color the eggs for |
will probably splash myself all over
red, blue and green like rainbow
necktie, and I won't want to go out
looking that way. I'll go to the store
first, Nurse Jane.
Thank YOU the muskrat lady said
81 shall want some sugar and raisins
and nuts and citron and cocoanut and
oranges and bananas and pineapples
and -
My what lot of good things!'
cried Uncle Wiggi1y, making his nose
twinkle like red toy balloon at
circus
Yes, l want plenty of good things
at my Easter party" Nurse Jane said.
Uncle Wiggily went out in the kitch. !
en- where he had left the hen and duck
0SSS MIS-. CulCh dlu WI VAOOAS-
wobble had given him for Easter.
'1ll color them when l get back
from the store" the rabbit gentleman |
thought Then hopping along on his
red, white and blue striped rheumatism
barber pole crutch that Nurse Jane had
gnawed for him out of cornstalk, the
rabbit gentleman went to the store to
get the good things for the Easter
party, which Nurse Jane gave every
year for the animal children
Perhaps l may have an adventure
in the woods thought Uncle Wiggily,
as he hoped along. IF do / hope it
will be a nice one and not an unpleas-
ant one with the bad egg-dog, the tall
pulling chimpanzee monkey or the skill
lery-scalery alligator
But Uncle Wiggily had no adventure
In the woods One was waiting for him
at his hollow stump bungalow, how
ever, but he did not know that until
later.
The rabbit gentleman safely reached
the store, and bought the pineapples,
the sugar, the oranges, the cocoanut
and all the other good things that
Nurse Jane had asked him to. With
them in basket on his paw, the rab'
bit gentleman hoped on back through