Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-29
NCLE wIGGILY's EASTER DYES.
(By Howard R.. Garis.)
Pauet NaMspaner Service.


Paeet Newspaper Service.
Copyright by Evening News Publish
ing Co, of Newark, N. j., 1850
We'll, Uncle Wiggily,' said Nurse
Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady
housekeeper to the rabbit gentleman,
one morning, well, Uncle Wiggily,
isn't it about time you started?"
"Started?" he asked. Started
what?"
Started making the Easter dyes to
color the Easter eggs for our little ami
NAL friends the muskrat lady an
swered. You know, you have great
many to color, even If some eggs did
hatch out into little chickens and
others into little ducks"
VERY true," Uncle Wiggily an
swered. You are right, Nurse Jane,
as you always are. will begin max
ing my colored Easter egg dyes now,
and tomorrow | will color the eggs.
Then they will be nice and dry, and all
ready to hide in different places, so
Sammie and Susie Littletail, the rab-
bits; Johnnie and Billie Bushytail, the
squirrels, and Bully and Bawly No
Tail, the frog boys, can hunt for them
Easter Sunday morning"
So saying, Uncle Wiggily took off
his tall silk hat, laid aside his red
white and blue striped barber pole
rheumatism crutch, and prepared to
make the Easter colors, or dyes.
The rabbit gentleman had been get
ting ready this long while to color the
eggs for his little animal friends, and
he had the paints, with which to make
the colors, safely put away In mis- hol-
low stump bungalow.
He had some green leaves to make
green dye, some yellow buttercup
flowers to make yellow dye, some red
roses to make red color, some blue
bell blossoms to make a blue dye, and
so on. Uncle Wiggily had many color
ed flowers and leaves with which to
stain the eggs pretti1y that Nurse Jane
boiled hard for him, so they would not
easily break
The rabbit gentleman took num-
Der OF little bottles and filed them full
OF water. Some of the bottles had
held his rheumatism medicine, but
they were empty now.
"The more medicine l take" Uncle
Wiggily said, ''the worse my rheuma-
tism seems to be-
Into one bottle of water he put some
red rose leaves.
"That will make dye to color eggs
red with" said the rabbit gentleman,
as he put in the cork stopper.
Into another bottle he put some blue
bell flowers.
"That will make blue color for some
eggs" he said.
Into third bottle he put some tree
leaves, and they colored the water a
lovely shade OF green.
"That will be for st. Patrick's day
eggs" Uncle Wiggily said, with
smile.
All the different colors he made In
the little bottles, and when they set
In row on the kitchen window sill, IN
! the bright sun, they looked too pretty
and cute for anything, did Uncle Wig
gily's Easter dyes.
"Oh. how lovely!" said one of the
little chickens that had Matched out OF
some eggs left behind the warm stove.
How meet"
aren't they!" chirped another
chickie. II almost wish we had stay
ed in our shells, instead of coming
out. Then we would be colored eggs"
"Oh, had rather be a live chicken
than colored Easter egg" said the
first chicken, who had one blue eye
and one pink.
80 would l." spoke one Of the little
ducklings who were padding and
swimming around in washtub full OF
| water.
Well, Uncle Wiggily was looking at
his bottles of Easter egg dyes, ana
thinking how pretty they were, when,
all of sudden he heard a voice be-
hind him, saying:
"Ah, ha! Now l have you! Now !
am going to give you good pull, and
Nurse Jane isn't here to stop me-
Uncle Wiggily turned around, and
there he saw the bad old tail-pulling
champanzee monkey.
Oh. dear! Are you here?" ex.
claimed the rabbit gentleman.
'Of course I'm heren chartered the
chimpanzee. "And l guess you don't
have to guess more than three times to
know why, either"
"Are you-are you going to pull my
tail?' asked Uncle Wiggily in a faint
voice
you guessed it the first time!"
cried the bad monkey. Get ready
now! I'm going to pull your tail
"oh, please DON'T" begged Uncle
Wiggiiy. His tail was short enough
now, and he was afraid the chimpanzee
might pull it off altogether. Please
don't!' the rabbit pleaded. .
! Nonsense! OF course I shall
cried the chimp, as | call him for
short. sometimes. Here GOMEZ" .
| Wen, he was just going to pull