El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-16

EL"T1ERE goes another one and II s
the last" cried Uncle Wiggily
- Longears. the rabbit gentle
man, as he was dressing in his hollow
stump bungalow one day to 90 down
town.
Another what-the last Of what?"
asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the
muskrat lady housekeeper, for she
heard. out in the hall, what Uncle Wig
ssThe last button on my coat" he
answered. They have all fallen off,
one afser another And If 1 can't but
ton my coat around me can't o out
and take a walk"
That's too bad-T Nurse Jane said
"Just hand me your coat, Wiggy. and
the buttons, and I'll soon sew them on
for you
passing out his coat
Nurse Jane took it with the buttons,
downstairs, where her work basket
was, and started to do the sewing with
needle and thread But before she mad
time TO put on even one button there
came a knock at the door and Mrs
Bushytail. the squirrel lady called:
"Oh, Nurse Jane. can't YOU come
over TO my house just a minute2 I'm
making a new kind Of hickory nut cake
and / can't seem to get it just right.
Perhaps you can help me-
ITO be sure I will" the muskrat lady
said. "Oh, Wiggy" she called up TO
the rabbit gentleman. I'm going out
for Just a minute. But I'll be right
back and sew on your buttons"
"AI right" answered the bunny
uncle. Don't hurry I can wait"
Now you know how it is when two
animal ladies get talking together
about cake and pies and buildings and
how to make the rubber plant grow
taller by stretching it. and all that
sort OF thing
Well it was that way with Nurse
Jane and Mrs. Bushytail. They talked
and talked and Miss Fuzzy WuzZy for
got all about Uncle Wiggily's buttons.
Back in the hollow stump bungalow
Mr.. LOugears came down downstairs.
He saw his coat near Nurse James
work basket, but the muskrat lady her
self was not there
Il see how it is spoke Uncle Wig
gily. looking overtOward the Bushytah
squirrel house I guess I'd better sew
the buttons on my coat myself I can
do il while I'm waiting for Nurse Jane
TO come back, and then 1 can go for
my walk sooner I'll sew on my own
buttons ana surprise my musrrst lady
housekeeper-
Uncle Wiggily threaded a needle. He
took a long thread so he would not
have to poke IL through the eye Of the
needle so often, as It was not easy for
him he did not take Nurse lanes
thimble 10 push the needle through the
cloth with Instead hs used a five cent
ITS easier for me-" said Uncle wig
gily.
In the work basket were a number
OF buttons and Uncle Wiggily picked
them out and began sewing them on his
coat
Through the holes in the buttons the
rabbit gentleman would push the nee
die, pulling the thread along with it.
Sometimes Une1e Wiggily would prick
his paw. and I1en he would jump, and
that would make him prick his nose
with the point of the needle
And sometimes the thread would get
all tangled up, because il was so long,
and IL would get mixed up with Uncle
Wiggily's Whiskers and he would have
to stop and straighten things out
Tt is not so easy to sew on buttons
as one would think said the rabbit
gentleman. But still one can DO il
If one has patience and needles and
thread and a five-cent pieee-"
So he went on pushing the needles
through the holes in the buttons and
then through the cloth Of his coat, and
all the while he was laughing to him
self to think how surprised Nurse
Jane would be when she came back
and found all the buttons sewed on
It's a joke On Nurse Jane to think
Of her STAYING over at Mrs Bushytairs
house, talking 50 fast that she for
gets all about ny buttOnsi" and Uncle
WlSSllE laukucus ana WASH Z the least
unpleasant about il. the way some rab-
bit gentlemen would have been
Finally Uncle Wiggily had sewsd the
last button on and he was glad OF il,
he had pricked his paws more times
than he cared to count.
Now to put on my coat and go for
a nice walk" he said And Just in
time. too. for here comes Nurse Jane"
Uncle Wiggily put on his coat but
when he tried to button it he found
some thing was the matter. The but
tons would not go through the button
holes at all No matter how hard
Uncle Wiggily pushed he couldn't push
the buttons through the holes
oh, excuse me-" exclaimed Nurse
Jane, hurrying in just then. 4 did not
mean to stay so long III sew the but
tons on for you right away"
Don't worry said Uncle Wigsily
kindly I sewed the buttons on myself