El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-10-02
TNCLE wIGGILY, are you go
ing 20 do anything special
this morning." asked Nurse

go -NCLE WIGGILY, are you go
ing 20 do anything special
this morning." asked Nurse
Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy. the muskrat lady
housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit
gentleman sitting out on the front
stoOp Of his hollow stump bungalow
one day
Anything speciaI2 Why, no, I think
not slowly answered the rabbit gen
ucman-
Then, would YOU mind going to the
store for me and getting me q rolling
pin2' Went on the muskrat lady
a rolling pin2" Uncle Wiggily eX-
claimed DO you want a pin with q
head on il, one that can roll over, and
turn somersaults and peppersaults and
do all tricks like that?'
-Oh, no, nor laughed Nurse Jane
What funny rabbit you are getting
TO be- 7 want a rolling uin to roll out
pie crust with, or crust for Jam tarts.
a rolling pin is a round piece of wood,
with handles on each end You roll II
over and over, and il makes the pie
crust smooth"
oh. I seel" spoke Uncle WiggiIy
yes, guess I was funny, thinking a
rolling pin could turn sOmersaults- III
go right off 10 the store for YOU and
away he started up toward the Orange
Mountains, where the lemonade trees
grow There Uncle Wiggily found
store that sold wooden rolling pins
Here is a very nice one" said the
Jack-in-tne-pulpit gentleman who kept
the store. but he careful it doesn't roll
on your tail, Uncle Wiggily-"
Hai Ha" laughed the rabbit gentle
man 1t would have hard work rolling
on my tail It's so short can't see il
without getting in front Of looking
glass"
So the rabbit gentleman started for
home, with Nurse James wooden rolling
pin. He had not gone very far through
the woods. before all of a SUDDEN. out
from behind stump, jumped the bad
old fox
All har' cried the fox. This is the
time I have caught YOU, Mr. Longears-
] have been waiting for YOU for some
time. Now you come with met
on. please let me soE begged Uncle
WiEgily-
this timei Here. stop that" he
cried. as he saw Uncle Wiggily gather
ing his legs under him to jump away.
stop THAR
Uncle Wiggily dropped the rolling
pin, and 1t rolled on the big tail Of
OUCH Oh WOW. Oh. how that hurts.
Why did you do it," cried the fox.
Didn't you say for me to drop
thatg'" Uncle WiggiIy asked 7
thought you meant for me TO drop the
rolling pin, and Of course, TO please
you. I did"
Il didn't say DROP thatr 7 said
STOP that" spoke the fox, softly rub
bling his hurt tail
"Oh. excuse me 1t sounded just like
DROP that and Of course I did"
said Uncle Wiggily, slyly like, and
laughing
Huh, You're too smart for mer'
grumbled the fox. and then his tail
hurt him so, where the rolling pin had
fallen on it, that he had to 90 to the
drug store to get some paregoric TO
put On So he didn't take Uncle Wig
gily away that time.
Well II seems that rolling pins are
good for something else besides flat
reuing out piecrusr." thought the rab-
bit gentleman, as he went on toward
his hollow stump bungalow once more.
This pin made the fox feel pretty flat
guess"
Uncle Wiggily had not gone very far
before il began to rain Down came the
big drops. and the rabbit gentleman
had no umbrella
But no matter" Uncle Wiggily said
"I viii just stay under this big toad
stool until the rain stops"
Under the toadstOol he crawled, and
IS the tOadstool was shaped just like
an umbrella-in fact animal people use
them for that-why Uncle WiggiIy
didn't get a bit wet