El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-29
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
@BiIlie Bushytail Goes After Berries"
By HOWARD 3. 5ARIS.

LD LILLE, Billie Bushytail, where
are you?" called Mrs. Bushy-
- tail. the squirrel mother, one
saturday morning when there was no
school for the little animal chaps
Billie, dear. want you to go after
some berries for me-
Billie, who was putting on his fur
mittens and his rubber boots 10 90 oul
and play popcornbal in the snow,
looked at his mother IN a funny sort
OF way and asked
joking me, aren't you cong aIte1
berries in the winter
no, I really mean it," said Mrs.
Bushytail with a smile. 4 want some
strawberries"
But where am z going to get straw
berries when wintry snow covers all
the zround2' asked the little squirrel
boy Strawberries don't grow under
the snow. do theyZ Unless you want
ne 70 20 to some big green house,
where. even in winter. the berries real
y grow like flowers, under the glass
windows"
No want you 10 go to Airs. wib-
bleWObbles the duck LADY, VINO IS the
mother of Lulu. Alice and Jimmie Wib-
blewobble,' explained Mrs Bushytail.
she has some canned strawberries, and
she said I might have some to make
tarts with Be careful Of the can OF
Strawberries, Billie Don't slip ana
break it,"
Z WON'T" promised the little squirrel
chap so it is canned berries I an TO
20 after2'
yes" said his mother In the sum
mer, when the ripe red STRAWBERRIES
grow on the hill Mrs. Wibblewobble
picked them and, after cooking them in
their red juice she put them IN glass
cans where they would keep all winter.
II is some of those berries you are
going after, Billie"
All right" cried the little squirrel
boy. so he finished putting on his fur
boots and his rubber mittens; ooh. ex-
cuse me, II you please, I guess haven't
got over Christmas yeti, I mean he
put on his rubber boots and his fur
nIittens and away he scampered, over
the snOW-covered fields and through
the woods 10 the house Of Mrs Wibble-
Wobble, the duck lady
I have come after strawberries, II
you please, Mrs. WibblewObble," said
Billie, with a polite bow, at the same
time frisking his big fluffy tail up and
down and sideways
Come in" invited the duck lady. "Tu
wrap the can of Strawberries up for
YOU in a napkin, so il won't slip. You
can look at Jimmie's Christmas pres
ents while you're waiting He has a
little toy steamboat like Grandfather
Gcosey Ganders red plush one, only
not 50 large, and it sails in the bath
tub
Jimmie. the boy duck. and Billie, the
steamboat until Mrs Wibblewobble had
the glass jar Of strawberries wrapped
up.
There You are. Billie" she said
"Scamper along now, and be careful not
TO drop the jar. for il viii easily break.
and all the strawberries would spill
ont on the snow"
RI be careful" promised Billie.
On and on he went toward his hollow
tree house. He was anxious to get
back to have game OF snow man tag
with his brother Johnnie.
All Of a sudden, as Billie was scamp
ering along. wondering how many
strawberries there were in the can Mrs
Wibblewobble had given him, some big
animal jumped out from behind a
stump and cried:
Hold on there. little squirrel boy"
Billie stopped. and saw that IL was a
big. bad fox, who had called 10 him.
-Oh. dear," chartered Billie. his teeth
ehiTering- DO you want me2"
No" said the bad fox 4 DO not At
least not now. J may want you later
when I get hungry again, but Just now
I want that old gentleman rabbit, Uncle