El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-27
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
"Uncle Wiggily and the Leaves.
By HOWARD, B. GARIS.

UNCLE WIGGILY LONGEARS. the
rabbit gentleman, stood out in
- front Of his hollow stump bun6a-
low in the woods and looked carefully
around. Then ne glanced up at the
bue sky.
what is the natter asked Nurse
Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy. the musl1r2t lady
bungalow keeper. Are you loohlus ioI
some one?'
wei, no. not exactly, said the bunny
uncle slowly. 81 was just thinking
that perhaps I had better begin to 90
some spring cleaning around my pun
galow."
Spring cleaning. DO you mean i'm
side or ontside2' asked the mushta,
lady. as she carefully wiped bit OF
flour off the end of her nose with her
tail for she had been baking "a cdhe'
"Oh. I mean outside, of course re-
marked Uncle NiEEily. II il ItaVt 80
to look after the bungalow, lhslue'
while 1 clean up outside. You see
there are so many last year $ ulI.'
leaves about here in the WOODS MA
if they were TO catch fire our ouhsa-
low might burn
Mercy! cried Nurse Jane,
wouldn't want that TO happen. ON. my
NO, indeed" Uncle Wiggily salu-
once was enough. The last time we
had a fire you and / had 20 podIu
around with our friends sun IL vas
not so bad as it might nave Deen, toi
met Mother Goose. and did some Ia
vors for her and her friends.
What were you thinking OF DONG
to the leaves?" asked Nure Jane. Gu
rious like and inquisitive.
why, 1 thought I'd rake them up
in a pile and make a soft place, SO ii
Sammie and Susie Littletail the raoolt
children. came alone on their way nome
from school, they could jump on ne
leaves as they sometimes do IN the
hay"
rake up the leaves and Ill WASH the
dishes"
So Uncle Wiggily began. For rake
he used dried branch from tree.
1t had many little ends to It, almost
like the teeth Of a rake, that branch
I wonder il a rake ever gets the
tOothache2" thought Uncle Wiggily, as
he pulled and pOl1ed the leaves INTO
piles. IF it does it must hurt very
much because there are so many teeth
But the bunny uncle did not nave
real rake. only a tree branch, which he
used as one and that had no teeth 10
ache. I'm glad to say.
TT viii be good 10 get the layers
Of dead, dried leaves off the ground.
said Uncle Wiggily. for soon the Apr.
showers viii bring the May flowers.
and they find il easler 10 spring up
if there is nc blanket OF leaves owe
them TO hold Them down.
The bunny uncle soon had many piles
Of soft, dried leaves and in a little
while came Sammie and Susie Little
tail, the rabbit children. and into the
leaves they jumped off a stump. bounc
ing w and down like rubber balls
Pretty soon Uncle Wiggily heard
voice saying:
"Oh, dear isn't it too bad2 Yes, its
even three. four, five, six, seven bad,
That's what it is"
"Hai Some one in trouble" said
Uncle Wiggily. dropping his tree
branch rake and running back TO the
pile OF leaves. I suppose Sammie or
Susie has fallen down and bumped one
Of their noses. / must help them up"
But when Uncle Wiggily got there
the cupboard was bare-Oh, no, excuse
me. II you please. That's in another
story I mean the bunny uncle reached
the pile Of leaves where Sammie and
Susie had been playing; neither one OF
the rabbit children was in sight.
oh. N.Y. cried Uncle Wiggily.
They must be all covered up with
leavesi I'll have to dig them out, 40
wonder it's two, six, seven bad"
With his paws he began digging at
the piles Of leaves, scattering them all