El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-18
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
Uncle Wiggily and Mr.. Pop-GOes."
By HOWARD 3. GARIS.
nT UNCLE WIGGILY," said AIRS.
Littletail. the rabbit lady one

SLT UNCLE WIGGILN," said AIRS
LittIetail, the rabbit lady. one
morning. as she came in the
dining room where AR Longears was
reading the cabbage leaf paper after
breakfast. Uncle Wiggily. don't like
you TO go out in such a storm as this
but I do need some things from the
store and / have no one TO send
.sWhy. III be only too glad to go,
cried the bunny uncle 1t isn't snow
ing very hard and he looked out
through the window Of the under
ground house, which window was up a
little way above ground TO make the
burrOw light What do you want
Mrs. IittIetaIe' he asked.
@Oh. I want a loaf Of bread and some
sugar said the bunny mother OF
Sammie and Susie Littletail-
And you shall certainly have what
YOU want cried Uncle WigEily. as
he got ready TO go the store soon he
was on his way, wearing his fur coat
and hopping along on his cornstaik
rheumatism crutch. while his pink nose
was twinkiinC in the frosty air ike a
red lantern on the back Of an auto
a loaf OF homemade bread and
three and a half pounds of graduated
sugar said Uncle Wiggily TO the
monkey-doodle gentleman who kept
the grocery store And the best that
Won have it's for Mrs Iittletail.
You shall certainly have the bestr
cried the monkey doodle gentleman,
with a Jolly laugh And while he was
wrapping up the things for Uncle
Wiggily to carry home, all at once
there sounded in the store a loud:
N.Y. What's THAR asked Uncle
WiZgily- 81 heard a bank like gun
Are there any hunter men, with their
dogs about II there? are 1 must be
careful
no, that wasn't gun said the
mOnkey-doodle gentleman That was
only one of the toy balloons in my
window. I had some left over from
last year, SO I blew them up and put
them in my window to make II look
pretty Now and then one of them
bursts" And just then. surely enough
-'PopI Bang went another toy bal
loon, shriveling all up
Uncle Wiggily looked in the front
window Of the store and say some
blOwn-up balloons that had not burst.
III take two of those" he said TO
the monkey doodle gentleman Sam
mic and Susie Littletal viii like to
play with them"
Better take two or three" said the
monkey doodle gentleman I'll let
you have them cheap. as they are old
balloons. and they Will burst easily
SO he let the air out Of four balloons
and gave them to Uncle Wiggily to
take home TO the bunny children
The rabbit gentleman started off
through the snowstorm toward the un-
derground house, but he had not gone
very far before. just as he was coming
out from behind big stump. he heard
voices talking
Now, I'll tell YOU how we can get
those rabbits" Uncle Wiggiiy heard
one voice say. "Tll crawl down in the
burrow, and as soon as they see me
they'll be scared and run Out-Uncle
Wiggiiy- Mrs. Littletail the two chill
5ren, Nurse Jane Fuzzy-W uzzy and all Z
Then you can grab them, Mr.. Bigtail!
"Ah, ha. thought Uncle Wiggily !
Mr.. Bigtail, I ought TO know that Z
name It's the fox, and he and some +
One else seem TO be after US rabbits +
But I thought the fox promised to be !
good and let me alone"
Uncle Wiggily peeked cautiously
round the stump. taking care TO make +
no noise, and there he saw fox and I.
another animal talking. And the rab- .
sox who had promised TO be good but 4
mother one of the same name. who I
Vas bad
"Tes I'll 20 down the hole and drive
vt the rabbits and you can grab 4.
hem" said the queer animal :
That's good" grOwled the fox. "and
whom have I the honor of speak
ng2 That was his way os asking
he name Of the other animal. you see
on, I'm called Mr.. Pop-Goes." said
he other.
-1ir Pop-Goes, What a queer name
ala the fox. and all the while Uncle