El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-01

~ he bad ola loA was Al AfI uei
with her little foxes eight, nine
Il ten. They were hungry. and
one said: Mother, do go out and bring
i'm "A rabbit stew
81 Will my dear" answered the
mother fox. "A nice rabbit stew would
20 very nicely this cold day. III 80
out and see if / can catch that Uncle
WiCgily Longears the rabbit, who has
so often gotten away from me- III go
out and catch him for you"
"Oh goodie" cried the little foxes
clapping their tails against the stone
sides Of the den house where they lived.
"Goodle, GOOdie-'
OF course il Uncle Wiggily, the nice
rabbit gentleman, had heard that he
would not have said 'Goodie. He
would have said, "Baddie" / guess
For you know IL is no fun to be made
into rabbit stew. and though. OF
course little foxes must eat, l sup
pose. the same as other animal boys
and girls stiil I'd rather they wouldn't
get Uncle WigEiiy- For if they did
would not be able to write any more
stories about him. And that would
be too bad for mo.
SO we must see il there is not some
way in which we can fool the bad old
fox
out of her den went the mother fox,
and she looked up and down as she
stood I'm the front door, and she shifted
the air with her sharp nose. For you
know animals smell with their nose.
which tells them almost as much as
our eyes tell US. And the mother fox
was trying TO see il she could smell
that rabbit stew
Il think Uncle Wiggily win be com
Ing along through the woods soon
said the fox TO herself. "And ] must
he very sly 10 catch him. for he is
smart and has gotten away from me
many times. Let me see what 1 can
do 20 play a trick on him"
So the fox mother thought of her
hungry little foxes in the den, and
then she thought and thought of a way
to trap Uncle Wiggily.
"He is staying with that squirrel
family said the fox mamma TO her
self squirrels like nuts. Uncle Wig
cily likes Johnnie and Billie. the squir-
rels, and SO if Uncle Wggily saw u
big nut in the woods he would want
to take il home TO the squirrel boys.
So / must make a trap that looks like
big nut That viii fool the old rab-
bit smart as he is"
SO the fox mother, 90 get rabbit
stew, began to make a trap that looked
like big hickory nut. And being
smart. as all foxes are, she soon had
IL finished. on tho outside the trap
looked just Ike q nut but it was real
ly round box with a door TO it that
slammed shut as soon as anything
got inside. And the door locked itself
and stayed smut. too, so whoever was
inside could not get out
Now I'll put this big trap. which
looks like "A nut. IN the woods. along
the path Uncle Wiggily takes when he
goes walking for his rheumatism"
said the bad old fox who had often
before tried to catch the rabbit gem
tleman. 80 the fox mother pat the
nut trap il the woods and then she
went back 90 her den to wait.
Did YOU bcing us the rabbit stew.
mamma asked the hungry little
foxes.
NO but III have it soon" she said.
Wei. after a while. surely enough
along came Uncle Wiggily Longears.
limping on his red. white and blue
striped barber pole rheumatism crutch
that Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the
muskrat lady housekeeper. had
-nawed for him out Of a cornstaIk ,
Uncle Nigglly saw what he thought
was fine, big hickory nut as large
as himself
"Ah, har' said the rabbit gentleman
Il viii see if ] cannot take that home
10 Johnnie and Billie Bushytail They
viii like IT, Perhaps I can tie a piece
of wild grapevine like rope TO il and
drag it over the snow" for there was
some snow on the ground.
The toX, you see. was smart enough
10 know just how Uncle Wiggily would
act That's how foxes make their liv-
ing. by being smart
Uncle Wiggily went slowly M To
what he thought was the big nut. Then /
he saw q little door in one side.
"Ha, That's odd" he said. per /
haps ! can 50 in there, and, by rolling /