El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-10-06
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
UNCLE wIGGLY AND THE WOODEN ALLIGATOR
By HOWARD B. GAKIS

sum You might make them get your
! illness You must stay 10y yourself for
| while know it is hard. but 1t is
susie turned her face TO the wall. and
! some tears rolled out on her pillow,
| down 10 the floor behind the bed.
/ sylashing on the wallpaper. But that
! did not matter.
! Vow, Susie" said her mother. when
/ the doctor had gone Il know You are
{ going TO be good and not fret"
( III try said the little bunny girl.
! But If I can't have any of my little
girl animal friends 10 see me. can l
play with my circus that ! got for
: Christmas / like that when I have to
stay in the house
oh. 1 guess you may have that"
said Mrs Llttletail- III get IL out Of
the closet for you" for Susie's Christ
I the summer.
SO the circus was brought out There
was a wooden elephant, and wooden
horses, and there was a clown. dom
. key that would make wax doll laugh.
. and ladders and chairs. a ring master
with fine red coat. and all sorts OF
things that are in real circuses-only
those susie had Were made Of wood
The little girl put them on her bed
and began to play with the wooden ami
mails, making them all sorts OF funny
tricks. for they could move like jointed
dolls
An OF a sudden the little rabbit girl
said:
'Oh. deart"
What's the natter" asked Mrs Lit
tletail hurrying into the room Have
you a PAIN
NO, but my wooden circus alligator
is gone" said the little rabbit girl. I
liked him best Of all my animals ex-
cept my horse. and now he's gone /
could do so many funny tricks with
my wooden alligator Please get him
for me. mother"
other circus animals had been put. but
the wooden alligator she could not
Pm s.fraid I cant find it for you.
Susie" said the rabbit lady Haven't
you enough Of your other toys. my
dear2"
"Oh, no I haven't. mother" spoke
Susie. fretful like, and so Mrs. Little
tail. knowing the little rabbit girl was
not exactly herself. but fretful be-
cause Of illness. made another search
for the wooden circus alligator
But il could not be found. though the
rabbit papa and mamma hunted up
stairs and downstairs and in the cellar
even.
Susie" said her mother.
I can't" said Susie. and then she
began 10 cry Just then Uncle Wiggily
IsOngears the rabbit gentleman. was
passing the "a bbit house
What's the natter" he asked. as
he heard the crying OF Susie Mrs
Littletail told him how Susie was ILL., I
and wanted the alligator
I'll go right up TO see her. said the
bunny man I'm not afraid Of catch B
ing anything 1 have the rheuma tism.
and there isn't anything worse I'm
not afraid III see what can do about
Susie's alligator
So Uncle Wiggilv went up. Susie I
was frettinC more than ever about the E
alligator. which she wanted TO have (
climb one Of her wooden circus ladders D.
so he could get on the back OF her /
wooden horse
Now ri tell you what I'll do. SUSIE Z
said Uncle Wiggily, III go out hunt I
ing for the gator. I'll ask my old
friend, the skillery scalery alligator. If 4
he knows where your wooden one is
That will be fine" laughed Susie, .
not crying so hard now. Maybe my
wooden alligator came TO life and went ,
to visit your alligator. who used TO be 4
bad. but who is now so kind 10 you. E
Do please go. Uncle WiEGily2'
SO the bunny gentleman went. He .
found the skillery scallery alligator
bout to crawl into a hollow log for .
q long winters sleep
Susie's wooden alligator said the
skillery scalery chap Why no.
haven't seen him.
II must get one said Uncle Wig
zily- IF I don't. Susie viii make her.
self more i'll by fretting- 1 don't know
what TO do
Hal I think 7 know exclaimed the
skillery scalery gator Come out here
Z
,ame a little boy alligator. just about
he size Of Susie's lost wooden one
You take Presto to Susie," said the
pig gator 7 call him Presto because
he's so slow He moves almost as slowly
as a wooden chap Now. Presto. I
want you TO pretend that YOU are 2
wooden circus animal for Susie until
she gets we'll" he said Then Uncle /
Wiggily will bring you back TO go to
sleep with me-
All right said Presto. And when
Uncle Wiggily handed him to Susie
Presto made himself as still as wood.
and Susie could bend his head and tail
and legs any way she wanted to. and
she said:
"Oh. YOU dear. Uncle WigEily, II
knew you'd find my wooden alligator
Tor me, On. now I am happy"
And Susie played with the real ALI
gator. thinking all the while he was
wooden And wasn't Presto good TO do
hat for the little rabbit grip He even
ct himself be stood on his tail
Soon Susie was well again and could
play out Of doors. So her circus animals
we're put away. Uncle WigGily took
Presto back 10 his papa in the log and
everybody was happy
And II the Swiss cheese doesn't try
10 make himself look like a lace cur
ain. and scare the parlOr carpet. III
ell you next about Uncle Wiggily and
he canary bird--CODyright 1916. by
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.