El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-06-13

, It pulled the earth together instead
] of scratching it
Uncle Wiggily went along over his
| farm, looking on this side and that for
the tail-pulling chimpanzee-monkey, or
| for the ear-scratching cat but he saw
| neither of them, and he was glad.
| Safely ne reached his bean-patch and
| began 10 hoe the dirt up into little
| hills
We'll. now I think I'll rest a while.
| and 20 TO the five and ten cent store
| FOR Nurse Jane" said Uncle WiggiIy TO
| himself after a bit. There are not
many more bean-hllIs TO make can
| do them when l come back
| Standing the hoe up against the
fence, the rabbit gentleman went on
to the store, where he asked for a
/ spool OF thread.
What color does Nurse Jane WANT
the little mousie girl clerk behind the
counter wanted to know
| What color asked Uncle Wiggily.
sort Of puzzled like. rs there more
than one color thread2''
of course there is" laughed the
mousie girl There is red. blue, green,
purple, pink. black. white. yellow,
scarlet brown, mauve. gray, speckled,
spotted"
stop! stop, please begged Uncle
Nlgglly, putting his paws over his ears.
old not know there was that much
thread in the world. Nurse Jane didn' [
me spool Of each, and she can take
her choice"
So Uncle Wiggily, with forty-1even
spools OF different colOred thread in a
bundle, started back 10 his farm, TO
ilnlsh hOeinE the beans. And when he
got there he saw something that made
him feel sad.
For there. in the bean patch. was
the pad old tail-pulling monkey, srnil-
ing so as TO show his teeth
thought you'd come back" said
the monkey so I waited for you"
You needn't have troubled vour-
like.
oh. don't worry about me. It was
no trouble at all, 1 assure you. I
the monkey.
Are you going to pull my tans"
You have guessed it." said the
monkey. 4 am going TO pull your tail
The last time you got away from me
and ] haven't pulled tail in ever and
ever so long ] must pull a tail now"
Ihen why not your OWN" asked
Uncle Nlggliy- 1t is much longer. and
easier 10 pull than mine"
Don't talk nonsense exclaimed the
monkey chap I never pull my own
tail Get ready now, I'm gong to pull
yours. and he jumped over the bunny
Uncle Naggily thought for a minute.
Then he said.
Before you pull my tail would you
mind letting me hoe the dirt around
some more hills Of my beans2"
Yes. you can do that agreed the
monk, as I call him for short. But
be quick about it," ne sat down on
the ground near Uncle Wiggily. with
his long curly tail stretched out be-
hind him-the monkeys tail. mean.
Uncle Wiggily began hoeing the dirt
but. instead of making a hill around
his beans he slyly hOed a big hill of
dirt right over the monkeys tail 4
big pile of dirt the bunny uncle quick
y hoed over the monkeys tail. working
very fast.
-There," suddenly cried Uncle Wig
gily, catching up the spOols Of thread
and his hoe, and running away Now
let's see you chase afor> me and pull
my taiI-'
And the bad MONKEY could not. The
pile Of dirt on his tail was so heavy
that he could not move. and he had 20
stay there until the rain came and
washed away the earth But Uncle
NiEgily got safely home with the
thread. and il was a green spool Nurse
Jane wanted
So IL is a good thing Uncle Wiggily.
the farmer, had a hoe, and il the board
walk doesn't run away with the lemon
sQueezer and make the nutmeg crater
cry you shall next hear OF Uncle Wig
Rly and the Copyright.
1915, by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.