El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-18
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
Uncle wiggily the First Little Kitten"
By HOWARD GARIS

T Uncle WIGGILY LONGEARS, the
nice old rabbit gentleman. was
asleep in his easy chair by the
fire which burned brightly in his hol-
low stump bungalow. Mr.. Longears
was dreaming that he had just eaten
q piece Of cherry pie for lunch, and
that the cherry pits were dropping on
the floor with a "rat-a-tat-tat" when
ne suddenly awakened and heard some
one knocking on the front door.
ma! Who Is there? Come in!' cried
the rabbit gentleman, hardly awake
yet Then he happened to think:
Il hope IL isn't the bad fox, or the
skillery-scalery alligator. whom I have
invited in. j ought not to have been
so quick"
But it was none Of these unpleasant
creatures who had knocked on Uncle
Wiggily's door 1t was Mrs. Purr, the
nice cat lady and when the RABBIT
gentleman had let her In she looked 50
sad and sorrowful that he said:
y What is the matter, Mrs Purr. Has
anything happened?
Indeed there has, Mr.. Longears," the
cat lady answered. You know my
three little kittens. don't you?
"Why. yes, i know them" replied the
bunny uncle. They are Fuzzo, Muzzo
and Wuzzo. ! hope they are not nix
mo, they are not ILL., said the cat
lady, mewing sadly, but they have run
away. and ! came TO see If you would
help me get them back"
"Run away Your dear little Kit
!. tens" cried Uncle Wiggily- You
'ydon't mean 70 How die IT happenT
well, you know my little kittens
had each a new pair Of mittens' said
Mrs. Purr
yes, 1 read about that in the Mother
Goose book" said the rabbit gentleman.
1T must be nice to have new mittens."
"My little kittens thought So went
on Mrs. Purr. Their grandmother,
Pussy Cat Mole, knitted them"
81 have met Pussy Cat Mole" said
Uncle Wiggily. After she jumped over
a coal and in her best petticoat burned
a great hole / helped her mend it SO
she could 20 to the party"
Il heard about that IL was very
good Of you" mewed Mrs. Purr. But
about my little kittens. When they got
their mittens, what do you think they
did2"
why, I suppose they went out and
played in the snow" Uncle Wiggily
said. 81 know that is what ! would
have done when 1 was little rabbit If
I had had new pair Of mittens."
Il only wish they had done that,
Mrs. Purr said But instead, they
went and ate some cherry pie. It got
all over their new mittens, and when
they saw it they became afraid I would
scold them, and they ran away. 1 was
not home when they ate the pie and
soiled their mittens, but the cat who
lives next door told me.
Now ] want to know If you VIII
try to find my three little kittens FOR
me: Fuzzo. Wuzzo and Muzzo2 1 want
them to come home so badlyi
I'll go look for them,' promised the
old rabbit gentleman. SO taking his
red, white and blue rheumatism crutch,
'ofs he started over the field and
through the woods. Mrs. Purr went
back home to get supper i'm case her
kittens, with their pie-soiled mittens''
should come back by themselves be-
fore Uncle Wiggily found them
On and on went the old rabbit gentle
man. He looked on all sides and
through the middle for any OF the lost
kittens, but he saw none for quite a
while Then, all at once, he heard
mewing sound over in the bushes and
he said: