El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-27


| What day is it; do you known
Monday" replied Uncle Wiggily. i
| know II is Monday, for, as l came past
| the pen where Mrs. WibblewObble, the
duck lady lives. I , saw her clothes
Monday Goodi' gobbled the tur-
key. Then 1 have few days more.
I thought this was Thursday Hop along
! Uncle Wiggily. Don't mind me"
We'll, if you are in trouble I would
| like TO help you" spoke the rabbit
gentleman. hopeful like
| 1T is very kind of you" the turkey
! said But 1 am all right for a while,
I I think Hop along"
/ So Uncle Wiggily hoped along, and
/ soon he came to the cinnamon store
| where he bought the ground, or chop
| ped-up, spicy, sweet smelling stuff that
| goes in pumpkin pies, he put the
| paper of cinnamon in his tall SILK nat
! and started back for his hollow stump
! 1T was queer about that turkey,
thought the bunny gentleman. as, once
! more he came near the field where
! the gobble-obble bird lived i wonder
I what he was afraid OFF,
Just then. again, the bunny uncle
! heard of the call Of the big bird, VINO
! was like a chicken, only different, OF
sGobbIe-obble-ob cried the tur-
! key and then Uncle Wiggily heard this
ION, helpi Save me- Oh, he's com
| ing after me now Oh, dear
! for my friend" thought Uncle Wigglly-
| .'The turkey certainly is in a bad way
! even If il isn't Thursday ! must Sc
what l can do to help him Here i
Holding his tall silk hat tightly on
! his head so II would not fall of ana
/ spill the cinnamon, the RABBIT sen t,-5
! man hoped over the renee ana lo,llIu
| himself in the field where the turkey
What's the natter" asked the
MA. Matter? Matter enough cried the
! sobbier- Don't you see the butcher
man from the store coming after me re
10 catch me for Thanksgiving 1t IS
/ only Monday. to be sure, but he wants
me ahead Of time. Oh dear 49,, n
Why does he want your asked Nj
Longears. --ooz +ba
! turkey. oh, if 1 could only SET away
! iron, him What shall l do:
- ..i71I- over me fence" cried the bunny
as he saw the butcher man IN his long
white apron, running across the Ilei''-
u am too fat and heavy to fly" said
~" Then he \ crawl under the fence" Uncle
/ WiEgily called , -e,..-t,
so that I can crawl under, spoke the
| turkey Alas, and alack-a-day- L
/ SHAH surely he caught
Uncle Wiggily thought for mo-
iiie .0b. no. You shan't be caught" the
] bunny said. I viii save you see
With my strong paws VIII olg
hole under the <ence that is arounu
chs fieId Then. no matter how stiff
your legs are, you can ger out
! would carry you over the fence III ~
airship if I had it here. but nave
not so I viii dig the hole mere
Tben. while the butcher man was
running toward the turkey TO put MN
away cor Thanksgiving, Incle NlSsii ny
with his paWs. dug the hole soon the
t1lrICe,- could crawl under the renee
and he and Uncle WigELy ran doWI
the road. But the butcher, VINO coui"
Jump the fence came after them:
Faster and faster ran Uncle NlS5it-
and the turkey. but still faster came the
Stop: stop" he cried Il want that
turkey! 49,. ~, bir, .,
said brave Uncle WigEily-
Rut the butcher man came on stun
faster. and he had almost caught the
Turkey by its tail. when all OF A suu-
don Uncle Wiggily's tall SILK hat rev
off, out popped the paper OF pump KIN XII,
rie-cinnamon and, falling to the GROUND
Il burst. out puffed the sweet-smell-
M me POv wiHd blew it into the face Of the
.sEIer-cboo, Ker-chooi Aker-choo"
he sneezed. and he kept On sneezlIls 80
ro-d that he could not run any more
FOR II is very hard to sneeze and run
al the same time. The oCtchsr -
down on a stump and sneezeu anu
sneezed until there was no more en-
narnon IN his nose but by that time
Uncle Wiggily and the turkey were
safe at the bunny's hollow stump DUN
galow- -,;5
"Oh. thank you for saving me, Sal ,1
the turkey, politely But where Shsll
20 now I have no home at all
SStav with me until after Thanks
Giving" invited Uncle WiEgily, and the
f1lrlley did. You shall hear more about
him soon. Uncle Wiggily bought more
cinnamon so Nurse Jane could MAX
fbe pumpkin pie, and in the story aIter
This II the tin soldier doesn't SHOOT
The needle in the eye and make II
tickle the thimble fun Of thread, ~
srberries- 1915, by Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate-J