El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-09-08
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
WIOGIL1 AND HIS IUKN LUAI.
By HOWARD B. GARrS.

Nice enough to go to Grandfather
Goosey Gander's party2" asked the
! rabbit gentleman
oh, yes indeed" exclaimed Nurse
| Jane I didn't know Grandpa Goosey
i was 10 give party. but If he is, you
| certainly look well enough to go with
| your new coat Of course. IL might be
| better if il had some lace insert IN
| around the button holes. or a bit Of
! ruching, with oyster shell trimming
/ sewed down the back. but
I oh, no. indeed" laughed the bunny
uncle If IL had those things on il
would be coat for a lady I like mine
plain
Well. take care of yourself" called
Nurse Jane after him as he hoped off
over the fields and through the woods
TO the house where Grandfather Goosey
Gander lived.
Now. I must be very careful not to
get my new coat dirty. or I won't look
nice at the party. the old rabbit gen
tleman was saying to himself as he
hoped along I must be very care
full indeed
He went along as carefully IS ne
could. but. just as he was going down
little HILL under the trees. he came
TO a place that was so slippery that
before he knew IL. all of a sudden
Uncle Wiggilv fell down and slid to
the bottom of the hill
Ny goodness" he cried. as ne stood
Up after his slide i did not know
And when he looked there was not.
but 1t was covered with long. thin pine
needles, which are almost as slippery
as glass It was on these that the
rabbit gentleman had slipped down hill
We'll, there is no great harm done
said Uncle Wiggllv to himself & ne
found no bones broken. I had a little
slide, that's all 7 must bring Sammie
and Susie Littletail here some day. ami
let them slide on pine needle hill.
Johnnie and Billie Bushtail, the two
squirrels. would also like ii. and so
would Mamie and Billie Wagtail, my
two goat friends"
Uncle Wlggily was about to go on
to the party when, as he looked at his
new coat he saw that it was all torn.
In sliding down the slippery pine
needle hill the coat had caught m
sticks and stones and II had manv
holes torn in II. and il was also ripped
here and there
oh. dear me-" cried Uncle WiggiIy.
-Oh. sorrow, Oh unhappiness, Now
TIL have to go back to my hollow stump
bungalow and nut on my old coat that
isn't torn For l never can wear my
new one to the party. That would !
never do, But the treble Is. Il go /
back home I'll be late, Oh. dear. what |
trouble I am in"
Now was the time for some Of Uncle |
Wiggily's friends to help him in his |
trouble. as he had often helped them. |
But. as he looked through the woods |
he could not see even little mouse. or |
a grasshOpper-
The tailor bird would be Just the |
one I'd like TO see now" said the rab-
bit uncle. She could mend my torn |
coat nicely For tailor birds. YOU /
know, can take 2 piece of grass with
their bill for needle. and sew leaves |
together to make a nest. almost as well
as your mother can mend hole in
your stocking
But there was no tailor bird in the
woods, and Uncle Wiggily did not /
know what to do
4 certainly do not want to be late TO
bunny uncle, nor do I want to 20 20 |
II in torn coat. Oh. DEAR
Just then he heard down on thu
ground near him, little voice saying:
Perhaps we could mend your coat !
for YOU Uncle Wiggily."
You Who are you. and how can
you mend my torn coat2" the bunny /
gentleman wanted to know
We are some little black ants"
was the answer, "and with the pine
needles lying on the ground-some of
the same needles on which you slipped
we can sew up your coat. with long
grass for thread"
.oh, that will he fine II you can dc
L, spoke the bunny uncle. Can you2T
We'll Try, the ants said. Then !
about fourteen thousand six hundred |
md twenty two black ants took each
long sharp pine needle. and thread |
ng il with grass, they began to sew
ID the rips and tears in Uncle Wig
yily's coat. And in places where they |
,ould not easily sew they stuck the
10th together with sticky gum from
he pine tree. So. though the pine tree !
vas to blame. in way. for Uncle |
Niggily's fail. IL was also the means !
# mending his coat
Soon the coat was almost as good as
lew, and you could hardly tell where !
[ was torn And Uncle Wiggily, kind
y thanking the ants. went on to
irandpa Goosey's party and had a fine
ime and also some ice cream.
And if the egg beater doesn't take
IL the raisins out of the rice pudding. |
70 il looks like 2 cup custard going 70 |
he moving pictures, the next story
will be about Uncle Miggily and the !
litter medicine.-Copyright. 1916, by |
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