El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-20
Story For the Little Ones
"Uncle Viggily and the DOgwOOd."
By TOWARD, B. GARIS.


and his whiskers sort OF chase them
selves around the back of his neck -
though they were playing tag with ms
collar button. 4 just love 10 nave au-
/ ventures"
We'll. while you are out walking;
| would you mind doing me a favor
Z asked Nurse Jane
L wouldn't mind in the least" spoke
the bunny uncle. What would you
like me to do2"
Just leave this thimble at Mrs. Bow
/ Vows house l borrowed the ooE
ladys thimble to use when / couldn
! find mine. but now that I have my
own back again I'll return hers
! Where was yours Uncle Nl8Bh!
! wanted to know.
Jimmie Caw-Caw, the crow boy, had
! picked II up to hide under the pump
| answered Nurse Jane. Grows, you
! know. like to pick up bright and shin
! ing things"
Yes. I remember" said Uncle Wig
! gily. Very well, I'll give Mrs. Bow,
| Wow her thimble,' and off the ola
] gentleman rabbit started. limping alonS
| on his red, white and blue striped rheu-
| matism crutch, that Nurse Jane Fuzzy
Wuzzy had gnawed for him out or
bean pole. Excuse me, IPmean corn
stalk.
When Uncle Wiggily came to the
! house where Jackie and Peetie Bow
Wow. the little puppy dog boys lived
he saw Mrs Bow-W Wow. the dog LADY
! out in front Of the kennel house look
ing up and down the path that led
through the woods.
Were you looking for me?" asked
Uncle Wiggily. making a low and po-
lite how with his tall silk hat.
Looking for you? Why, no, not spe-
! cially." said Mrs Bow-Wow. though
1 am always glad to see you"
Il thought perhaps you might be
looking for your thimble," went on the
hun 81 hna
back to you"
"Oh. thank YOU" said the mother Of
the puppy dog boys. I'm glad to get
my. thimble back, but I was really
looking for Peetie and Jackie"
You don't mean 10 say they have
run away, do your" asked Uncle Wig
gily in surprise.
NO. not exactly run away. But they
have not come home from school.
though the lady mouse, who teaches in
the hollow stump, must have let the
animal children out long ago
"She did" Uncle Wiggily said. Il
came past the hollow stump school on
my way here and every one was gone
Then where can Jackie and peetie
be keeping themselves asked Mrs
Bow-WOw. "Oh, I'm so worried about
them,"
Don't be worried or frightened" said
Uncle WiggiIy. kindly. III go look
for them for you"
'Oh. II you will I'll be so gladr' cried
MIS-. BOW W OW. Ana II you 11nu them
please tell them to come home at once"
II Will" promised the bunny uncle.
Giving the dog lady her thimble,
Uncle Wiggily set off through the
woods 10 look for Jackie and Peetie
Bow-Wow. On every side Of the wood
land path he looked. under trees and
bushes and around the corners of moss
covered rocks and big stumps.
But no little puppy dog chaps could
An a. once as Mr. Ton~ears vras
going past an old log he heard a rust
ling in the bushes, and a voice said'
"Wcll, we nearly caught them, didn't
we"
I'VE surely did" said another voice.
And ] think If we race after them
once more well certainly have them.
Lees rest here a bit and then chase
those puppy dogs some more That
Jackie is good runner"
II think Peetie is better" said the
o,her voice. Anyhow, they both got
away from us"
"Hai This must be Petite and Jackie
Wow they are talking about" said
Uncle Wiggily 10 himself This sounds
like trouble. SO the puppy dogs were
chased. were they? I must see by
whom"
there he saw two big bad foxes, whose
tongues were hanging out over their ,
white teeth. for the foxes had run far
and they were tired.
thought The foxes chased the little
puppy dogs as they were coming from
school and Jackie and Peetie have run
somewhere and hidden. I must find
them"
lust then one Of the foxes cried:
Come on. Now we'll chase after
those puppies. and get them. Come on"
"Ha, I must go. too" thought Uncle
Wiggily. Maybe can scare away the
foxes and save Jackie and Petite"
So the foxes ran and Uncle Wiggily
also ran. and pretty soon the rabbit
gentleman came to a place in the woods
where grew a tree with big white bios
SONS on it, and in the center the bios
SONS were colored red
"Hai There are the puppy boys under
that tree" cried one fox, and. surely !
enough, there. right under the tree. /
Jackie and Peetie were crouched, tren- !
bling and much frightened.
Wen get them" cried the other fox.
Come on"
And then, all OF a sudden. as the foxes
leaped toward the poor little puppy dog
boys, that tree began to bark and |
grOWl and IL cried out loud:
Get away from here, you bad foxes, /
Leave Jackie and Peetie alonei Wow,
Bow-Wowi Gurr-r-r-r" and the tree {
barl1ed and roared so like a lion that /
the foxes were frightened and were !
glad enough TO run away, taking their (
tails with them. Then Jackie and Pee /
Tie came safely out, and thanked the !
tree for taking care Of them.
"Oh. you are welcome" said the tree. Z
Il am the dogWOod tree, you know, so ]
why shouldn't I bark and growl to /
scare foxes, and take care of you little !
puppy chaps Come to me again when
ever any bad foxes chase you" And {
Petite and Jackie said they would /
Copyright, 1916, by Mcclure NeWsDaner /