El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-06-21
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE CORNCOBS.
BY HOWARD R. GARIS.

. the corn. tossing the cObs over his ears.
and wondering what he would have Tor
I dinner. when, all Of a sudden, he heard
I a little voice asking
Uncle Wiggily, may 1 have these old
! cobsg"
why. OF course. you may answered
/ the bunny gentleman. And then he
/ thought he had better look and see
7 who was speaking. as. for all he knew.
! IL might be the bad old skilery- scalery
! alligator or the fuzzy fox
But Il was MOTT was only Jackie
/ Bow Wow. the little puppy dog chap.
What do you want Of the corncobs,
+ Jackie2" asked Uncle Wiggily, curious
Z like.
on I'm going 10 make something OF
them said the little puppy chap May
/ have lot Of them2"
AS many as you like answered
the bunny man 4 shall be glad TO
get rid of them. as they are Of no use
! TO me. All cOrncObs are good for. as far
as / know. are to make pipes and as
/ don't smoke on account OF my rheu-
matism. I don't need a pipe I don {
want the corucObs-they are no good
! Take them all"
But you just wait and see how good
the corncobs were going to be to Uncle
; Wiggily
The old rabbit gentleman Kept on
Smelling corn. and tossing the empty
cons IN pile behind him There Jackie
Bow Vow picked them up. and Uncle
Nigglly did not notice what the pupnF
I dog did with them.
a little later along came Grand
I father GoOsey Gander, the goose gen
tleman. waddling through the corn
( Ielo Just like an elephant picking up
peanuts
@Wen Well Uncle Wiggily,' he ex-
claimed Il certainly am glad to see
, you I haven't had game OF Scotch
checkers with you in a long while
Can't we play now2'
I'VE have no checkers or a checker
a he hun nnfaNn
we can easily mark out the squares
OF checker board on the ground"
said Grandpa GOoSey. and for check
ers We can take kernels of corn. You
take the red ones. and III take yellow"
50 the two friends began TO play
Scotch checkers. That is a game in
which you either have to make d hop
Scotch or eat butterscotch or some
thing Scotch, as you play
All Of a sudden. just as Uncle Wig
gily was jumping one Of his red check
er kings over two Of Grandpa GoOsey's
yellow corn checker men. there was
a growing sound at the end Of the
cornfeld and out popped a big, bad
-Ah. ha-' barked the fox. Just ike
a dog. 7 am in luck today. I will
have two good meals-a rabbit and a
goose. Ha, Har'
"Oh, dear" sadly said Uncle Wig
gily. IT'S TOO badt"
1t certainly is" cried Grandpa
]
one, and one and one make two bad,
But it's the fox who really is bad He
is one bad. DO you think he viii eat
u.s."
That's just what I am going TO do
cried the fox Here 7 Gomez and
with that he made a jump for the two
friends. but just then a sly little voice
said:
Uncle Wiggily, Grandpa Goosey,
Come in here. quick"
In where asked the bunny uncle.
looking all around.
In the strong house that made OF
the empty cOrncobs," was the answer.
''COme in and hide and the fox can't
get you" and there stood Jackie Bow
Wow. the puppy boy. at the door Of 2
was a large enough house for him and
Uncle Wiggily and Grandpa GOosey- |
Into it they jumped. and Jackie quick
" closed the door tightly Up rushed
the FOX. but he could not get in the
corncob house and the rabbit the goose
and the puppy dog boy were safe.
Then the fox clinking his teeth. be-
cause he was SO disappointed. ran
away, and he had TO go to a restaurant (
for his dinner
'Ha; I guess corncobs are OF some
use in this world after all said Uncle
WiCEily. when everything was all
VIII think more Of them after this
And if the busting brush doesn't Z
jump over the hroomstick. and scare {
the frying pan so that il tries TO hide
under the sink, III tell you next about
Uncle WiEEily and the well
Copyright. 1916, by Mcclure News :
paper Syndicate