El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-05-28
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
UNCLE wIGGnY AND THE CANNON.
y AND THE CANNON.
4 d HOWARD q GAHIA


swered the rabbit chap. TIL get
Z Jimmie " ibblewobble, the duck
Jackie and Petue Low o.,
pupDv dog boys, and The Bushytal
Squirrel boys, and well make can
non that shoots with a loud Bang
I Bang
All right" replied the bunny rab-
I bit, turning away so his ears would
hide his smile. You may try"
Away rushed Sammie, as happy as
a clam when il jumps out - &C
chowder to chase an oyster cracker
around the salt cellar.
Were going to have a cannonl
We're going to have cannon Sam
ME cried, and all the animal boys
shouted c.Hurrayw like a little girl
| know, who says that when she has
finished dancing the foxtrOt without
stepping on the toes Of Grandma
Goosey Gander.
Uncle Wiggly, a little later, was
sitting in his soldier tent, about
which have told you. and as he ate
his lunch Of carrot sandwiches with
lettuce ice cream sparkled through
laughed-'Hai Hal
Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy. his
muskrat lady hOusekeeper, who was
hanging up clothes in the bungalow
yard. heard the bunny.
What are you laughing at, Uncle
3
one Of the enemy mosquitoes tickle
you under the chin2'
NO indeed" replied the bunny
uncle, as he stood up and saluted his
housekeeper in true soldier fashion.
I was just laughing at the thought
of Sammie Littletail and his little
animal boy friends making a cannon.
II viii be like Johnnie Bushytairs
starch box drum, I suppose cannon
made of paper as the kindergarten
class in the stump school. where the
lady mouse teaches. makes baskets
out Of chalk dust But II will be fun
for them, though their cannon en-
no more keep away the mosquitoes
than can my tail silk hat"
Well. don't be too sure about il, :"
spoke Nurse Jane. but Uncle Wiggily
only laughed again, and ate the Jolly
pop pudding ice cream which the
muskrat lady brought out to him.
When Sammie Littletal told the
other animal chaps that Uncle Wig
gily would let them make a cannon
to be fired in front Of his war tent,
to keep away the mosquitoes, all the
rabbits puppies, SQUIRRELS, ducks.
guinea pigs, goats and other friends
began to work They spent all Of one
afternoon when school was out and
what they made
Well, you shall hear about that IN
q little while.
night in Woodland. where Uncle
Wiggily, brave soldier gentleman
rabbit that ne was, marche7 up and
down on guard in front Of his tent.
I think must light my camp fire
and see about getting supper" said
the bunny TO himself For he did
most Of his own cooking since he had
started to be a soldier, and hN stayed
in the tent which he had put up near
his hollow stumD bungalow
So Uncle Wiggily, lighted his fire,
and began to cook some turnips, but
all at once-"BiZZi Buzz out from
the swamp where they stayed dur
ing the day flew lot OF big, hungry
and thirsty mosquitoes. Straight for
Uncle Wi~gily they flew and began
biting him.
he slapped himself on his neck and
ears to drive away the biting bugs
But more mosquitoes came-a reg
ular army of them-and the soldier
rabbit gentleman wished some OF the
animal boys, who We're being trained
by him to be sol iers also. would
come with their bean shooting pop
guns 10 drive the pests away.
Uncle Wiggily himself fired his
own gun at the mosquitoes, but there
were so manv of them he could not
drive them all away.
'Hai This is the time we capture
taint'A cried the herd mosquito. -Ad-
vance. comrades Forward, march,
Canture Uncle Wiggilyr"
Wen, the bad mosquitoes were Just
going to do this. when. down the
woodland path sounded a rumbling.
thought It WIS thunder and
ne was Flad, for rain viii some
times drive mosquitoes aWav. But
the sky was clear and the stars out,
so II could not be a shower.
The rumbling kept up. and then.
all OF a sud1N have TH'@0 I'D:
Ready. nowi Take aim, Fire.
'Bangi" went big noise, and out
toward the mosquitoes in front OF
Uncle Wiggily's ten rushed \ cloud OF
smoke AMI talcum and toOthpO @der.
And right through the mess of mos
ouitoes shot needles. hat pins. safety
pins, paper pins, buttons. hooks. eyes
and everything like that
'Whoo-ishi" cried the mosquitoes
They are firing cannon at us, We
can't stand this, Come on. fly
aWayi" and they did.
Then Uncle WigGily saw that SOM
mic and his animal boy friends had
made a big cannon by pasting two
round hat boxes together They had
fastened the cannon on some old
baby carriage wheels and they had
loaded the pastbOard gun with tooth
pins. needles. and other thin~s they
found on their motors or sisters bu-
reaus. And when the cannon was
fired at the mosquitoes, away they
flew as fast as anything
We'll, wellr exclaimed Uncle
Wiggily. 4 didn't think you animal
boys could make a cannon, but you
did I'm sorry I laughed at them,
Nurse Jane"
Nurse Jane was kind enough not
to say Il told you So" and every one
was happy And II the potatoes in
my garden don't try TO look over the
fence and scare the radishes upside
down I'll tell you next about Uncle
Wiggily being blown up.-Copyright
1917, by Mcclure Newspaper Syndi-
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