The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-24
UNCLE WicCiLY AND NANNlE's
PAINTS


PAINTS.
Uncle Wiggily L~ongears. the rabbit
gentleman, had been our for = ride in
his automobile. looking Tor an adven-
ture M day, when he stopped behind
a green. NOISY log in the woods, while
his machine took d drink Of water from
a bubbling spring. All OF a sudden The
bunny rabbit gentleman heard some
cne saying:
'Oh. dear. I y can get it right
It's worse b a ever I'm going to tear
it up.'.
"Hat That sounds as though some
one were sort of peeved and in trouble"
said Uncle Wiggily to himself. II must
see who 1t is. and il / car help them, "
for o know Mr.. Longeafs. as I cali
him when I want to he stiff and formal
like. was always trying to~help some
one.
So the bunny rabbit gentleman
peeked over the top or the log. and. on
the other side he saw Mamie 7Wnstail,
the little goat girl. painting a picture.
Or as least Mamie was trying to pant
one.
Now it may seem queer TO yon to
speak Of a goat girl drawing a picture.
but / Ok assure you it can be done.
Mamie had a little tin box of paints.
such as she and the other animal girls
used in the hollow stump school, where
they We're taught by the mouse lady.
And, for a brush. Mamie had tied q
piece of her hair ribbon around the
little bunch of whiskers that grew on
her chin, and this made a very proper
brush, indeed.
Mamie would dip her c~hin-brusa ! n
he water of the spring at which Uncle
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and then Mamie would rub her whis-
kers on some red, green, yellow or pink
paint-whatever color she wanted to
use. Then she would rub her whislSery
paint brush or a piece of white paper
she had fastened to a free with sticky
pine gum, and in this way she coaiu
really paint a pretty picture.
cat least that's what I'm trying TO
do" said Mamie when Uncle Wissssiiy
looked over the top of the log and asked
her what was the trouble, but, oh.
dear." cried Mamie, II can't make it
come right"
Whats wrong?" asked Uncle Wig
gily, looking at the picture which was
partly finished. 1T seems to me to be
very nice indeed"
"Oh, but it isn't at an" said Mamie
give made the tree pink. instead of
brown, and the Sky is black instead of
being blue, and the leaves and grass
are purple when they should be green.
You see" h went on. my u
whisker brush is so short that 1 can't
see what color I'm dipping it in, and /
get everything wrong. The lady mouse
teacher told me to take my paper in
the woods and paint what I saw, u
this picture looks like a sunset turned
upside down. Ali the colors are wrong.
oh, dear!! What shall / do"
Il wonder if l could help" said Uncle
Wiggily. So he made a brush of a
bunch of grass tied on a stick, and he
tried to make Nannie's painting better.
but the old gentleman rabbit a for
gotten his spectacles and he made the
grass blue, the sky green and h trees
rs it any better. Nannie?" asked the
bunny.
Wei, a little, / guess" said the goat
girl. not wanting to make Uncle Wig
gily feel badly. But it isn't just right
yet. Oh, dear! There's no use of mo
trying to paint. I'll never be an artist!
All l can do is to wash dishes and sew
buttons on Billie's. coat"
We'll, that's a very good thing to
do" said Uncle Wiggily. Not all Of us
needful as painting. But take your
paints and come with me. Maybe we'll
find some use for your pretty colors
after all. No matter if you do get the
wrong ones on the Sky and trees. they
are bright and jolly, and that's some
thing"
So the rabbit gentleman took Mamie
and her box of paints for a ride in his
automobile, and pretty soon they came
to a little house in the woods.
oh, it was a very rough and shabby
old house, indeed, sort of dark brown
and moldy, and it gave one the fidgets
to look at it, and the doodle-oodleun1s,
too.
WHO lives there?" asked Uncle Wig
| gily of a busy little bee lady who was
gathering honey.
"Oh, an old fox man, as cross as two
sticks and a scuttle of COAL" wa the
answer. He's cross and mean and al
ways unhappy"
NO wonder! Living in such a col
pred house" said the. bunny gentleman.
quick. Nannie!" he called. Il have a
plan! Take your box of paints and
| splash them on this house. Use your
brightest colors-pink, green, yellow,
red, blue. purple, white and spotted.
Daub all your colored paints all over
this dull, drab, brown house."
So Mamie did this, painting the
chimney a bright red, the shutters
plue, the porch pink. the back steps
green, and SO on, until she had used up
all the paints in her box. And wben
the house was finished it lookcd like
two bright sunsets stirred into one with
Z scrambled egg beater.
And then, along came the cross old
fox man, sort of grumbling and growi-
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