El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-02-19
Dedt1me story Cor the LITTLE Ones
UNCLE wIGGILY THE SEVEN SWANS
By HOWARD GARIS


on a sleeve. now putting on a collar
I 4 button or whatever shirts need 10
( have.
Perhaps she has no tongue and can't
talk. said Encle Wiggily. 7 viii ask
her in writing
So on a white piece Of birch bark.
7 with a stick blackened in the fire for a
! pencil the bunny gentleman asked the
J niue SRI why she was sewing the
{ shirts so fast.
The little girl wrote this answer
T Many years ago = bad fairy chang
! my seven brothers into seven big
! Whlte swans 1 went to a good fairy
70 nave her change the enchantment
& Inc good talry said il I would make
seven grass shirts in seven years. and
never IN all that time spea a single
word. At the end of that time. if
! sIpped the grass shirts over my
Drothers they would be changed back
INTO their own selves gain So this
IS what / am doing. may not speak
Of It. but I may write
But don't YOU want some help2"
asked Uncle WigEily. writing on his
piece Of bark Are not the seven years
nearly up
Yes wrote back the little girl.
whose name was Marcia. = am afraid
7 shall not have the shirts finished on
time I have two vet to make, and
the shirt-grass is getting more and
more scarce"
''Ha, Then it viii he a great pleas
ure for me to help YOU wrote Uncle
Wiggily. 7 will have my frinds Sam
ME and Susie Little tail. the rabbits;
Johnnie and Billy Bushytail. the squir-
reis. and Mamie and Billie Wagtail, the
goats. as well as Jollie and Jillie Long
tail, the mouse children. 20 all over
the woods and fields gathering shirt
grass for you, so all YOU will need TO
do win be to sew"
That is very kind OF you" wrote
hn hi
them bring the s. -rt-grass every day
10 the cabin where 7 live with my
brothers. the seven swans. I will be
much obliged to you.''
Don't mention it." wrote Uncle Wig
giIv
Then he went away to get all his
little animal friends to gather the
shirt-grass for the little girl. and
girls offered to sew on the shirts. but
the little girl said she. only. vas al
lowed to do it
"Oh. now I know who she IS" said
her paw full OF grass 10 the log cabin |
one day. Il know her now"
Who IS she2" asked Uncle Wiggily. |
''She's in a ook like the Arabian |
Nights said Susie. "And her brothers.
the seven swans. are seven princes" !
So each day the animal children !
brought grass for the little girl 20 /
sew into magical shirts 70 change the !
And one morning. when Susie came
with her load Of grass, and found
Uncle Wiggily At the log cabin to see
that everything was all right, the
little rabbit girl said:
ooh. Uncle Wiggily, Something |
dreadful is going 10 happen"
What. Susie"
ooh. the little sewing girl is not
done in time. One arm Of the last
shirt Will be missing. and when she
puts the shirt on her swan brother he
viii be turned back into a prince. all
wing. I know, for I read about how
{ happened in the book
Then we'll fool the book" said
Tncle WigEily- I'VE won't say anything
o the litt'e girl. but I'll have Nurse
ane Fuzzy WuzZy. my muskrat lady ]
iousekeeDer. make ~ extra shirt arm. !
nd at the right moment We'll put II
n the shirt made for the seventh swan
rother prince"
''Finet" cride Susie. And Uncle Wiz
-ilv's pink nose twinkIed twice as
asst as before. At last the dav came.
he little girl had her shirts all ready |
s there came flying through the air
D the log ca bin the seven swans.
Each swan. as he flew Up. landed in
-Ont OF the little girl, who threw over
i'm the grass shirt she had sewn In
tantlv. the swan was changed into a
eautiful prince, who bowed to Uncle
Viggily. his sister and everybody.
And so IL went on until six swans
ad been changed TO princes. Then. as
he little girl threw the last shirt over
le seventh swan. she noticed that
le shirt had but one sleeve
ooh. dear. what shall 7 Do" cried
lie little girl.
out from the ground sprang the bad
iirT.
''FIa,' she cried. you made a mis-
Ike. and you smoke before IL was time.
or that your last brother shall have,
lstead of an arm. a swans wing"
well. I guess nott" Grid Jane Fuzzy
-uzzy- ct can do a little fairy bust
ass myself when ! want to"
Then she sewed TO the last shirt the
-tra sleeve she had made. and so the
venth swan was changed into a
'oper prince with two arms like his
others o
So everything came out all right. and "
Ie good fairy came around and | o.
aneed the log cabin to a palace and 81
ncle Wiggily. Nurse Jane and the "
iirnaI children used often 10 visit the | D
tile princess and her seven brother d.
fnces. oil
So this teaches rs It IS a good thing a
know how to sew. and II the bath Il
ON sponge doesn't take all the water al
Z OF the cuckoo clocks seed dish. III h'
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