El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-30
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
UNCLE wIGGILY AND THE MUD.
-nr HOWARD r. GARIs.


, gily, twinkling his pink nose so that
! II looked just like strawberry short
cake Nothing like that
Off through the woods he hoped,
now and then stopping to listen 70
the song Of the birds. and again he
would hope over the fields, all the
while looking for an adventure
But he did not find any, and he was
thinking perhaps he had better go back
10 the bungalow for dinner, when, all
OF sudden, he heard a voice saying;
We'll now the pies are all made
and we'll bake them Shall 7 put the
cherry one in first or the apple?'
The apple, I think" answered an
other voice 7 think apple pies take
longer 10 bake than cherry
''Oh. JOY and happiness thought
Uncle Wiggily. Here is some one bak-
ing pies in the woods. Maybe II is the
pieman who met Simple Simon, going
70 the fair If so. and If he hears ! am
q friend 70 Mother Goose. [ may get a
pie for myself. so ] won't have 10 20
home to my bungalow for lunch
With his pink nose twinkling harder
than ever, and his mouth hungry like
for 4 pie, Uncle Wiggily peeked
through the bushes, and there he saw
Lulu and Alice Wibblewobble. the duck
girls. with Susie Littletail. the rabbit,
and Jennie Chipmunk playing beside a
little babbling brook that gurgled over
green messy stones.
'-Ah, hai' cried Uncle Wiggily- L
an Just in time 1 seei / know il is not
polite to invite oneself 10 lunch. but
when I heard you speak OF pies-which
were ready TO bake-why I Just could
not keep still"
-'Oh. you are very welcome. and we're
glad to see you" said Susie, ... -,
fear you viii be disappointed, Uncle
Wiggily
Why"
Because We are not playing with
1-f -.Ta
Not real pies?'' Uncle wiggIy spoke
family.
No said Alice the duck girl with a
blue dress We are only making mud
pies. and pretending they are real ones
See. we bake them hard in the sun,
and she showed him how they mixed
some sand with water from the brook,
how they put this mud in clam shells
and then. setting them in the sun, they
were baked hard.
well. this is fun. anyhow said
Uncle Wiggily, and he mixed up mud
pie himself. putting il in its clam shell
dish, and setting it in the hot sun 10
get hard.
rabbit gentleman. And so are You
little animal girls. 1 think. So come
with me to my bungalow and Wen
have lunch"
Right gladly did Lulu and Alice, the
duck girls. with Susie Littletail and
Jennie Chipmunk, go with the bunny
rabbit gentleman But when they
reached the hollow stump bungalow
they saw Nurse Jane out in front, run
ming up and down, clasping her paws
and crying out, while from the bunga-
low poured a big cloud Of smoke.
'Ohs my goodness me sakes alive and
some prickly pear pudding" cried
Uncle Wiggily. What has happened2
Is the bungalow on fire.
"Oh now answered Nurse Jane Not
quite as bad as that Johnnie and
aH--=r
were playing tag on the roof a while
But how did that make smoke in
the bungalow" asked Uncle Wigglly-
They weren't playing soldier, were
they. with bean shooters FOR guns ana
talcum powder to make smoker
No answered Nurse Jane But
they ran so hard against the chimney
that they broke part Of 1t of, and when
I made a fire in the stove. there being
no chimney on the roof of the bungalow
to take away the smoke. 1t all came
inside. and that's what you see pouring
from the windows and doors now
oh, dear me~ cried Uncle Niggiiy-
'sThe chimney broken Off That's too
bad I guess III have to send for
mason TO have II built up again: Ley
the fire go out Nurse Jane. and that
will stop the smoke. The mason viii
make a new chimney, but we can't cook
and have lunch until he builds it.
"Oh. yes We cam cried Alice Wio-
blewObble-
''How2' asked Uncle Wiggily, eager
Ike for he was hungry
Why we can mix some mortar from
sand and water, as we made our mud
pies This mortar will get hard in
little while, and if you make lots Of i,
and build 1t into a chimney II VIII
carry off the smoke. OF course We
girls cant get up on the roof to shape
the mud pie stuff into square CHM
wen do that" cried Johnnie and
Billie, the squirrel TT was our fault
for breaking the chimney so wen build
q new one Of muir pie stuff
So the animal girls mixed the mud IN
a dish pan, and the squirrels, with nat
sticks for masons' trowels- shaped the
mud plaster mortar into new CHM
ney. Soon the sun baked this hard. and
then the smoke poured out Of that as
naturally as anything. and did not fill
the bungalow any more
And then Nurse Jane could get luncn
for Uncle Wiggily and his animal
friends So this teaches US that mud
pies are good for something else tnan
having at play party, and II our cat
doesn't try TO stand on its tail and pull
the skin off the orange, the next story
will be about Uncle Wiggily and Ned
dies joke-Copyright 1917 by Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate
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