El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-19
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
UNCLE wIGGILY AND THE SPOON
-..v HOWARD n. CAMS

And I'm glad TO see YOU spoke
Mr.. Sharpnose. Il came over 10 finu
when you were going TO give my boy,
Teddy. his next lesson in polite table
IN come right away spoke Uncle
Wiggily-
7 think you'd better" said the papa
fox Because Teddy. at breakfast to-
day. used his spoon TO eat pie with Is
that right2"
Most decidedly not" cried Uncle
Wiggily. a fork for pie, but not for
soup. if you eat in the kitchen or on
the front stoop"
I'm glad to know that" said Mr..
SharpnOse- So while he ran back 10
say that Uncle WigEily was coming.
the bunny gentleman. taking a spoon
from the cupboard to use i'm giving
Teddy his lesson. set out from the hol-
low stump bungalow
Don't you think you ought to take
a knife or fork, alsOe' asked Nurse
Jane.
Why" Uncle Wiggily asked. 7 gave
Teddy his knife and fork lesson last
week
We'll. you might need a fork 10
tickle some Of the foxes in the RIBS, II
they try to bite you spoke the musk
.Nonsensicalness,r laughed the
bunny a spoon is all I need TO get
me out of trouble And just you wait
and see how true il all happened, just
az I'll tell you.
Over the fields and through the
woods went the bunny uncle with the
spoon which he was 10 use in giving
Teddy SharpnOse. the little hoy fox,
his politeness talk. And when the
bunny reached the burrow he found
many other little fox boys and girls
there, all anxious to learn Teddy's les
son also.
So Mr.. Longesrs taught them how to
eat from the side Of the spoon nearest
them. instead OF turning it TO get at
the end. and ne told them they must
never polish their spoons with their
tongues
And now We will have lesson in
eating soup, went on the bunny "Y GU
must make no noise taking it from your
spoons. remember"
Mrs. Sharpnose set plates OF ca bbage
and lettuce soup before the foxes and
Uncle Wiggily. The bunny made no
noise at all taking his from the side
OF his spoon. but some Of the fox boys
were not quite so lucky.
why. I can hear that spoon as well
a. see IT." laughed Uncle Wiggily.
Then Teddy and the others did bet
ter. They were so busy eating, listen
ing to Uncle Wiggily and learning the
polite way TO use a spoon. that none OF
them thought OF looking out of the
window Of the underground house. But
just as the rabbit gentleman, when the
soup was all gone. suddenly called;
'Present-spoons," Teddy happened TO
glance up and he cried;
oh. dear"
What's the matter asked Uncle
self on your spoon, Teddy, as you used
to on your knife2"
mo. But look st the snowi- cried
the fox boy
And surely enough II was showing
very hard outside The white flakes
were sitting down from the sky and the
wind was blowing them into deep
drifts The ground was covered more
? FH-H-
still falling II was like a blizzard
"Oh. what fun Wen have sleigh rid
ing" cried Teddy. And just then his
mother came running into the dining
room
on she cried. something terrible
has happened. Oh"
~What2" asked Uncle Wigsily. What
IS itg'
The snow has drifted in front OF the
front door and I can't get out and Mr.
Sharpnose can't get in 10 eat his dinner
when he comes from the egg factory
said the lady fox "Oh. such a big drift
ls in front OF the door"
"Ha- Trouble, We must see TO this"
cried Uncle WisEily. He went to look
at the drift When he came back TO
the dining room he called 10 the fox
boys and girls:
IAN ready. Shoulder spoonsi For
ward, march, And with our spoons well
dig way through the snowdrift so
NJ Sharpnose can get in"
Uncle Nlggliy began snoTellng away
the snow with his big tablespoon and
the fox boys and girls tossed the white
flakes aside with their dessert spoons
and soon the front door was cleared
so the papa fox could get in. And all
the while II showed Teddy and his
friends kept the front door clear Of
snow with their spoons Weren't they
CLEVER
And Mrs. Sharpnose vas very glad
o. the spoon lesson which the bunny
had
story, 4 the curtain cord doesn't tie it.
self in a knot so hard that the clock
can't wind itself UP. III tell you about
Uncle Wiggily and the platte--COpy-
dicate