El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-07-17
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
UNCLE wIGGnY AND THE BLACKBIRDs.

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rclappiuE her paws together. and try.
ing 10 make her pink nose twinkle ai
her bunny uncle did his
"Oh, yes let's play school" cried
Lulu Wibblewobble, one OF the Gucb
girl sisters coming along just then
It's fun 20 play school when yOu
don't have 10 so, and We can make
+ believe we don't know our lessons
and Susie viii keep US in. and Wen
bring cornmeal lolypops and eat
them in school and all like that"
"Oh. yes, Let's cried JIlie Long
tail. the mouse girl VIII you be
teacher, SUSIE
But give us easy words to spell"
T begged Alice WibblewOhble, the other
/ duck girl. Cause can't spell very
well in hot weather"
All right I WILL promised Susie.
who was TO be the teacher. just like
the lGdy mouse in the hollow stump
where the animal girls and boys went
10 real school when there was any
Uncle Wigsily Longears. the rabbit
gentleman. who was going TO the
store for Nurse Jane Fuzzy WuZzv,
his muskrat lady houSekeeper, just
about this time. passed behind the
bushes under which The animal girls
were playing school. and heard what
they were going TO do.
''I guess I'll come and make believe
Pm the Jauitor, and III ring the blue
bell flowers 20 call you all TO school
said the bunny uncle. laughing.
"Oh, please do begged Susie, and
Uncle WiEgily said he would after he
came back from the three and four
cent store, where he was going 10 gel
Nurse Jane a diamond dishpan-
on his way through the wood TO 20
10 the store the bunny rabbit gentle
man heard a fittering of wings in
the bushes, and thinking il was his
friends, the yellow birds he called 10
them But. no sooner had he done so,
than he heard voice saying
con, dear This IS terrible. We cane
fly over that field ar ALL and what
shall we do for something to eat2''
And then came a banE-banE sound.
like gun, and the birds voices cried
@Oh. dearr
"Ha- There is trouble here said
Uncle NIggily. "I must see what L.
is about So ne looked through the
bushes and be saw "a large flock OF
blacE1irds Iuttering about on the
"W hat is the matter. and may
have the pleasure Of helping you ."
asked Cnce W1EEIit politely bowling
with his tall silk hat TO the birds.
There Is trouble" said the head
black bird "Our flock wants 20 fly
across the co-llield Of a farmer 10
the other side of these woods. We
have TO fly across 10 get TO the place
where we can flrd what we want to
eat. But every time we fly over his
field the farmer shoots his gun at
us.
Bless my pink twinkIlng nose"
cried Uncle WigEiiy- why does ne
do that
Because he thinks we're crows
after his corn" answered the head
bird I'VE are black, like crows, but
we are smaller. you see. and we never
pun UP corn Sru this farmer shoots
mr. u.s."
IN Tell him he's making a mis-
take" said Uncle WiEEill-- Just Won
wait here and don fly until 1 tell
Then the bunny uncle hoped over
10 where tne farmer rmaking believe
fc was a scarecroWl was hiding be-
mind tree, ana the bunny gentleman. /
"lo could sI.eak mau-raIk once in a
please. Mt Farmer. don't shoot at
he blackbirls- They are 2 OF crows. .
rs YOU think. They viii not hurt yOuI .
'Oru. Instead they viii bite the bad .
'uEs and worms that would cat your F.
garden TO pieces
~Oh." said the farmer. II am sorry .
made mistake like that ! beg rhe
.lackblrls uarlous- They may fly
Ee- UE field as much as they like
So The h-asEb.rLs drI. tile farmer
ere very thankful 90 Uncle WiEgily.
hen the bunny rabbit gentleman
rent on to the store for Nurse Jane
UZZv WuZZy, and when he had
rouEht he the dozen candy eggs she
'auteu 20 make some peanut PAN
axes with. Nr- LolE.a airs went baci.
b plat f-u1rOr at the Woodland school
nth the animal girls.
"DiuE-dOnE. DiuE-dOng- Ding
0ug." Uncle WigEily rang the blue
Ill ~"
lice and all the others came run
ing. hopping. flying, waddIug or
unuing so they would not be late
Pretty soon Susie. making believe
he was the Teacher. called,
Jennie Chipmuuk, go 10 the black
Gard and write me the word boy
III you please, teacher, I can't said
ennie.
why note"
Because there isn't any black
GARD"
And. surely enough there wasn't.
he little animal girls had forgotten
hat when they played school, and
hey didn't have even slate. They
ad some white birch bark for paper,
nut no blackboard
And then, all Of a sudden, when
he make-beIieve scholars were feel
OF Of blackbirds-
Wen be bIackboards for you"
hey chirped, and you can write on
ur black wings and tails with white
aisy petals for chalk" So the animal
iris did this and the blackbirds were
s. fine blackbOards as heart could
wish. and IN was a lovely play-schOol.
And II the wash basin doesn't mis-
axe the fuzzy poodle dog for q
PONCE and wash IT'S face I'll tell you
ext OF Uncle WiEEiiy and the red
rd--CopyrlGht, 1917, by Mcclure
newspaper Syndicate