El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-11-15
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
UNCLE wIGGIY AND THE SCATCHEM
-.,,-,u,,r,rr, By HOWARD II. GARIs-,r,,,.,,-,.,,-


Uncle Wi-eily shook his head
a doll is different, Susie" he said
J especially one named ClOulda. Blu
/ I'll tell you what / might do" Ia
I went on, more cheerfully-
/ what" asked the little rabbit girl
I trying 10 make her pink nose twinkle
I as did the rabbit gentleman's.
Z III take your doll to the tOymakel
I who lives in umpinE-Jack lane, jus
back Of me- said Uncle Wiggily- 81.
Z think maybe he can fix your doll fol-
I you"
"Oh. I hope he cam cried Susie
[ will you. Uncle Wiggily2 Please viii
YOU take ClOtlda Huckleberry Peach.
I kake and have her insides fixed2'
Il will,' promised the bunny rabbit
and he did take the broken doll 10 the
toy shop
.Oh. surely I can fix her." said the
monkey doodle gentleman, who put
roofs on Noah's arks and made new
legs for tin soldiers. stop back in
half an hour
So Uncle WiEgily went for a walk
in the woods looking for an adven-
ture. but he didn't find any, and in
half an hour he came back TO the
toymaEer's shop
Here's Susie's doll said the mon
key doodle she can talk, laugh and
sing as well as ever when you wind
up the spring in her back and punch
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front of her dress, and he showed
Uncle WigEily how
That's fine" said the bunny rabbit
gentleman susie viii be delighted
SO back he started through the
woods with the mended doll but he
had not gone very far before he heard
a voice saying
"Oh. Uncle Wiggily. I'm coId."
"da, Who is that2" asked the
bunny.
1t is I-Susie's talking doll" was
the answer please put me under
your coat and keep me warm"
i VIII. promised the bunny. and
he did, buttouing the talking. laugh
ing and singing doll under his warm
fur coat
Then the bunny went on a little
farther. and, all of a sudden. out from
behind briar bush jumped a bad old
scatchem animal a scatchem IS like
a skootchum or skitchem. except it
punches instead Of scratching or
tickling.
"Ah, ha," gurEled the scatchem- At
last / have caught you, Mr.. LOngears-
Now TO give you a good punch and
carry you off to my den"
"Oh, please DON'T begged the rab-
bit gentleman
Yes. shalt" snarled the scatchem.
and with that he drew back his paw
and gave Uncle Wiggily a hard
blow on his chest.
And then, all OF a sudden. some one
cried
Here. Stop that. Let Uncle WiggiIy
alOnel Get away from here, Look out
or I'll call the police, Ia, Hal Ha-
Oh, hol Oh. hoi Oh, no, Look out for
me or I'll take you, and send you off
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"Oh, my goodness me, sakes alive
and some peanut lolypOps- cried the
Scatchem. Who Is speaking like
hat" For he could see no one, and /
-ncle WiEgily wasn't saying a word. I
But the voice seemed TO come from I
away back inside the bunuy's fur I
,OaL
"Oh, this is magical It is wonder /
'uli I had better look out or III be I
into a cow cried the bad /
-nimaL
Then the Scatchera ran away, not 4
punching Uncle MigElly any more, 1
md the bunny took Susie's mended I
.ou safely home to her
And your doll talked and laughed /
nd sung, when the Scatchem punched T.
ne and that punch started her going F
nder my fur coat" said Uncle Wig f.
lily 10 susie Your doll saved me- I.
I'm glad said Susie. And guess E"
-e all are. And II the apple pie
oesn't stay playing out too late with ;
he piece Of cheese III tell you next u
bout Uncle Wiggily, and the plas-
Copyright 1917, by Mcclure
eWspaper Syndicate.