El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-01-10
Bedtime Story FOR the Little Ones
UNCLE wIGGILY AND THE FISHERMAN.
By HOWARD R. GARIS.

, more than four times a day. no matter
I what happens
| nothing when 1 had cast the nets N
| three times. at the fourth try L brOusht
up a big copper bottle. / opened IL ana
| a lot OF smoke came out The smohe
turned into a genie. or fairy as w
say in your country. but ne was a DaN
What did he do2" asked Uncle Wig
gily. all excited like. -
from having been smoke, went on u
fisherman. he said he was. going -, -
throw me into the ocean for having -
hin out of the bottle where ne i"'
pern so long smut IN she
Bless my pink nose crled w ~
bunny uncle Why did ne want u u1
that
genie. J guess" said the fisherman.
He told me that he had been turned
into smoke and shut up IN the botsls
because he didn't do what was ll5-t
and he said he made up ms minu, IL ~
along. that whoever pulled up me ~
tie from the bottom OF the sea az
opened # he would make HIM the flcH'
est man in the world -,..,7,-
.Bur as time went on and n2oouY
let him out the genie grew more anu
more angry. and finally he Salu M
he would throw into the ocean VINO
ever let him out He was gong 20
throw me i'm. but 7 played trick on
him pretended ] could not DellcNe
that such q big genie as he could ever
have been in the little bottle. 80 ne
turned into smoke again ana Wtit
hack into the bottle lust 10 show me
he could do il If he liked"
And what did you do asked Uncle
WfgCily. curious like
oh. no. / clapped the cork IN ths
bottle again as quick as wink ana
there 7 had the genie. for he couldn
push out the cork, though he could 90
almost everything else" the fisherman
'Then he begged me to be kind and
let him ont and when he promised 10
be good TO me and give me lots OF
~oney l took out the cork out poured
the smoke. which changed into a genie
And he was good and made me rich so
rich that 1 started 10 travel all over
the world Sindbad the Sailor told me
To come here. but now I'm here 1 don't
like it 7 can't find any water where
I can cast my nets and fish
No. this is winter now said Uncle
WigSily. and all the water is frozen
over But If you like. III lend YOU
mv airship and you can go back home.
"oh. thank you, That VIII be fine
cried the fisherman I'll go hack 70
my own country and come here when
so Uncle Wisgily brought out MS
q irShip- made from clothes basket
with toy balloons on and an electric
fan TO push il through the clouds, and
into thai the fisherman took his seat
on the sofa cushions. to go back to the
Arabian Nights country.
-Good-by. Uncle Wiggily" he called.
III leave YOU my bundle Use what
ever you find in 1t TO help any friends
o. yours who may be in trouble"
Thank you, I VIII, promised the
through the woods as the fisherman
sailed away in the airship. and the
bunny rabbit wondered what was in
-he bundle
A little while after this Uncle Wig
Sily went past the kennel house where
Jackie and Peetie Bow Bow. the puppy
log boys. and their mother and father
lived. And Uncle Wiggily saw that !
'eetie and Mr.. and Mrs. Bow-Wow |
we're at the second-story window. all !
eady 10 jump out for the fire was all I
below them
on. save Us. Uncle Wicgily, save /
Is, they cried. We're going 70 /
imp"
-'Oh. if you jump from the second !
tory window you'll be hurt said the 4
unny uncle "Oh. If only I had some 4
4 my airship sofa cushions for you 70 I
Jump on, But 7 let the fisherman take 3
hem Oh. dear
Then he happened to think OF the
undle the fisherman had given him
Maybe there's something In that
bought the bunny
quickly Uncle NlSglly opened the
ackage and in il was the fisherman's !
ct. which he had used TO haul up the
enie's bottle
Here" cried the rabbit. Jump into
his. dear BOw-Wows. and you will not
2 hurt. He spread the net out OF I
ONE bushes beneath the window. and
ust rs the fire was 50 hot that the
sOw-W Ovs could not stand II any +
onger they jumped into the fisher
mans net and weren't hurt al all. but ,
ounced Up and down like the man in {
he circus And the next day they )
loved into new house
So you see. the fisherman did some
God. after all with his net. AID II (
he automobile doesn't run down cellar !
q hide away from he trolley car play /
NJ tag with the jitnev bus. I'll tell I
gu next about Uncle WiEgily and Ali
"a ha--Copyright 1917. by Mcclure (
newspaper Syndicate