El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-15
0edt1me Story For the Little Ones
UNCLE w1GGnY AND MR. SHARP NOSE.

here so you could give him jam tart
cakes-I mean give the little boy
cakes answered Uncle Wiggily.
Yes, L know" said Nurse Jane
thoughtful like. "Ha, Hunt Mr.. Sharp
Nose, Ell? And he wants 10 see you at
once. Do you know. Wiggy, I wouldn't
80 II / were you"
4 was thinking the same thing my
self said the rabbit gentleman.
Don't you remember" went on the
muskrat lady. how this same fox man
used TO chase you with the skiliery-
scalery alligator who had bumps on his
tail?-
Yes" went on Uncle Wiggily, but
the fox, the alligator, the nose-pinching
babbc0n and the tail-pulling monkey
8 bother me any more. So I'll go see
guess"
Il wouldn't" said Nurse Jane.
7 shalt" said Uncle Wiggily. 1T
will be an adventure for me at all
events" And then, putting on his tall
silk hat and taking his red. white and
blue striped rheumatism crutch, off
started the rabbit gentleman through
the woods and over the fields
oh. dear" cried Nurse Jane Fuzzy
Wuzzy when he had gone. I just
know something dreadful viii happen
TO him. I'm going 10 call up DR.. Pos
sum"
So the muskrat lady housekeepsr
called the animal doctor on the tele-
phone, saying
"Oh, DR.. Possumi Uncle wiggily has
gone to call on Mr.. Sharp Nose. the fox,
and when my bunny comes back I
know he'll be all scratched and bitten
and clawed and kerflummoxed. So
please be ready to come right over TO
the bungalow with your powder pills,
plasters and bitter medicine"
7 will" promised DR.. Postum.
Uncle Wiggily kept on hopping
through the fields and woods, and
pretty soon he came within sight Of
the house where Mr. Sharp Nose. the
fox lived.
Now I'll Just hide here behind this
stump said the rabbit gentleman, and
watch a bit before I go in It may be
that, even though he did promise not
TO hurt me. that this fox has changed
his mind, and il is only a trap to catch
me-"
So Uncle Wiggly hid and watched
and waited. and he saw no one going
in or coming out of the fox house. and
then. all of : sudden il began to rain.
Oh, how hard 1t rained, and Uncle Wig
gily had brought no umbrella. and there
were no tOadstOols be could fasten on
his rheumatism crutch to make a para
sol and he was getting wet through,
and he didn't know what to do. for
there were not yet enough leaves on
the trees to make a shelter. when. all
Of a sudden, out of the fox house came
7
q big umbrella
oh, Uncle Wiggily" ne cried. Come
IN in out Of the wet. I saw your big
2ars from the window, sticking up be-
hind the stump. and I came to get you"
We'll" thought Uncle Wiggly to q
himself, II might as well get scratched I
by a fox as to get soaked through with I
the rain and have rheumatism pains. 4
I'll go with him"
So he hurried along with the fox boy
nrfa faF-nn 10 hnrn he
reached the fox house, Mr. Sharp Nose (
shook paws with the bunny uncle and 4
cried most jolly like;
oh. I'm so glad to see youi I was 50 ;
afraid you wouldn't comet 7 couldn't
explain in my note, but I want you !
To-"
please don't say you want to bite
me-" begged Uncle Wiggily, sort of
trembling like
Hal Ha,' laughed the fox. Not the
east in the world. My biting days for
you are over. No, I sent to ask IL you
would come and give my little boy les
sons in table manners and politeness. !
He Is so much better since YOU taught |
lin that jam tart lesson after he threw |
stones at you. that I'm sure you can
ielp him much more Teddy was bad /
hen. but I'm sure you can teach him
o be good"
Murray" cried Teddy Sharp Nose, |
he fox boy Then Uncle WigEily prom
sed to come next day and give Teddy I
/ lesson with the table knife as start
n politeness- So nothing sad happened
o Uncle Wiggily at the fox house. and I
,Ir. Sharp Nose took the bunny home I
through the rain under an umbrella /
And when Nurse Jane saw Uncle Wig
sily all safe, and not even scratched.
he had to laugh. thinking what she
lad told DR.. Possum. And DR.. Postum
,ut away his powders. pills and bitter
and laughed too.
And If the hot water faucet dOesn
'reeze so the cook can't draw a choco-
ate soda from the lemonade pitcher,
7ou shall next hear Of Uncle Wiggily
nd the knife