El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-11

- - OOD-64s HAASo ~e-i~-
by" called Uncle Wiggily
~ Lonzears, the rabbit gentle
man, 10 Miss Fuzzy wuzzy, MS musk
rat lady housekeeper, one morning,
as he hoped off the front steps OF
his hollow stump bungalow, with his
red. white and blue striped rheuna-
tism crutch folded mp inside his tail
silk hat. eGood-byi"
~cood-by." answered Nurse Jane.
and hope you have nice aoVen-
THANKS. wish you the same,
Answered Uncle WiEgily, ana away
he went over the fields and through
the woods. He had not hoped very
Ear. looking this way and tnat. pc
fore, all OF 8 sudden. came 70 a queer
little place, near an old ran renee
DoIrn IN one corner was q hole, part
y underground - I'll
viTgiix 10 himself. That looks just
ike the kind Of an underground
house. or burrow, wnere l usse II
made nv home before / moved TO the
hollow stump bungalow / must
take a look. Nurse Jane would IKE
TO hear all about It ~.
So Uncle Wiggily, folding back ms
ears in order that Iney E xa no crs1S 81
ing down the rabbit hole, for tnat IS
what It really was .,-
uncle did not mind that, being abs
to see in the dark. Besides, ne coulo
make his pink nose twinkle Wnen ne
wanted to, and this gave allHoS1 -
much light as q FREELY. ?
ssNo this isn't the OurroW Nlere 1
used TO live" said Uncle Wigg1iy 10
himself. when he had hoped quite q
distance into the hole. BuL iEs VEL eds
nice. Perhaps / may nave an au
venture here. Who knoTsT
And. lust as he said that TO nm
self Uncle Wiggily saw. lying unoer
little table. in what seemed 70 De d
room in the underground mousse
small glass box .,,, I'D
T-ucle WigefIy. III open that glass
box and see what is In it. 49,,
So the bunny uncle raised the
coSer. and in the glass box was s
little cake, made Of carrots and cap-
baxe. and on TOD. spelled out in PINK
raisins, were the words;
ssHat That's lust what III DO!
cried Jolly Uncle Wigglly, anu never
stopping TO think anything might De
wrong, the bunny gentleman ate the
cake. And then. all OF . SUDDEN ne
began 10 feel very funny.
COR. u,yf" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily.
T hone that cake didn't belong 10 my
nephew. Sammie Littletaiis or John
ME or Billie Bushytai1. the squirrel
brothers. One of them may have lost
il out Of his lunch basket on his
v-ay to school. hope II wasn't any OF
their cake. But there is surely some
thing funny about it. for 1 feel so
And no wonderi For Uncle Wiggily
had suddenly begun to grow very
large. His ears grew taller, SO tnst
thew lifted his tall silk hat right OH
his head His legs seemed as long as
bean poles. and as for his whiskers
and pink, twinkling nose, they seem
ed so far away from his eyes that ne
wondered II he would ever get them
near enough 70 see to comb the one,
or scratch the other. when It felt
This is certainly remarkable"
cried Uncle Wiggily. Il wonder what
made me grow so large all of sud
den. Could it have been the cake
which gave me the indyspepsiaZ
ut was the caker" cried sudden
and buzzing voice, and, looking
around the hole Uncle W1ggily saw
a big mosquito 1T was the cake
mat made you grow big" went on
the bad biting bug, and put II mere
what forg' asked the bunny uncle,
puzzled like
$50 you would grow so big that
YOU couldn't get out OF this hole
was the answer. And now you can't!
This is how I have caught youl Hat
Har and the mosquito buzzeo q most
unpleasant laugh