El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-07-02
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
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well. 7 don't call that very nice. %
] said the Mock Turtle. Here she's
] gone and mixed up the seven times
] table with the three times six. and
] goodness knows when I'll ever set
I them Strengthened out again.
I'm sorry called Alice waving
her hand as she rode off with Uncle
WiEEily- 'Tu help you when 7 come
/ back"
"And IT'D help too promised the
bunny uncle.
Nr. L0uE-ars and Wonderland Alice
rode over the fields and through the
woods and they were having a fine
time when, all OF q sudden. as the
j automobile came near place where
p some oak trees grew In "a thick cluster
Alice cried
"Hark- They're nghtiuE"
Who asked Uncle WiEEiIv.
please don't tell me ir is the mos
quito enemy after me 10 bite me"
NO. its the Lion and the Unicorn"
Alice answered. Don't YOU remember
how it goes i'm my book
The Lion and the Unicorn were
fighting for the Crown.
The Lion bear the Unicorn all around
the town
Some gave them white bread. some
gave them brown
And then the funny Unicorn jumped
right up and down
That last line isn't just right" eE-
planned Alice TO the bunny uncle. -but
] coulldn' c properly think Of il. I'm so
'.Friehtenode At what@' asked
Uncle WigEily-
at the Unicorn answered Alice.
Here he comes" and as she said that.
Ike horse, with a big long horn
sticking out OF the middle OF his
head straight i'm front of him, gallop-
ing our Of the clump of trees.
Murray I beat him. cried the Uni
corn Come on now. quick. I must get
away from here before they catch
me-
You beat him? DO sou mean beat
the Lion-' asked Uncle WiEgily for
he was not frightened as was Alice
sure I beat him answered the
Unicorn, as he jumped into the back
seat Of the automobile Drive on he
ordered Just as II the bunny uncle .
gentleman were the c0achman-
Did you beat him very hard, with F.
a brOomstck2" asked Alice. putting +
cut her head from behind Uncle Wig /
Eily's tall silk hat where she had hid F.
cen herself
Beat him with a broomsticke Ha, /
HO- I should say uOt,' laughed the .
Unicorn Were too Jolly good friends .
for that and he spoke like an Eng
ilsh chap I beat him playing hop .
scotch and Jack-srraws- I was two .
hops and three straws ahead Of him
when / stepped and ran away because .
they were after me-
Who were after youe' asked Alice. /
The lions friend2'
''No. the straws that show which
way the wind blows When the wind .
blows the straWs against me they
tickle. and can't bear TO be tickled. }
m worse than q soap bubble that +.
way SO I ran 10 get IN the auto I .
hope you don't mind and the Unicorn
leaned back on the seat cushions
'Aiind2 Not I'm the least cried Tn
Gle NlEgly- u IN glad to give you a
ride with Alice and he made the auto .
60 very fast. On. and on they went.
over the fields and through the woods F.
and then all Of sudden. out from
behind tree jumped the big sl-ilery-
-calery alligator walking on his hind
legs and the end Of his double jOiuted
Halt he cried. like a sentry sol
der, and Uncle WiEEily stopped the
auto. AT last I have caught YOU"
SAID the ALL sa-or In a nutmeg crater I
sort or voice II want you Uncle
NiEEilv. and thar Alice also As for
FOUR friend iu the back seat he may
"Oh. may - Thank y0u,~ cried the ,
nlcOrn- and with that he leaned for
yard. And as she did so the long
harp horn in his head reached over
-ucle WiEgily's shoulder, and began J
O tickle the alligator right under his 7
oft ribs
ooh. stop stop it. tell your gig
-led the gator. stop tickling met
md he laughed and WiEgled and q
Cuirmed like an aukleWorm going
stop, Stop he begged
Il viii when you let my friends q
-ucle WigEily and Alice. alone" said {
he Unicorn stiu tickling away
"Yes- Yesl III let them alone
.romised the alligator, and he laughed
mil the tears ran down his tail And
hen he had to run off by himself
trough the woods, and so he didn't
ret the bunny uncle nor Wonderland
.lice either. And he never could have
often the Unicorn, because Of his
1uE. ticzlish horn.
SO it is simetimes a good thing TO
axe one Of these chaps along when
-ou 90 for an automobile ride. And
{ the skyrOcket doesn't fall down and
tub its nose when IL tries to jump
ver the moon III tell you next about
-ncle WiEgilv and Humpty Dumpty.-
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