El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-05-18

URSE Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the
NJ muskrat lady housekeeper for
/ ~ Uncle wiggiIy Longears, the
rabbit gentleman, awakened in the
hollow stump bungalow one night as
she heard some one cry
"Oh. Nurse Jane, Save ne, save
mel Save me from the mosquitoes"
Up Jumped Nurse Jane and with her
night cap on her head. so she
wouldn't take cold. she looked out Of
her window. There she saw a dread
full sight Uncle wiggily Longears.
who was practicing At being a soldier.
and who had been keeping guard in a
little tent in front Of his bungalow.
was being carried off By the enemy
mosquitoes, as told you in the story
before this one
@Oh. my goodness me sakes alive
and some curl ex-cue hairpinsr cried
the muslrat lazy 7 must save Uncle
Wiggily. But how can I DO it, He is
being carried off through the air. and
I must follow him the same way But
@Hs. I have 1t. His sirship. If I
can only make II co.
Quickly Nurse Jane, the brave
Inuskrzt lady that she was. dressed
herself and went out in the old chick
en- coop where Uncle Wiggily kept his
airship. made of 4 japanese umbrella
with, toy circus balloons around the
edges. an electric fan in back and a
clothes basket filled with sofa cush-
ions TO sit on when the airshiD was
sailing.
.-Oh. II can only make It go. so
can fly through the air and get Uncle
Wiggiiy away from the mosquitoesi"
cried Nurse Jane But she did not
know much about airships. and morn
ing came before she had even got the
electric fan started Then along came
Johnnie Bushytail. the boy squirrel
who was working for a milkmzn.
leaving bottles of cream at the homes
Of TIE animal folk of Woodland.
What's the matter, Nurse Jane?'
asked Johnnie on his early morning
trip Are you going away in Uncle
Wiggily's airship2@
7 only wish I were" cried the
Enuskrat lady. ~Oh, q dreadful thing
has happened Johnnie. Uncle Wiggily
has been taken away by the mosquito
enemy, and ] want TO 20 save him He
called 10 me to do it but ] can't run
the airship
But I cam cried the squirrel boy.
I've often ridden with him in IL and
in the automobile, too I'll run II
Hop in.'
but what abont-the milk and cream
you have 10 deliver"
i
get my brother Billie 10 do IL" said
the squirrel boy. Hop in"
So nurse Jane, putting in the airship
q few things to eat from the kitchen.
in case she and Johnnie had TO 90
without breakfast got in the afrship
Johnnie Started the electric fan and d
then up toward the clouds ne steered
the airsnip by the baby carriage wheel
which was in the front part of che
clothes basket
On and on and on flew the squirrel
boy and the muskrar lady But.
though they kept their eyes. wide
open they saw no sign OF Uncle Wig
gily whom the mosquitoes had carried
away.
At last, however. the airship flew
over a big swamp Johnnie BuShytail
looked down and cried.
Here. IL anywhere the mosquitoes
viii be. This is where they camp in
the daytime, and at night they come
out 10 bite Maybe they have Uncle
Wiggily a prisoner here"
Let's 20 down and see" said Nurse
But we must be careful about it,
Whispered Johnnie IF the NOS
quitoes see US they'll bite holes in the
circus balloons OF our airship, and
We,l fan down
THAT would be dreadful cried
Nurse Jane. Let's hide"
So Johnnie stsered the airship down
behind some trees on the far edge OF
the swamp, and then hiding the clothes
basket, balloons and so on back OF
some bushes TIE squirrel hoy and the
Icusirar lady crept softly on Soon
they saw the mosquito camp. and there
in il, surely enough, was poor Uncle
X iggily 3 prisoner
oh. they've made a cook OF him. .
said Nurse Jane and so the mos
quitos had They had taken away
Uncle Wigsily's red. white and blue
stripped rheumatism crutch. and his
tail silk hat. and given him a white
apron and a white cap. And there he
had to stay cockirg the meals for the
mosquito army
He was a prisoner. and Il he had
tried 10 get away about seventeen
hundred millions OF the bad biting
bugs would have bitten him at once. so
he didn't dare run
~Oh deariT sighed Uncle Wiggily
and Johnnie and the muskrat lady.
hidden behind the bushes. heard him.
-Oh, dear! II only Nurse Jane would
come and rescue me now"
I'm here, but how can I save aim -
asked Nurse Jane.