El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-05-12
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE HOT SUN.
AZ HOWARD r. GARIs

{ they are not large enough for me"
Uncle Wiggily said. However, I'll
put on a thinner fur coat and then
III be all right"
Soon he hoped on and the toad
lady hoped on, but all the while the
sun kept shining down hotter and
/ hotter, until at last the rabbit gentle
man took of his tall silk hat
Aren't you afraid Of getting sun
struck asked a little butterfly girl
who was flittering TO the store to
get a drop OF honey for her fathers
dinner.
"Oh, no." answered the bunny IN
/ Gle. Il always 20 bareheaded in sum
mer. It makes my hair grow"
But soon it grew too hot for Uncle
through the woods and over the fields
looking for an adventure.
Il think I'll go back to- my hollow
stump bungalow" said Mr.. Longears,
'and eat some cold cherry pie That
ought to make me feel better"
But when ne reached his bungalow
he found it just as warm there from
the hot sun. Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuz-
", the muskrat lady housekeeper, was
sitting out in the side yard. tanning
herself with a burdock weed leaf tied
to her tail.
'Oh. this is very hotl" she said
Very" agreed Uncle Wiggily.
And the rabbit gentleman sort Of
sank down on the steps, and his pink
nose hardly twinkled at all, while
Nurse Jane. seeing him, cried:
why, Wiggy, how i'll you looki
Has anything happenedZ"
II guess was out in the hot sun
too much without my hat on" he
said. 1T was stronger than thought"
the muskrat lady. "Oh, that Is too
badi I must send for DR.. Possum at
oneeF'
DR.. Possum said Uncle wiggily was
touched a little by the sun. and told
Nurse Jane that the bunny must be
put him to bed in a shady room
and keep rags wet in cold water on
his head" said DR.. Postum -
But the sun shone so hot on the hol-
low stump bungalow that no room was
very cool The sun seemed 10 come
in every window. and there was not
cloud in the sky TO make it partly
dark
sOh. for some cool shade like the
woods" sighed Uncle Wiggily- And
Just then il seemed as If the sun sud
denly grew cooler. It did not shine
down so glarily and misty shadow
seemed to cover the hollow stump
bungalow.
''Oh, it is clouding up" said Nurse
Jane But when she looked out
little way she still saw sunshine But
the bungalow was in the cool shad-
ows, and then the surprised muskrat
lady saw what caused It
Over the roof were held about for
ty 'leven sixteen twenty one toadStools,
making a big umbrella, that kept off
all the sun so Uncle Wiggily would
be in the shade and keep cool And
holding the toadstools over the bun
galoW were a lot Of toads, among
them being Mrs. Hip-Hop.
Uncle Wiggily did me such favor.
getting me out OF the log crack" his
toad lady said, that I want tn felp
him. So my friends and I picked the
biggest toadstools we could find, Snu,
by holding them together this way.
We can cover the bungalow roof shd
keep off the hot sun. Wen hold
them, there until Uncle Wiggily ge-s
WELL
So they did, the toads not miading
the hot sun a bit. and the toadstools
didn't either. And that night Uncle
Wiggily cooled off and was all bet
ter.
So this teaches US that even a toad
may be OF some use in this world, and
II the rocking herse doesn't run over
the rubber ball and make IL squeak
like a tack hammer sliding down the
window pane I'll tell you next about
Uncle Wiggiiy and tie flag.-Copy-
right 1917. by Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.