El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-08
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
UNCLE wIGGILY AND THE TIN CAN.
~ HOWARD II. EhRIs.

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That's rightr' buzzed a mosquito
with green spots on her wings, which
I showed that she liked to dance the
gentlemen Lets all get together
and think Of a way to catch Uncle
Wiggily"
I'VE Bin.' buzzed the rest OF the
mosquitoes. and then along came fly
ing the head captain lady OF them
where have you been?" the others
asked her.
From laying eggs in an old toma-
TO can full OF water, which a foolish
woman left near her back stoop."
was the answer. IN that old can
viii soon have Matched out a lovely
brood Of young mosquitoes and they
will buzz into that woman's house.
and bite her and her baby and all
the family. On, I am always on the
lookout for old tin cans. I tell youi"
''Whoop de-doole-dol' suddenly
cried the mosquito with green spots
on her wings. "Hoi Hoi Now I know
how to do it."
DO what? Dance the elephant iig2'
asked the lady captain mosquito.
NO but when you spoke of the
old tin can II gave me an idea. Why
can't a lot Of US fly over toward
Uncle Wiggily's soldier tent some
tin cans lying around. where he has
thrown them after eating what was
in them. We can hide in the tin can,
and roll II toward the trench-ditch
where he marches up and down with
his talcum powder pop gun on his
shoulder"
'And then what2' asked the lady
captain mosquito.
Then, when we're hidden in the
tin can, and it has been rolled up
near enough 10 Uncle Wiggily, we
VIII suddenly jump out and grab
him before he can tickle US with his
bean bag bullets"
--Good.| cried the lady captain mos
quito. 'We'u do It"
But when, a little later, a shipping
spying MOSQUITO flew, casual-like
around Uncle Wiggily's tent and hol-
low stump bungalow, TO look for a
tin can, ne had to come back to the
swamp and say:
There isn't an empty can around
the placei Not one to hold a drop
must be laid The muskrat Nurse
Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy must be a good
housekeepeer to keep empty cans
away from aer door"
She is" said the lady captain NOS
quito. But never mind. Wen take
q can with US and hide in that. We
must catch Uncle Wiggilyi"
So. finding a can around the back
steps Of a housekeeper who was not
as careful as Nurse Jane, about a
million Mosquitoes carried It one night
close to Uncle Wiggily's soldier tent
near where he stayed on guard be-
cause he was at war with the enemy.
The next evening, just as II was
getting dark, about sixteen-eleven
billion million mosquitoes flew up
from their swamp and hid in the
empty, tin can, Then by twisting
their legs and flittering their wings
rhey began to roll 1t toward the rab- !
bit gentleman's tent, and when II
got near enough they would pop out
and grab him
So the can fun OF mosquitoes be
gan slowly rolling along down a little 4
hill toward the tent
Now about this time Johnnie and I
Billie Bushytal. the two Squirrel 4
boys; Sammie Littletail. the rabbit /
chap and Jackie and Peetie Bow Wow,
he puppy dogs, came along with /
heir popgunS on their shoulders hay-
earning to be soldiers, lessons about
which the bunny gentleman gave
hem every day after school.
"Oh, Uncle WiggiIyi" cried Billie.
VIII you let US shoot our guns just
nce2 We haven't fired them this
vening, and we need little target
ractfce.
"AlI right" said Mr.. Longears. I'VE
i'll all do a little shooting. Let me
&c, what shall we take for a mark2"
nd he got his own pop6un ready
There's tin can over there" said
annie LittletaiL Cant we shoot at
aat?7
''Ha, What's that? A tin CAM"
ried Uncle Wiggily. 'T did not know
Te had any on the place I must Z
ell Nurse Jane about It, for Il it
cts full Of water and mosquitoes
ay eggs IN it there viii be million
lore to bite US.
$50 all ready, animal soldier boysl .
AXE good aim at that tin can, and
boot hard and straight Ready :
axe aimi Firer I
With that Uncle Wiggily and his
Dung soldiers fired their talcum
owder popguns. shooting hard bean I
ag bullets at the tin can in which {
he mosquitoes had hidden. though /
he bunny did not know that t
'.Bangi Bingi Bungi" ratified the i
can bullets on the can. Some made Y
oles in it and some went in the I
ut open top. The bean bullets hit
he mosquitoes on their toes and
heir noses and on their biting bills. I
"Oh, wowi" buzzed the bad biting (
ugs- I'VE made another mistake" q
SO we did" buzzed the head lady '
aptain mosquito. But who would i
ave supposed that they would use e
Ut can. in which we were hiding, [
or a gun target2 Oh, deari" II
Then those mosquitoes who could q
till fly buzzed their way back to the q
Waup, so they didn't get Uncle Wig Z
lily that time, either.
And If the gold fish doesn't reach &
p and bite the wax dolls nose when Q
he is leaning over and trying to i
each him how to spell cat" I'll tell /
on next about Uncle Wiggily and I
he bat-Copyright 1917, by Mcclure U
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