El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-07-19
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
UNCLE wIGGILY AND THE oRIoLE BIRD.
l1IlRD r. GARIS,

his tail silk hat Then he hoped on
TO get the sugar
The monkey doodle who kept the
store put the sweet sugar IN a paper
bag for Uncle Wiggly, and the rab-
bit gentleman was going carefully
along on his way back 20 his hollow
stump bungalow, wondering what
sort of a cake Nurse Jane was going
to bake, when. all Of a sudden, the
bunny heard from behind him q rat
tie and Whizz of wheels. and a voice
called;
Look out, Uncle Wisgily-"
But then it was too late TO look
out, or look in either, FOR slap.
Bang riEht into the bunny gentle
man ran Sammie LittleLail, the rab-
bit boy, who was riding down the
street on his roller skate sidewalk
coaster wagon
-Oh, dear cried Sammie. and well
might he say that. For he had up
set Uncle WiEgl-g, knocking down the
old rabbit gentleman, tossing his tall
silk hat one way and the bag of sugar
the other. And the bag burst and the
sugar spilled out all over the side
walk
ION. my" cried Uncle WiggiIy. his
pink nose tWiukling so fast that il
looked like an electric sign in front
Of a barber shop. "On, my What
viii Nurse Jane say2'
we won't have to tell her If we
can scoop Up the sugar again, Uncle
MiEgi.y." said Sammie, getting of
the sidewalk scooter and beginning
TO brush Up the sweet, white grains
OF sugar Maybe We can save most
OF b. and you can buy little more
and Nurse Jane won't know a thing
about it,
But what are we going to nut the
sugar in2' asked the bunny rabbit
gentleman The paper bag is burst"
We can put some in your tall silk
hat and some In my pockets" spoke
Sammie-
So the rabbit boy began TO help Tn
Gle Wigglly brush up and pick up the
sugar. They put some IN the tall silk
hat But alas, 1t all ran out again,
for there were holes in Uncle Wig
gI-y's hat to give air to his Whiskers,
and from these holes the sugar
poured
Never mind, Ny pockets viii hold
the sugar said Sammie But alack-
a-day- they would not, for they, too,
holes in them
"Oh, what shall we do2 What can
We put the spilled sugar in2" asked
Uncle " lgEily- Il guess III have 10
go back 70 the store for another bag"
"Oh. no, You won't have TO do that"
said a soft voice in the air over his
head, and there fluttered the mother
Oriole bird I'll let you take nv old
longer needs, for a sugar bag" said
the oriole- And, what is more, we
birds. with our bills just made for
picking up crumbs, VIII help pick Up
the grains Of sugar"
SO the mother and father oriole
binds and the little oriole birds. and
even the lady bug picked up Uncle
Wiggily's spilled sugar, putting 1t.
in the hanging bag nest, which the
oriole bird brought down out Of the
tree for Uncle WiEEily- The nest
held the sugar. not letting a grain
SPILL and when Uncle WiEEily
brought II 10 Nurse Jane, she said.
'N hat funny sugar bags they are
using at the store now"
But Uncle WiEEily twiukIed his
nose and never said a word. So ev-
erything came out all right. YOU see
and II the lawn mower doesn't cut
the tops off the milk bottles So the
rain SHOWS in them. I'll tell YOU next
about Uncle Wiggily and the snipe-
Copyright. 1917, by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.