El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-01


tent Then you'll have a nice shade
and still there viii be plenty of room
Tor you to see the mosquitoes il the
come
Fine cried Uncle Wiggilv. max
! ing his pink nose twinkle like tn,
END OF an ice cream cone. That vii
| be just lovelyi"
Toodle and Noodle, the beaver bows
said they would be glad to plant :
I tree in front Of Uncle Wiggily's tent
( They got some other beaver bows tc
help them, and uproOted a big hors,
chestnut that grew near the edge OF
the beaver pond.
Beavers don't very often uprooi
( trees They gnaw them down with
their big teeth, orange colOred. which
are almost as strong as A carpenters
chisels.
And when the tree was planted in
front Of Uncle Wiggilys tent it be-
gan to grow, for the beaver BOYS
sprinkled it with water from the
pond.
Eyes. It is certainly nice to sit in
the shade Of the tree instead of in
the hot sun, spoke the bunny uncle
as he marched up and down. with his
talcum powder bean shooting pop-
gun over his shoulder. Nurse Jane
was very kind to think of it."
1T would be a good thing If you
could climb up the tree, Uncle Wig
gily." said Jollie Longtail, the mouse
boy. who stopped at the bunny uncle's
soldier camp on his way home from
school.
Why" asked the bunny
Because then you could look far
off and see the mosquitoes long be-
fore they reached here" spoke Jollie.
The tree would be like a light house
tower for you"
so it wouldt' cried Uncle wiggily
But I can't climb tree and never
could
Il can fix It so you cam" cried a
new voice. and there stood JACKIE
Kinkytail. the monkey boy TIL make
a little ladder for you from a wild
grape vine, fasten one end on the
ground and the other end up in the
tree and you can go up and down
like on the stairs said Jacko.
That will be great" cried Uncle
Wiggily. It's fun being up a tree"
But just you wait and see what
It did not take JACKIE Kinkytail
long to make the ladder out Of the
wild grapevine. He did not use the
very widest parts, for, if he had. the
vine might have tried TO jump about
or stand on its head, playful like,
and that would have made Uncle Wig
gily fall
So Jacko used the tamest parts Of
the wild grape vine. and soon Incle
Wiggily could climb the tree
After that, when he was marching
up and down on guard in front OF
his tent. and he happened to feel
sleepy. he would just hop up lnro
the tree instead Of lying down to take
q nap. And in this way ne coulo
tell when the bad army mosquitoes
were coming from their swamp
Every day Uncle Wiggily drilled
the animal boys in how TO carry their
Droomstick guns and how TO be sol
diers. They came after school, ano
one afternoon when the bunny rabnlt
gentleman was waiting for them he
felt himself getting sleepy
Hal 1 guess III climb up IN the
tree" he said. That will keep me
awake, and I can also see if any OF
the mosquito army is coming after
So Mr.. Longears climbed up the
zrapevine ladder. He looked off to-
ward the mosquito swamp, but ne
saw none of the bad, biting bugs, and
then. as he came to a soft place on
one of the tree branches he sat down
There were some prlcklT morse l
,hestnut burrs on the tree, but they
we're not vet ripe, though the prickers
N them were sharp and stir But
Jncle Wiggily did not sit on any OF
hem
Pretty soon Il was SO warm and
onfortable up in the tree that the /
abbit gentleman fell asleep. Fast 4
sleep he fell-not falling out OF the
rec. though, you understand-and
lille he slept some mosquitoes saw
ssHa. Now is our chance to get that
-ncle Wiggiiy Lonzears rabbitl'
uzzed the mosquitoes. wen tickle
i'm on his pink, twinkling nose, and {
ell sneeze and fall down out of
he tree. And when he falls he'll be
o stunned and not able to move that
re can easily pick him up in our
ills and fly away with him"
So the mosquitoes buZZed straight
OF UrcIe Wiggily. asleep Up in the
rec. But the mosquitoes did not see
he sharp, prickly horse chestnut
urrs, and as they flew against them
he burrs stuck the bad biting bugs
n their legs. wings and bills. and II
ras the mosquitoes themselves who
neezed and fell out OF the tree n
But. of course, falling didn't hurt /
hem, as they had wings, but they /
lsde so much noise that Uncle Wig ,
ily was awakened and. seeing the I
losuuits Gas 1 call them for short),
2 fired his talcum powder gun al
hem and drove them all away
Then the bunny came down his {
sme wild grapevine ladder, glad in
eed that he had a tree near his tent
nd If the rag doll doesn't take the
I'd cheeks Of the apple to make her-
IN look pretty for the moving pic
1res. I'll tell you next about Uncle
VigEily and the snsiL-(Copyright
az. by Mcclure Newspaper Syndi-
ate)