El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-05-22
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE APPLE DUMPLIEGS.
BY HOWARD r. GARIS.=~@

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cried Uncle wiggily. In the first
second place they are green and viii
make you I'll so you can't fight In
the mosquito battles
But 1 will buy come OF the green
apples from the monkey farmer who
owns them, and I'll cook them in
dumplings Tor you. so they viii not
hurt you. Halt here, everybody, until
1 20 buy some of the dumping APP
apples, said the bunny rabbit
So Capt Uncle Wiggily, as I VIII
call him once in while with his
bean shooter gun on his shoulder,
vent TO buv some Of the green APP
pies, coming back with his tail SILK
hat quite full of them.
viii they be enoughE' asked sam
ME Littletail.
"Oh, yes" Uncle Wiggily answered.
Il don't have to soak these in water
as / did the rice, and make twice as
much OF il as I need 1 have seen
Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy,E musk
rat lady housekeeper, make apple
dumplings, and full well I know how
II is done I'll make some as soon as
we get back to camp, ana wen nave
them for dinner"
So. after a little march about with
his animal soldier boy friends, Uncle
Wiggily came back to his tent near
the hollow stump bungalow and be-
Z
First he mixed up some Ilo-sr,
water. sugar, butter. eggs and other
things into crust like that for pies.
only different While he was doing
I this the animals boys were practlc-
ing with their bean shooters OUTSIDE.
Then when he had the dumping
parts made and ready 70 go into the
oven Uncle Wiggily took the green
apples out of his tall silk hat, which
I held almost a rabbit bushel
Let me see. now" said the bunny
uncle thoughtfully TO himself, Il
think II is now time to put the apples
/ in the dumplings. Then TO bake them
and they will be ready TO eat!
So into the dough- dumping part
Z the bunny uncle rabbit gentleman puI
the apples, and into the over Of the
/ soldier ten he popped them Then he
sat down to wait until they were
It did not take very long. for the
Z fire was hot. and soon there was q
most delicious smell, Ike talcum
! powder. only nicer. Uncle Nigglly
! shifted It and, taking g peep in the
oven at the dumplings. and finding
! them wen baked and done, he pulled
them out TO cook
They were just about ready TO eat;
and the bunny was going to taste OF
one and then call in his solder ooy
[ animal friends, when, all at once
I into the tent popped a bad fox. who
was 8 sort Of general over all the
aAh ha." snarled the fox shifting
the air. 4 was not mistaken.
I'm try oneT And he reached his
paw for the largest one on the pan
I 90! You must noti" said Uncle
! Wiggily. Those are for my brave
mosquito fighting soldiers.
What care II barked the fox. IN.
different like. and with that he biz
into an apple dumping.
! But no sooner had he done so than
he spluttered and coughed and ne had
the hiccoughs and tears came into hi:
eyes as he rushed out OF the tent
after a drink Of water. crying;
Hum Do you call those 1T u
J eat2 I don't" and away he ran. hav
ing eaten but one dumping. and tina
I wonder what is the matter witt
I them2" Uncle Wiggily asked Nurse
j Jane, who came in the tent Just then
The muskrat lady looked az IN
dumplings and laughed
why Wfggyi" she cried Z on Tor
got to take the cores out OF the ap
pies, and the fox choked on the hard
scratchy part with the seeds in fol
must take the cores OF OF apples
aHal knew I had forgotten some
thing" said the bunny Well it's
good thing I did, otherwise the 1o1
would have eaten them all
So Nurse Jane, with a sharp knife
took the cores out OF the apples
while they were still IN the dump
llings, and the animal boy soldier
then ate them. saying they were
fire.
on its head and try to peel \ busne
of soap bubbles in the parlo-. I'll tel
Won next about Uncle Wiggily and IN
cIothes.-Copyright 1917, by McClur
Newspaper Syndicate