El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-04
Bedtime Story For The Little Ones
UNCLE WIGGILY AND SUSE'S SWEATER.
b. HOWARD R uARIS. ----u..


course they didn't know very much
! about casting up stitches, and purling
and adding on and narrowing off and
all things like that But they knew
a little. and they had knitted some
| socks for the animal soldiers that
I were fighting in the mosquito war
DO you know how TO knit Susie2'
] asked the lady mouse teacher Of the
/ little rabbit girl
! Nom. not very much, Susie
/ answered. And I'd like TO, so I
| could knit Uncle Wiggily a sweater,
and then he wouldn't care how cold it
Z was"
Bless your pink noser' said the
. lady mouse teacher. III teach you
I TO knit. and you can make a sweater
I for Uncle Miggily- think that
would be perfectly fine
oh. joy" cried Susie and her pink
nose twinkled almost as brightly as
the bunny uncle's-
So the lady mouse showed Susie
how TO knit. and a few days later the
little bunny girl had started a sweat
er for the old rabbit gentleman She
knit plain and she puzzled. she cast
on and she cast off Then she mar
rowed and widened and made stripes
and criss-crosses until the sweater
was finished.
OF course It was rather rough and
bumpy in spots. and not exactly
straight, but that did not matter II
was very warm and when Mr. Long1
ears put Il on for the first time and
went for a walk in the woods, he
didn't mind at all If Jack Frost had
dropped a peck Of icicles-
DO you like your sweater"
asked Susie
It's just dandy" said the bunny
uncle I hope 1 have an adventure
in it,
And he did He was wearing Su-
sizes sweater as he walked through
the woods. when, all Of a sudden a
bad old Zaggawasl1a. which IS an.
animal something like a Parallela-
pippedOn. only worse. stuck a claw
cut Of the bushes and grabbed the
bunny by the sweater Susie had so
kindly knit for Uncle Wiggily-
Il have you now" howIed the Tag
gawaska.
And really it did seem so. But
Uncle Wiggily was brave. He gave a
pull and a tug. to get away, and. sud
denly he found that ne was loose and I
could run The Zaggawasl1a no longer
seemed to hold him
On and on through the woods ran
the bunny farther and farther away |
from the Zaggawaska. and at last
Uncle Wiggily reached home to his
hollow stump bungalow
-Safe." cried the bunny. But how Z
did I do it,"
Then he looked down. His swes ter
was gone-au but a little narrow
band Of wool around his neck. and. I
stretching off through the woods was
a long string Of yarn
''Oh, myl" cried Uncle Wiggily. THE
Zaggawasla grabbed hold Of a loose
end Of yarn in Susie's sweater. and
unraveled it He unlimited my nice
sweater
And that's just what happened.
Susie's sweater was all pulled out.
but II that had not happened there Is
no telling what the Zaggawaska
might have done to the bunny But
Mr. Longears was safe and the Gag
gawaska was so mad that he rolled
the long string of wool up into a
ball and threw it away And It
landed right on the steps Of the hol-
low stump bungalow, where Uncle
Wiggily picked It up. And the next
day Susie knit him d new sweater.
So all was wei. you see. and II the
automobile doesn't run off by itself
and 80 to a picnic with the circus
balloon, III tell you next about IN
Gle Wiggily and the Polliwog.-Copy-
right 1918, by the Mcclure Newspaper
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