El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-06
Bedtime Story for the Little Ones
UNCLE wIGGIG AND THE PEANUT BUTTER

there, sure enough, stood the ele-
plant.
"oh, I couldn't afford to eat pea
pensive like. I only sell them to rich
rabbit gentlemen like yourself, and
then 1 buy hay. Please buy my pea
nutsl" he begged
All right. will" said Uncle Wig
gily.
quarts and a pint" said the elephant,
quickly dishing the peanuts with his
trunk out of a valise on his back, and
dumping them in the middle Of the
bungalow floor. That's all I have
left Buy them and 1 can go home
to my wife and little boy and take
them a million pounds of hay"
"All right, I will" said kind Uncle
Wiggily. So he paid the circus ele-
plant for the peanuts and the big
creature went thankfully away, leav-
ing the peanuts in heap on the
bungalow floor.
Ny goodness me sakes alive and
Iollypop sandwich" though Mr.. Long
ears when the elephant had gone.
That's an awful lot Of peanutsl /
wonder why I let him sell me so
many? I DON in the world know
what to do with them. Nurse Jane
will surely say I'm foolish to have
taken such lot What can do?
think and he said:
Il knowi I can make peanut butter
OF them, I can grind 4 lot of peanuts
up into peanut butter and they won't
take up hardly any room at all That's
what I'll do!
eTIl grind these peanuts up in the
coffee grinder and make them into
butter. I can hide the butter away
in glass Jars and bring a little out at
a time. Then Nurse Jane won't laugh
at me for buying SO many peanuts OF
the elephant at once" thought Mr..
No sooner said than done. Uncle
Wiggily got the coffee grinder, and.
screwing it up tight, to make II as
fine as he could. he began shelling
the peanuts. and putting the kernels
in the hopper. or top part. Then he
turned the handle, Just as an organ
grinder monkey would, and out OF the
lower end of the grinder came the
nice peanut butter 80.
"Ah. I guess know how 10 do it."
said Uncle Wiggily with a laugh
He kept on Smelling the peanuts
putting the shucks out on the back
porch, and letting the brown butter
from the kernels run into glass jars,
until at last all the peanuts were
ground up.
Then Nurse Jane came back from
Mrs. Wibblewobble's and when she
started to get supper Uncle Wiggily
DO you like peanut butter. Nurse
why, yes" she said. Il do"
well, here's some I made today
tra-la-la," said careless like and sing
song style. Il bought a few peanuts
Of a circus elephant and I ground
them up-ho-ho-hum" and he handed
out a Jar Of the butter.
That was very kind Of you" said
Uurse Jane, and then she looked out
on the back porch. and she saw pile
of shucks from the peanuts as high
as the wash bench, and she cried, ex-
cited like:
peonuts?"
Yes" said Uncle Wiggily. seeing
that he was caught i did
We'll, well" said Nurse Jane. How
foolish of you, but you meant TO be
kind. We can never use all that pea
nut butter before it spells, but we can
give most of il away" And they did
give lot of il to their animal friends
in woodland, so everything was al
right
So this teaches Us that when we do
anything different we should always
hide the shells. and If the Roman
candle doesn't go to sleep in the ice
box and forget to wake up in time to
20 with the strawberry Jam to the
moving pictures. I'll tell you next
about Uncle Wiggily and the ash
sifter.-Copyright 1918, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate