El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-27
,uuun y HOWARD

Uncle WIGGILY LONGEARS,
the nice bunny rabbit gentle
- man. was spending the evening
at the burrow. or underground house
Of Sammie and susie LittletaI, the
bunny rabbit children. At Uncle
Wiggny's hollow stump bungalow
Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy. his musk
rat lady hOusekeeper. and Mrs. Wib-
blewobble. the duck lady. as well as
Aunt Lettie. the old lady goat. were
/ knitting socks for soldiers and the
dear animal ladies' talked so much
and so fast that Uncle Wiggily went
/ out-just as the light does when
! there is no more gas.
Sammie was studying his home
I work school lessons and. all OF
( sudden he looked at Uncle Wlggily.
who was twinkling his pink nose like
some circus lemonade. and Sammie
asked:
Uncle wiggily, what's parched
why" asked the bunny. have you
a two times arithmetic table example
in parched corn, as Jacko Kinkytail.
the monkey boy, had an example last
night about soap bubbles and lolly-
pope2"
mo; this IS my history lesson I'm
studying" said Sammie. 1T says
here that the Indians ate parched
corn in winter. What's parched
cornz'
well. it's something like popped
corn only different" said the bunny
rabbit uncle. The Indians used to
take the kernels Of corn and. instead
Of popping them, for this was a diff
! ferent kind, and maybe they didn't
know how 10 pop-anyhow they took
kernels Of corn and made them brown
over a fire"
do you mean over the gas slower"
asked Sammie's sister Susie who was
listening.
ooh, no! Indians who lived here
many years ago didn't have gas
stoves" said Uncle Wiggily. They
made a fire OF wood, or corn cobs
and did their parching over that
Parched corn Is very good to eat,
Sammie. The Indians who used to
hunt my rabbit ancestors used to take
parched corn with them when they
went hunting"
Did they put II in their pockets2''
asked Sammie.
Indians had no pockets" scid
Uncle Wiggily with a laugh. They
carried it in a bag. But speaking Of
parched corn makes me wish I had
some. And, II you uike to come back
with me, Sammie. I'll have Nurse
Jane parch you some She knows
just how to do it"
I'll 60" said Sammie who had
finished studying his lessons. I'll go
get the parched corn with you, IN
Gle Wiggily."
Please bring me back some"
begged Susie.
Il will" promised sammie.
So he and Uncle Wiggily, with the
pink, tWinkling nose, set out for the
bunny rabbit gentleman's hollow
stump bungalow.
p T
ears. as he glanced up at the sky
chat is as much Of II as he could see.
for it was now night
"Oh. well. we shan't mind the snow
II we have parched corn" said Sam
ME with a laugh.
They went into the hollow stump
bungalow and there Nurse Jane Fuzzy
Wuzzy. the nice muskrat lady house
keeper, narched some sweet corn for .
Uncle Wiggily and Sammie She /
parched II in pan over the gas stove /
for. said she:
dams had to, II would smoke up the /
bungalow"
Very true" agreed Uncle Wiggily.
"A gas stove IS not so romantic but 4
II is quicker for parched corn"
so the bunny gentleman and Sam
ME and Nurse Jane ate the corn.
tracking the hard. crisp kernels with 1
their teeth. and then Sammie filled 4
Susie.
NV. # is showing hard" said I'm
Gle Wiggilv. as he and the rabbit
boy started back for the Idttletail
hurrow house. ct hope we don't get
lost. Sammie.
II hope so. too" said Sammie. But
that is Just what happened. It
showed 50 hard and was so dark that
ne bunny rabbit gentleman and lit
fle bov lost their wav IN the woods.
Thew couldn't find the path 70 SOM
niles house. and Uncle Wiggilv
didn't know where his BUNGALOW was
"Oh. dear" cried Sammie 'We1I
have 70 stav in the woods all nlrht."
well. n we DO we can eat parched
"orn as the Indians did" said the
bunny twinlSline his pink nose.
'houoh you couldn't see It as II was
50 dark
"Rut where can we stay IN all. this
Vto-r7 80 ael5ed Sarnuie.
Wen dig a little horse under the
snow" said Uncle Wiggily