El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-01-18
Bedtime Story for the Little Ones
UHcLE wIGGILY AND NURSE JAMES PUDDING
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f, be any harm in just looking at it. and
maybe taking a smell. I'll do it."
So out to the back entry he went,
and there was the pudding, a lovely.
brown, rice one. with raisins in, and
I cOcoanut- maple-sugar- turnip-lettUce-
carrot-frosting on top.
"Ah, that looks very good" said the
bunny, and I have no doubt il tastes
even better than it looks. I wonder If
there would be any harm in taking a
faster No. there would not" and the
bunny rabbit answered his own ques-
ton for himself there being no one
else in the hollow stump bungalow to
do IL for him.
So he took a taste of Nurse James
pudding and exclaimed:
"Ah; that is very good! I wish It
was supper time now"
Then he took another taste, and an
other, and all at once he noticed that
he had made quite hole in the pud-
That viii never dog' he said. Il
must close this entry door and go
away or I'll eat the pudding all up be-
fore Nurse Jane comes home She
won't like that. No, indeedw
So Uncle Wiggily went away, and
he thought he closed the back entry
door, but he didn't
Instead he left it partly open, and
when the bunny rabbit gentleman
went out to do some more little work
around the bungalow, a bad old fuzzy
fox sneaked in and ate the nice musk
rat lady's pudding all Up.
I was going to bite some souse off
Uncle Wiggily's ears" said the fox,
but this pudding is better. hope she
makes another tomorrow"
Then the fox went away, wiping the
drops Of pudding from his whiskers
with his tail. and pretty soon Uncle
Wiggily came in his bungalow again.
I'll Just take look and see if that
pudding's all right" thought the bun
ny TO himself. But "lol and behold" as
they say in fairy stories. when he
looked he saw the pudding all eaten
Up.
"oh. my" cried Uncle Wiggily." Did
I do that? No, I couldn't. l only took
about ten tastes, and there was plenty
OF pudding left. But maybe 1 fell
asleep and did 1t in a dream! Oh, what
her 1 took a nibbie and some bites, and
she'll think I took the whole thing!
Oh, what shall 1 dog"
Uncle Wiggily thought for q minute,
and then he said:
Il know! I'll make another pudding
myself, and put it in the same pan
where Nurse Jane had hers. Maybe
she'll think it is the same. Let's see.
How do you make a pudding? III get
a recipe book and read"
So Uncle Wiggily read: Take ten
eggs, bowl Of flour, mix well with
pound OF lard and a piece of butter the
size of a baseball. Stir in a pint OF
molasses, add salt and pepper to taste.
sprinkle with raisins, pour pint OF
whipped cream over the top. bake in
quick oven and serve with toasted
cheese"
well, that sounds like a queer pud-
ding" said Uncle Wiggily, out maybe
- - wFuN
way. But the trouble was he had read
three or four recipes at once and
mixed them up.
He read part of the recipe for max
ing bread, part for making cake, an
other part for making cookies. an
other part for ketchup and still an
other for macaroni. You see the cook
book pages kept turning over as the
bunny mixed all the different things
he thought went in pudding. But he
made il and baked 1t though il looked
funny when he set it in the back
entry
Nurse Jane will never know" he
said. sort Of twinkling his pink nose
And when Nurse Jane came home
and served the pudding that night
for supper, she said:
why, Wiggy, what is this2 Surely |
I never made a pudding like this."
no, I did" spoke the bunny, and !
he told what had happened, and how /
the fox had eaten the real pudding, for !
he afterward saw the paw marks Of /
the bad animal in the snow.
"Oh, deari Such a funny pudding" I
laughed Nurse Jane. But II can't be
eaten" Then she made a hasty pud- /
ding and she and the bunny ate that. 4
And il was very good. So II the l
postage stamp doesn't sit down on the !
envelope so hard that IL can't get up I
to make a bow TO the policeman, I'll !
tell you next about Uncle Wiggily |
and Jacko's snowball.-Copyrigh /
1918, by Mcclure Newspaper Syndi- |
cate.