El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-04
Bedtime Story for the Little Ones
UNCLE WIGGILY AND The STARCH.
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nose with his left hind leg. Then he
said:
well, to tell you the truth. I didn't
know there were two kinds OF starch.
Hot and cold, Ell? I wonder which kind
Nurse Jane wants"
Uncle Wiggily looked out Of the
window Of the seven and eight cent
store. He saw big icicles hanging
down and he saw the snow On the
ground and he knew il was cold, so
he said:
I'll have hot starch. II you please"
Why" asked the mOusie girl
TO keep me warm on my way back
10 my hollow stump bungalow an
swered the bunny rabbit gentleman
Nurse Jane forgot to say whether she
wanted hot or cold starch, but ! m
sure it must be hot"
Very we'll" answered the mousie
girl behind the counter in the ten and
eleven cent store. So she put some
nice, hot, white starch / a pail for
Uncle Wiggily, and soon the bunny
rabbit gentleman was on his way BACK
over the ICY snowy fields and through
the woods to his hollow stump bunga-
low.
He had not gone very far when, all
OF a sudden a voice cried:
Hold on, II you please"
Uncle Wiggily stopped and looked
around. Then he saw running toward
him, the bad old Skeezicks. Uncle
Wiggily started to hop away, but the
Skeezicks soon acught UP TO him.
What do you want Of meg" asked
the bunny.
You know very well what I wanti'
growled the Skeezicks. 7 want some
souse off your ears, and I'm going to
get II. too Burr-r-r-r-rw and he
waggled his tail as fast as anything
I'm going to have some souse."
went on the Skeezicks. and then, Mr..
Longears, I'm going to
The Skeezicks stopped suddenly as
he saw the pail in Uncle Wiggily s
what have you there?' asked the
Skeezicks, suspicious like.
oh" answered the bunny rabbit
gentleman, that IS some starch for
Nurse Jane and
-.Don't saw another word!' cried the
Skeezicks, as he took the cover off the
pail. Starch, Has you are joking.
This is not starch 1t is nice hot
pudding. You called il starch TO fool
me. But I'll eat it all before I bite
souse off your ears!
Then and there the Skeezicks COB
bled up every bit OF the starch in the
pail, smacking his lips for more, as It
was not hot enough to burn him
And now" said the Skeezicks, FOR
the souse off your ears-
But then a funny thing happened
All OF a sudden that bad Skeezicks
stiffened out Just like a collar fresh
from the Chinaman's laundry. As stiff
as a board the Skeezicks Strengthened
out and all he could say in a faint and
far away voice was:
"Oh. deari Oh, deari
For the starch (Which he thought
was pudding) had stiffened him up
and he couldn't bite Uncle Wiggily or
hurt him or do anything. And the
Skeezlcks was so stiff, like shirt
bosom, that he had to stay in the
woods until the rain came and washed
the starch out Of him But Uncle Wig
gily was all right
The bunny hurried back TO the store,
and got more starch for Nurse Jane.
who soon finished ironing her clothes,
and that's all now, II you please And
IL the steam heating plant grows some
coal and wood blossoms, so the gas
stove can have a vacation at the sea-
shore. I'll tell you next about Uncle
Wfggily and Grandpa Grunter.-Copy-
right, 1918, by Mcclure Newspaper
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