The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-12-19

. Uncle WiggiIy's Christmas. :
BY Howard r. Garis.

| ~ howard X. Garis.
Uncle Wigsi;y was Aitting In the
parlor OF r!s hollow stump bungalow.
Out In the kitchen was Nurse Jane
Fuzzy Wuzzy. his muskrat lady mousse
keeper.
She certainly is going to get me up
q fire dinner for tomorrow, thai Is IL
smells so for nything." said Uncle
WigslY 10 himself. as he shifted
roasted carrots. hrSiled turr.'ps, frlca-
seed cabbage and scrambled lettuce.
And h the bunny rabbit gent.as"an
feit 40 good and lrs Spy that he sang.
Twas the day before Christmas.
In the bungalow snug,
h automobile was a-going 'chug~
chug!' q,
The Kitchen WAS filled up with smells
Of delight.
For dear old ST. Nicholas would be
there that night"
"Ha! Pretty good for you!" laughed
Nurse Jane, rs she looked in from the
dining ROOM, Il dab of flour on the
end OF her nose and jelly dripping
down from her whiskers. you seem
quite happy. Uncle Wiggily.' she
said,
Il am" spoke the bunny. II hope
every II has as nice a Christmas as
| am going to have. Hurray! tn be
tomorrow. I can hardly waltz"
And that's the way 1t was all over
Woodland. where the animal boys and
girls lived. Sammie and Susie Little
tail. h rabbits; Johnnie and Billie
Bushytail. the squirrels; Jackie and
Petite Bow Wow. the puppies: JACKIE
and JUMBO KinkytaiL. the monkeys.
and Curley and Floppy Twlstytail, the
piggie boys--each n every one was
getting ready to hang up his n her
stocking. or walt to see what was lefs
for them under the Christmas tree.
The morning turned into afternoon,
and the afternoon began to turn into
n~ight-soon 1t would be the night be-
fore Christmas. Little soft snowfiakes
began to sift down from the clouds.
"Hurray!'" cried Uncle Wiggily, as
he saw them. There will be O white
Christmas"
And all the animal children said:
'Hurray!"
Then 1t became dark. It was time
for little animal boys and girls to go
10 bed, so Santa Claus. Kris Kringle,
Saint Nick, or whoever brings tho
presents, could begin to start on tho
Journey.
Uncle Wiggily was scurrying around
here. there, everywhere, tipping his tall
silk hat on one side so he could see
through the snowfiakes. On the duck
pond some Of the animal children were
taking their last glide over the ice be-
fore going home. Uncle Wiggily took
one also. holding himself up on his
red. white n blue striped rheumatism
,rutch.
Then 1t became very dark. All was
silent in Woodland--the SQUIRRELS and
rabbits went to their underground
houses, the puppy dogs to their kennels,
the cucks and chickens to their pens
and coops and the birds to their nests.
Then, through the swirling snow
flakes went somebody in q big fur
ovcrcoat with red flannel trimmings
around the edges and a ruching of
icicles. From nest to burrow, from
burrow to coop and so on, went some
one.
The night passed on silently and I'm
the morning all the animal boys and
girls awakened and cried:
Merry Christmas! Merry Christ.
mas"
Merry Christmas!" answered the
fathers and mothers and uncles and
aunts and cousins and so on.
Lets go over and see Uncle Wig
gily and wish him Merry Christmasl"
said Johnnie Buhsytail, the squirrel.
who had q new sled.
And see what presents he got"
added Jackie Bow Wow, who was ling
ling his new skates.
And wen wish him Merry Christ
mas" softly spoke Susie Littletail. who
was playing with a new doll named
Julia Happiness Huckieberrypie.
So the animal children, with their
new presents, went over TO- see the
bunny uncle.
He was just getting ready to sic
down to a nice dinner which Nurse
Jane had ready for him.
Merry Christmas, everybody
cried Uncle Wiggily. Come in and
eat!' ~
Merry Christmas!" answered the
animal children.
And as they were eating. Alicia
Wfbblewobble. the duck girl, locke n
out OF the window and said:
oh, look at the two poor trsnns,n
Inc there was the skillery- scalery AMI
gator going along. paw in paw. with
the Fuzzy fox. They looked cold and
hungry.
Poor things!" said Uncle Wissilv
They have no Christmas dinner r
fear. Wen invite them in with us"
And have them bite?" cried John
ME R~ushytail. ooh. NOT"
They won't bite anything on Christ
mas but the dinner Tn give Them.
softly said Uncle Wiggily, and the for
II the alligator were so kt frustrated
n surprised at being invited in. and
SO ashamed that they acted as nicely
as heart could wish at the dinner table.
biting no one.
Merry Christmas to everybodyls
cried Uncle Wfggily. and every ono
had a most jolly time, with enough
| cranberry sauce to go around and have
| some left over, and the fox and the
alligator took some horne to their fam
lilies.
So Uncle Wiggily had his Christmas
! and he liked il ever sc much, and so
did the aaimal children. and now 7
nope you will all have a Merry Christi
mas, and If the wlshbone doesn't try
10 lump over the nut cracker into the