El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-07
Bedtime Story for the Little Ones
UNCLE WIGGILY AND CURLEY.
fly HOWARD n. GARTS..,.


, Wfggily!" joyfuIly cried Curley.
Then, with his tall silk hat on his
head, and his pink nose tWinklinE like
a sunflower before it goes to sleep
[ Uncle Wiggily came out OF the bun
galow and started off over the fields
and through the woods with the little
/ piggie boy.
They had not gone very far before
all at once, Curiey cried;
ooh, Uncle Wiggily. Look at this
I funny football, all covered with tooth
picks! Come on, give it kick!"
Uncle Wiggily looked back and saw
the little piggie boy about to kick
something large and round and all
/ covered with points, Or spines, or. as
Curley had said, toothpicks-
"Oh, my goodness! Don't kick THAR
cried the bunny.
why not2' asked Curley, with HIS
foot raised ready to kick. Why cant
I give this funny football a boost?
Because, in the first place, that
isn't a football at all It's your cousin,
Stickery Hedgehog. or a porcupine, as
some friends Of mine call him. You
wouldn't want to kick your cousin,
would your
mo. not 'zactly." said curley,
slowly.
And another reason, CurIey," went
on Uncle Wiggily, is that If you die
kick this Stickery Hedgehog chap
you'd be sorry. For his skin is full. as
you can see, Of big, long thorns- You
thought they were toothptcks, and
perhaps porcupines do pick their teeth.
anyhow their quilts are very sharp and
IL they stick in any animal-well that
animal is hurt very much, and Is very
sorry"
"Hol Then I'm glad didn't kick my
cousin like a football said Curley.
"And I'm glad, too" said the
little hedgehog boy himself. as he IN
a ball when he heard some one COM
ing. Porcupines do that to keep other
animals from biting them = m glad
you told Curley how to be kind TO me,
Uncle Wiggily," went on Sttckery
Hodgehog. And II ever can do you
a favor 1 will
Pray do not mention it." spoke IN
Gle WiEgiiy with a low and polite bow.
Then, bidding the porcupine good
BY, Uncle Wiggily and Curley, the
piggie boy. kept on, looking for an ao-
venture. But they went a long way
without finding one, and Uncle wig
cily was beginning to feel that this
was not one of his lucky days when.
all of a sudden, out from behind a big
stone popped a bad old BalloonerburS.
Now a BaIloonerburg is an animal
something like a balloon. filled with
hot air, and It talks and jabbers TO you
so long that at last you fall down
asleeD and then the Balloonerburg
carries you off to his den. There is no
getting away from talking Balloon
erburg.
"Ah, Ia! have caught you, I see"
began the bad animal, as he began 10
chatter and jabber at Uncle Wiggily
and Curley.
DO YOU think Of the weather, isn't II
cold for this time of year and are your
pines frozen, mine are, and have you
any coal and do you think the war
will soon be over and what are you
knitting for Red Cross and
Well, that's the way the Ballooner-
burg talked on. and Uncle W1ggily
and Curley could feel themselves get
ting weak and faint, and they knew
they would soon topple over and he
carried of. when, all at once, voice
cried:
Look out"
Down the hill came rolling Prickly
Hedgehog. with his sharp quilts all
sticking out. Into the BalloOnerburg
bumped Stickery, and then came
hiss OF air, as when an automobile tire
bursts. and the Balloonerburg Topped
down and became as flat as pan
cake. The porcupine had stuck holes
in him ard let out all the hot air
Then the Balloonerburg couldn't
talk any more until it was wound up
or blown Up again. and Uncle Wiggily
and Curley got safely away and they
thanked the prickly porcupine very
much
And now. II the beauty pin doesn't
pinch the tail of the shirt and make
the button hook catch in the eye OF
the needle I'll tell you next about IN
Gle Wiggily and the clothes pole
Copyright, 1913, by Mcclure NeWspa-
per Syndicate.