El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-12-28
Bedtime Story For The Little Ones
UNCLE WIGGILY AND NOAHS ARK.
-, By Toward ". GARIS,

sWOU won't be very long. viii your"
l asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy,
the muskrat lady housekeeper, as IN
Gle Wiggily Longears, the bunny
rabbit gentleman. started out from
his hollow stump bungalow one day
Very long?" he replied Wen. the
only part OF me that viii % long is
ny ears And can't help them"
NO, don't mean that" said Nurse
Jane, as Uncle Wiggily twinkled his
pink nose, joking like 7 mean you
won't stay in the woods very long"
"Oh, no, I'm only going out to look
for an adventure" said the bunny. -As
soon as I find that III come right
back"
So away he hoped on his red. white
and blue striped barber pole rheu-
matism crutch. and soon he was IN
the woods, where the snow lay thick
under the trees, for 1t was a few days
after Christmas
All at once Uncle Wiggily saw
something that looked like a little
house, or box. on the snow under a
next years banana bush
7 wonder what that isl" thought
the bunny. 1t looks as II It might be
a trap. I must be careful and take
another look III put on my glasses. %
found he had left his spectacles home,
and ne could not see, very plainly,
what was lying on the snow.
IF II IS little box, could take Il
home to Nurse Jane so she could keep
her needles, pins, spools OF thread and
sewing things in IT," thought the
bunny. II # Is a little house I could
take Il to Susie Littletail. the rabbit
girl, 70 play her dOllies lived in It
but. instead, q trap. I had best be
careful"
Uncle Wiggily was walking around
the thing on the snow, looking At IL
from all sides, and wishing he had
his glasses so he might see what It
was. when. all Of a sudden. he heard
a laugh-and not a very nice kind OF
behind a bush Jumped the bad old
Mogglewoggle-
How do you do. Mr.. Longears?'
asked the Mogglewoggle, who. as
have told you, has a long tail. As
round and thin as a lead pencil How
do you do?"
Not so very well since I've seen
you" answered Uncle Wiggily. sort
OF shivery like. T think III be go
ing"
sOh, moi No you won'ti- cried the
Mogglewoggle, who had managed to
get loose from the place where his
tail was caught fast in the crutch
holes In the snow, the time Uncle
Wiggily took the custard uie 20 the
poor church mouse lady. You'll stay
right here until see II you have any
thing 70 eat in your pocketsi" said the
mad Moggiewoggle.
He was just going 10 grab hold Of
Uncle Wiggily when. all Of a sudden.
something moved in the little box. or
house, that lay on the snow. and some
thing ran across the snow. and stood
beside Uncle Wiggily. And the some
thing that was very little cried IN a
small. squeaky voice
You let Uncle Wiggily alone"
Who says so7 Who are YOU Pooh.
I'm not afraid OF you You're too little
TO scare mer' boosted the Mogglewog-
gle
little. an 7? Wen. watch me grow
big" said the little animal that had
come from the tiny house.
And then and there Uncle Wiggiiy
saw great big lion appear. The lion
was SO big that tho bunny could see
him without glasses. And when the
Mogglewoggle saw the lion he cried:
"Oh. I'll be goodi I won't hurt Uncle
Wiggily. Let me goi Where did you
come from so suddenlyg'
I came from the Noah's Ark that
Jennie Chipmunk got for Christmas"
was the answer. she forgot 70 and
a wooden lion, when the snow made
me damp and wet I swelled up big.
And now I'm bigger than you,"
Yes, see you are" said the Mog-
And there's a tiger and an elephant