El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-07-18

tnNE morning. when Uncle Wiggily
~ came down to breakfast IN his
hollow stump bungalow, he saw his
muskrat lady housekeeper with a can
on her head and a bunch OF turkey
feathers in one paw.
What are you doing. Nurse Jane
Fuzzy Wuzzy?'' asked the rabbit gen.
tieman, as he picked up a tack left
over from where he had fastened the
bad fox to the floor the day before.
Oh I am busting the parIor," was
the answer. You see. our animal Ia
dies sewing circle meets hare todav
and want TO h=ve the b-4=ealoU nice
and neat Uaer they come"
.Perhsps I could do somethfn. -
help you said Uncle Wiggilv. Co.
not very go0d at busting, because IL
makes me tank 7 have the epizootic.
But II there IL anything else could
do TO make the bungalow look nice for
the sewing circle ladies, pray com
mand me-"
Mr. Longears made low and polite
oow' even il he didn't have on his tan.
Well II you could 20 off in the
fields or woods. and gather me some
flowers to put in vases in the parlor.
they would make the place look nice
when the animal ladies gethere." said
Nurse Jane
Flowers you shall have-as MANY
as you like" said Uncle Wiggily. "Iu
breakfast"
Nurse Jane gave him some boiled
Watercress pudding with cherry Die.
and. having eaten that. Uncle Wiggily
took down his red. white and blue
striped rheumatism crutch from the
clock shelf and started out
Over the fields and through the
woods hoped Uncle Wfggily. and soon
he saw a bunch OF blue flowers grow
ing near a little brook that dubbed
over green messy stones
III pick some blue flowers for
Nurse Jane" said the rabbit gentle
man to himselgs and he did.
Next he saw some red flowers grow
Ing near a big gray stone. and he
picked omse Of the red blossoms. After /
that the rabbit gentleman saw white I
daisies in field, and he picked osme !
of them
Il have a regular flag bouquet-red. /
white and blue. like my rheumatism |
crutchr said Uncle Wiggily with a /
laugh as he stopped over to pick 1
some more daisies. And. as he did so. /
tickled the bunny under hi schin-
chopper.
ooh. no." he cried with a Jolly twin
kle OF his pink nose Il think some Of
LnlS llGklN grass MOElu look We'll IN
Nurse James bouquet"
So he gathered some of the grass. It {
had long tesms. and on the ends were
fluffy. feathery things, like plumes on
the heads Of circus parade horses.
N.Y. That bouquet looks nice" said
Uncle Wiggily. but If get my nose
too close to it I'll be so tickled that
I'll sneeze"
He tried It once to find out. and.
surely enough. as soon as he tried to
the tickly grass stuck up and made his
nose feel funny.
'Burr-r-rr-buzzi' laughed the bun
ny. I don't want TO do that very
often. ] guess Nurse Jane and the
sewing circle ladies' viii like the flow
ers, and they don't have to smell the
ticlzly grass"
Thinking how good Nurse Jane was
to bake cherry pies for him and all
things like that. Uncle Wiggily hoped
along back toward his hollow stumn
bungalow. He was almost there and
he was wondering If he could get one
Of the ladies' to sew a button on his
coat in a place where one ought to
be but wasn't. when, all Of a oneness.
out from behind a stone wall popped
the bad old fox
"Oh. no." barzed the fox, who had
gotten out Of Jail. after the time IN
Gle WiEgilv tackled him to the floor. !
"Oh. hoi This time I have you, and
even a hammer"
No" said Uncle Wiggily. sadly. Il
haven't I only have bouquet Of flow
ersi Take a SMELL" he suddenly said.
sticking them right IN the face OF the
fox
fox. as the tickly grass touched his
nose. Z don't care for flowers. All
want is some Of your sOuse" he
barked.
"Oh. do have another smellr cried
Uncle Wiggily. teasinglike and OBJ
streperous- once more he thrust the
flowers under the nose Of the fox
.'Oh. stop IT, I-aker-choo-lzer-Sn it-
zioi' sneezed the bad animal Il don't
like flowers," he snluttered.
"Oh. but you might like them II you
sea.-Copyright 1919. by Post pub
fishing Co. (The Boston Post-) Pub
lished by special arrangement with
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
All rights reserved.
s1rfIe No. 49, by Emile GahOrfau,
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