El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-16

/ ~COMETHING in your kitchen smells
- very good, Nurse Jane" said
Uncle Wiggily to his muskrat lady
/ hOusekeeper one morning. as he stood
! on the stoop Of the hollow bungalows.
We'll, I am trying to make a rice
! pudding" spoke Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy.
Are you only just trying to-
I Uncle Wiggily wanted to know, an
tieipating like and casual.
4 could make it all right If / had
a nutmeg CRATER" went on the musk
rat lady but mine is broken, and
until gst a new one I'm afraid there
viii be NJ rice pudding.
I musJ sprinkle nutmeg on the rice
pudding TO give it the proper flavor"
she added ~Of course I could get nut
meg already powdered at the store
but 1 like to take one Of the whole
nutmegs mystelf. rub it up and down
on the round crater. like a file, and
make my rice pudding that way
1t Is the best" said Uncle WfgEflv.
TIL hop right over to the six and
seven cent store and bring you back
q crater"
and bring some fresh nutmegs.
too spoke Nurse Jane. So Uncle
Wiggily said he would
On he hoped, over the fields and
through the woods, and soon he was
at the grocery store. kept by the nice
monkey doodle gentleman.
Here you arel Nice, fresh nut
megs" said the monkey doodle, and
he gave Uncle Wiggily some Of the
round, brown nuts that have such a
nice. spicy smell and which make rice
buildings taste so deliciously.
Nov for the nutmeg graterr" said
Uncle Wiggily to himself as he hop
ped along a little farther. And then.
hoi for a rice pudding"
The bunny rabbit soon found a six
and seven cent store where nutmeg
graters were sold A little pussy cat
girl waited on him. Soon with the
rough crater, which was like a file.
wrapped in paper so that It would not
scratch him, Uncle Wiggily was on
his way back to his hollow stump
bungalow.
But the rabbit gentleman had not
hoped very far through the woods
before, all at once, he heard a voice
'@Oh- I can't get outi I can't get outi
Pm caught in a trap and I can't get
OUT
Uncle Wiggily looked all around.
but he could see no one
I must be careful whispered the
bunny rabbit gentleman to himself.
Perhaps this is a trick OF the Skee- I
ticks or the Skuddlemagoon- They
may be pretending to be in a trap.
so that I viii hop close enough so
they can grab me and get my sOuse. I
I must be careful"
And Uncle Wiggily was careful
He looked all around and. once more. |
the voice called:
Help me out OF the trapi Oh. please |
help me out OF the trapr'
'Vho are youi Where are you -
And what is the trapz" asked Uncle I
Wlggily. his pink nose twinkling
twice as fast as an ice cream cone
i am Jennie ChiDmunk-" was the
answer. "And I am under the sassa-
fras tree, caught in a wooden box
trap that the Pipsisewah set here. II
didn't see It until I stun bled in Il. {
and now the door has sprung shut and
I can't get out"
20. we'll. I'll help you outr' cried
Uncle Wiggily. in his Jolly voice. as
he hoped over to where he saw a
20 ssafras bush growing. Have no
fear. Jennie. I'll help you out"
The bunny rabbit gentleman saw
where the trap had been set AS Jen- {
ME had said, ii was made OF wood I
and as soo1 as Uncle Wiggily saw [
that ne said
20. hoi With my sharp. gnawinE
teeth I can soon bite through the [