El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-02-07
Bedtime Stories For The Little Ones

UNCLE WIGGILY AND The SNOW MAN.
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cried Uncle Wiggily, in his most jolly
If you please" said Johnnie. as he
cracked q hickory nut in his stroue
teeth. I'VE don't want 70 come In
You come out and play with US, Uncle
IFS showing dandy" Chartered
BILLIE Cant you make US another
snow house, or q snow fort or some
thing ike THAR
How would you IKE me to make
you a snow man2" asked the bunny
soh. finer' cried johnnie and Billie
together, just like twins, only they
weren't OF course.
IAN right" said good old Uncle
Wiggiiy. I'll come out and make you
soon the old rabbit gentleman and
the two squirrel boys were friskinE
about in the snow, playing tag with
the flakes and also rolling up big
snow balls, for that IS the way you
start to make snow man you know
You roll one big ball for the snow
mans body, and a smaller ball for his
head and then you make two long
pieces Of snow, like breakfast rolls,
for the nsow mans legs.
But how do you make the snow
mans eyes and nose and MOUTH
sT'II take two pieces OF black coal
from my cellar for his eyes said
Uncle WfEgliy. You may 90 and get
them Billie As for his mouth. I'll
make that with a piece OF red flannel.
he viii have red lips and a red
tongue. You may go ask Nurse Jane
for them. Johnnis. And for the nose
III take a little lump OF snow and
fasten It on the snow mans face right
between his eyes In the place where
a nose alWayes goes.
So Johnnie got the pieces OF red
flannel for the mans Fps and mouth
and tongue and Billie got the two
pieces Of black coal for his eyes and
Uncle WiEgfly made the nose. Then
NJ. Longears found one Of his old
tall silk hats and put that on the
snow ran, and next the bunny found
an old piece Of his red. white and blue
rheumatism crutch, and gave that 10
the snow man for cane and he
looked as real as anything.
oh, he's just finei" cried Billie
T could almost shake paws with
him." chartered Johnnie. 7 wonder
n a snow man can get hungry. Uncle
WiEgilyT' the little furry chap asked
anxious like.
We'll ! don't know about that"
said Uncle WigEily with jolly laugh.
But I know some squirrel boys who
are hungry and II you'u come In my
hollow STUMP bungalow. III have
Nurse Jane get you some moiasses
''But we didi-t ask for EN-, aid we,
Uncle WiEgily2 Mother said we
weren't to ask for anything 70 eat.
and We didn't. did weT'
NO. indeed" laughed the bunny.
Then he took the two squirrel boys in
the hollow stump bungalow, and Nurse
Jane gave them some molasses cook
les And. while they were looking
out OF the window, they saw the bad
old red tailed fox come creeping softly
in the yard
"oh. look, Uncle WiEgiIy.' cried
Billie VIII he hurt us2T
But before the rabbit gentleman
could answer. the fox gave one look at
the great biz white snow man, with
his eyes as black as coal and his lips
and tongue as red as flannel and the
fox just tucked his tail between his
legs and ran away. bowling.
Oh I'll be good III be goodi Don't
throw any snow halls at me Mr. Man"
Uou see Uncle Wiggily had made the
snow image 50 natural that the fox
thought II was real and ran away So
once again everything came out all
right, thus teaching US that II is a
good thing 10 eat molasses cookies.
and II the gold fish doesn't whistle IN
its sleep and wake up the apple
dumping, I'll tell you next about
Uncle WiEEfly's hat shampoo.
(C,orvrfeht- 1873. bv the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)