El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-04-30
Bedtime Stories For The Little Ones
UNCLE wIGeIY AND BABY BUNTY.

try to hurry I get aches and pains
/ and
"Oh, NONSENSE" laughed Nurse Jane
You only imagine IL You're as VOTING
as ever What you need is some one
lively around the house. Some one TO
4 chase you, to tag you and make YOU
SPY cant 90 il, because I have
the housework TO look after But Il
You could set some bright. risky.
. lively little chap-why you'd be a
+ different rabbit"
i s'p0se I would" said Uncle Wig
gily- DO you mean TO get Johnnie
or 5ilue Bushytail, one Of the SPUR
J rel 6oysE They're lively enough"
Yes, they're lively enough" said
I Nurse Jane, but they have 10 frislz
around their own home nest. You want
I scme one TO stay here with you a long
"Al right" said Uncle Wiggily. sad
T Ike and not very hopeful After
B breakfast I'll go TO the five and six
cent store and see If I can get a lively
( little chap TO cheer me up"
You won't find any at the five and
SIX, nor even at the ten and eleven
cent store said Nurse Jane. True.
the little mousie girl clerks are lively
enough, but they have to work. You
need a-well. a sort Of companion. I'm
getting too old for you"
Nonsense" scoffed Uncle WigElly.
But as he hoped over the fields
and through the woods after break
fast the more he thought Of what
Nurse Jane had said the more he
knew she was right
i need some one lively 20 make
me jump around" thought the bunny.
IF only I could get a.
Just then he heard a little voice
calling;
Let me out. Let me outr'
'Ha! Where does that voice come
from2' asked the bunny Where are
you whoever you are2
IN this hollow stump, right behind
your answered the voice eOh, ] hate
being cooped up herel 7 want 10 get
out and jump around and chase my
shadow and jump over moonbeams
and all things ike that"
Are yOu-are you a fairy asked
Uncle Wiggily sort Of hopeful like.
If help you out Of the hollow stump.
could you make me feel younsster and
more lively2"
OF course I could: but I'm not
fairy was the answer, given with a
jolly laugh
You must be a fairy or else you
couldn't take away my old-aEe aches
and pains" said the bunny. We'll. as
long as you aren't the skillery-scalery
alligator, or the Pipsisewah, I'll let
you out But how did you get in2'
Let me out and III tel you-' said
the voice.
The hollow stump was partly filled
with old dried leaves. broken sticks
and bits OF bark. Uncle Wiggily
scraped all this away with his paws,
and out popped the dearest little girl
rabbit You ever saw.
-Oh. who are you2" was the answer. .
L am Baby Bunty.7 was the an
swer- Il was going through the
woods with my papa and mamma I
while ago. but a bad fox caught them, R
and I was left all alone So I hid in
the hollow stuHp- the birds piled
leaves and bits OF bark over ne 10
hide me. but when it rained it was
packed down so hard that couldn't
get out So had TO cry for help
Wen, I'm glad I helped you" said
the bunny. "But how are you going
to make me feel young again'-
Tag You're it," suddenly cried
Baby BuHty, TAPPING Uncle , Wiggiiy
with her paw Now you have 20
chase me-" and away she hoped
through the woods
IKE that. all alone. tire fox VIII catch
herr said Uncle Wigglly. Fiji have
TO run after herr But my aches
my rains-0h dear-"
Awav hoped the rabbit gentleman.
after Baby Buuty. she ran fast and
so did Uncle WigEily, and when they
reached his hollow stump bungalow
he. was so warm and excited and so
anxious about Baby Bunty-why, he
wasn't lame or stiff a Bit Can you
imaCine2
y told you sou laughed Nurse Jane,
when she saw the baby rabbit. which
1Ir. LonEears said he would keep in
his BUNGALOW. Nov that you have
some one young around you'u get
younger yourself
And Mr. Longears did AND II the
+on of the house doesn't so down eel
1q- 20 see why the laundry tubs can't
wash the coal white. I'll tell you next
about Uncle WiEEily and Bunty's
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