El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-06-06
Bedtime Stories For The Little Ones
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE WASHING MACHINE.
~ HOW I'D Il. GARIs anu-uur-u- -----.,----

Jane and Baby Buuty picked up The
soled clothes and got ready % wash
them.
Baby Bunty cut up q cake Of soap
and Nurse Jane filled the tub with
warm water
Vow said the muslzrat lady. you
may help me bring down the basket
Of linen from the beds.
So Baby Buntv did this. but Just as
Nurse Jane was going 10 turn the
CLONES into the washing machine the
telpnone rans in the hollow stump
bungalow.
III see who It Isl" cried lively
Baby Buuty. hopping into the din
ing room. Its for you. Nurse Jane d"
said she You talk and III go uu-
stairs and get some Of my dolls
clothes They need washing, too.
Vow, while Nurse Jane was az the
telephone, talking 10 AIRS. StubtaiL
the bear lady wanted to know how
% make a strawberry shortcake
longer. so there would - enough for
company. and while Baby Bunty was
getting out her dolls clothes. the bad
old SkeeZiclzs came sueakinE around
the hollow stump bungalow He saw
the basket OF clothes i'm the kitchen
near the new machine. and the
SzeeZicks said.
Ha, This is Just my chancet PHI
hide in that basket. down under che
clothes and when Uncle WigEily
7 can jump out and bite some souse
off his ears before he knows it, oh.
I'm n lot smarter than the PirsiseW an
or the SkuddlemlgOon- They wouldn't
think OF this way of etching some
sOuse off Uncle GFiEEily's earsr'
So the bad old Skeeziczs hid him
self away down in the bottom Of the
basket OF clothes while Baby Buuty
was upstairs and while Nurse Jane
was at the telephone
And then who should come along
bur Uncle NiggllT- He hadn't found
an adventure so ne said 10 HIMSELF
'Iu go back TO my BUNGALOW and
see how The new washing machine is
working"
And when Uncle WierIy reached
The Kitchen and saw the basket o.
clothes that were not yet washed, and
when he saw the washing machine
be said:
-Weu. 7 guess Baby Buuty and
Nurse Jane haven't had time 20 wash
The clothes. III put them in the ma
chine and give it a few twists and
turns myself"
And before the bad skeezicks could
Hop out from under the clothes. ana
get Uncle NiEgily's sOuse the bhir
Gentleman tipped the clothes. Skee-
ziczs and al into the tub Of soap and
water. slammed down the lid and be-
gan TO turn the handle, which skid
died the three-ieEEed stool
And just as Nurse Jane and Baby
Bunty came into the kitchen. there
sounded from the washing machine
such distressful cries ass
ooh. Wowi Oh, let me oull On. I'm
being washed so clean I'll never look
like myself again oh. sulutteri"
'4Iy goodness what's that-' cried
Nurse Jane. Il didn't know the
clothes nor the washing machine
could talki~
"Cucle Wiggily opened the cover.
out popped the Skeezicks, AN wet and
covered with soapsuds and De looked
like cat that had fallen into the
bathtub.
-This is too much 70 rmetT cried
the Skee. and way be ran Then the
machine washed all the clothes very
clean. and Nurse Jane liked 30 very
much. And IL the molasses candy
doesn't stay so long az the moving
pictures that it can't get out Of the
seat. I'll tell you next about Uncle
Wiggily and the red tulip--Copvrich
1919. by Mcclure Newspaper Syndi-
cate.)