El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-04-15
Bedtime Stories For The Little Ones
UNCLE WIGGnY AND SANIMIE'S MARBLES

store cat cutting up monkey-shines
like"
So Uncle Wiggily- peeked around the
corner OF the zOogleberry bush, and
there he saw Susie Littletail, the rab-
bit girl with Beckie Stubtail. the girl
bear, and JiIlie Longtail. the mousie
@Oh, no, What are you three girls
dolnEg" asked Uncle Wiggily, as he
made them a low and polite bow with
his tail. silk hat.
Jumping rope" answered Susie.
But what's all this talk Of jumping
salt. pepper and sugar. the bunny
wanted to know, as he saw that each
OF the animal girls had a piece OF
rope made from bit Of wild grave
vine. in her paws
sOh. Jumping pepper is jumping
very fast said Beckie- Jumping salt
is a little slower. and jumping sugar
I is slowest Of all We only jump sugar
fashion when we are very tired"
"Oh. I seei" said Uncle Wiggily.
We'll, think you had better skip and
jump your ropes along to school, or
you may be late and the lady mouse
teacher IN the educational hollow
stump viii not like It."
'oh, wen jump faster and get to
I school fast" said Susie Don't you
want to skip rope. Uncle Wiggily?"
/ she asked the bunny gentleman.
Bless your spelling book! No" an
swered Mr.. LOngears. with a laugh.
Z ITS al I can do 10 twinkle ny pink
nose. But I'll hop along to school with
! you"
So Uncle Wiggily hoped along the
woodland paths, and Susie. Beckie and
Jillie skipped their ropes. salt, pepper
or sugar. just as they felt like
They we're getting nearer and nearer
the hollow stump school, and Uncle
Wiggily was thinking he would hardly
/. have any adventure that day when, all
Of a sudden, out from under a squib-
. ble-squabble bush jumped the old bad
blue-nosed babboon.
'Oh, no." cried the blue-nosed bah
! boon This is my lucky day. I have
caught Uncle Wiggily and Susie.
Becllie and Jillie; Oh, joy"
Hal You haven't caught US yeti"
cried brave Uncle Wiggily- Come on.
girlsl" he cried to his little animal
friends. Run and skip and jump as
fast as you can, and perhaps we can
get away from this bad chap"
So Uncle Wiggily and Susie and
Becl1ie and Jiliie ran as fast as they
could, but the hlue-nosed babboon ran
after them, and as ne could run
faster he was soon almost up with
them.
oh, Uncle wiggily' What shan we
we mustn't let him catch u.s."
said Becbie.
We don't want 70 II We can help
it" spoke Uncle Wiggily- Let me
see, now Hal I have it, Just ahead
is a big, high wall Of stone, back OF
the hollow stump school II we can
get down over that high wall and
leave the babboon on TOP. he can't get
US"
But how can we get down over the
high wall. unless we jump asked
Susie And If we jump wen hurt
ourselves"
Wen go down by tying your jump
ing ropes together into one long rope.
and slide down that" said Uncle Wig
gily. Quick Tie the ropes to-
gether and fasten them TO a tree on
top OF the stone wall Then we can
slide down the loose end and be safe
in school"
So the wild grapevine jumping
ropes we're tied together. First Susie
slid down. then Beckie and then Jfllfe.
Next Uncle Wiggily slid safely down,
and then the bad blue-nosed babboon
started TO climb down the rope
But. all Of a sudden. those grape
vine ropes began TO jiggle and ioggle
And, all by themselves, without any
one telling them. or turning them.
they began 70 jump salt and pepper