El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-02-28

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II ~ late cake in the bungalow %
asked Uncle wiggiIy one DAY. as he
poked his pink, twinkling nose just
I past the door where the muskrat lady
was washing the dishes
Chocolate cake2 Why. no. Uncle
wiggily- am sorry to say we have
not a bit in the place" answered
Nurse Jane
Can you make some the bunny
wanted TO know
7 could II I had some eggs" she
answered 7 need eggs to make a
cake. and I Just used the last egg
making an omelet for your break
fast
"Oh. well. If eggs are all you need
TO make a chocolate cake. III soon
fix that said Uncle WiggiIy. III
80 over 10 AIRS. Cluck- Cluck. the hen
lady mother Of Charlie and Arabella
Chick. and get a lot Of eggs"
An right" said Nurse Jane. as she
busted off the dishpan. Take a has
ket and bring me some eggs. and I'll
make the chocolate CAKE
So. a little later. wearing his tall
! sunny @AAA nat " AAlA MS UALh
tWinkling like a bean bag. and limp
ing along on his red, white and blue
striped rheumatism crutch, Uncle
. Niggily set off, over the fields and
through the woods, to the hen lady's
coop.
Eggs for a chocolate cake? Ger
. taiuly, as many as yOu wish cackled
Mrs. Cluck-Cluck. when the bunny
told her what he wanted.
So she filled up Uncle Wiggily's
basket for him, and back the rabbit
gentleman started toward his hollow
thinking on the way. how good the
chocolate cake would taste after
Nurse Jane had made IL.
But alas, Something always seem
TO be happening Uncle Wiggiiyi All
Of a sudden. as he was carefully. care
fully hopping along. with the basket
OF eggs on his paw, out from behind
q snow bank jumped the bad old
Skuddlemagoon.
oh. hoi" cried the Skuddlemagoon.
This is my lucky day.
And my unlucky one sadly said
Uncle WiSgily. Did you want 70
see me-
Yes. and more than that said the
SlzuddlemagoOn, I'm going to take
you off to my den with me-"
-Oh. dear" sighed the bunny rab-
bit gentleman "Oh. please. good Mr.
SlSuddlemagoon. don't take me off TO
your den. Please, don't"
Yes. I shallt" exclaiaed the I'M
pleasant chap.
"But what about these eggs2" asked
Uncle Wiggily, as he held out. in the
basket those with which Nurse Jane
was going 10 make him a chocolate
cake. What about the esesg
"PoOhi As II 1 cared for egEs-"
said the SkuddlemagOon- scornful
ike Tut Tut That for an eGgt'
him. the Skuddlemagoon took an egg
from the basket and cracked fl on the
edge Of a flat stump which was
nearby 7 mean the Slzuddlemagoon
cracked an egg. not the basket
The white and the yellow Of the
egg ran out on top Of the flat stump.
making it look something like an
Omelet.
That for your esss~ sneered the
Skuddlemagoon
"Oh, dearI" sadly said Jncle Wig
gily. This is quite too badI Oh. II
ne treats an egg that way, what viii
he do TO me2 1 wonder how I can get
away from this bad chap
Then. as Uncle Wiggi1r saw the
sticky white of the broken egg trick
ling slowly over the flat. top part OF
the stump. the bunny rabbit THOUGHT
OF something to. do.
look here. Mr.. Skuddle1nagoon.~
said Uncle Wiggily. SUPPOSE we sit
down and talk This over. You sit
down on the stump and III sit on the
snow bank. as I want TO keep cool
Wen sit and talk. and maybe YOU
viii think Of something better to do
than taking me off to your den"
NO" said the Skuddlema-oon. 81
VIII not I mean 7 won't think Of
anything better 90 do But. Just to
please YOU IN sit down moment
So he sat down on the stump. and
Uncle Wiggily waited three minutes
and then he suddenly said;
''We ell / guess III be goinSt"
"Tn go with you and take YOU to
ny den" said the Skuddlema-oon.
"Oh. no, No YOU won'tr' cried Tn
Gle Wiggily- You're stuck fast You
can't get up to chase after mer'
And the SkuddlemaEoon couldn't
The white of the broken egg was
ust like paste or mucilage. and held
.he bad animal fast on the stump like
glue. so he couldn't rise up to TAKE
the bunny Thereto the Skuddlema-
COON was stuck.
And IL served him right. 7 am in
clined to think As for Uncle Wig
gily. he hurried home with the rest
or the eggs. and Nurse Jane made q
fine chocolate cake, and the Skuddle-