El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-01-21
Bedtime Stories For The Little Ones
UNCLE wIGGMY AND SAMBuE LITTLETAH


Z will promised Sammie- But
where are my skates2"
( Here they are" said s-sie. who
Z was Sammie's sister You leIl them
: out in the woodshed."
/ oh. so did I forgott' cried sam
l ME, trying 70 make his nose lWlnkie'
as did Uncle Wiggily's-
/ Then the two rabbit children started
I for school, Susie sliding along on the
/ icy places, with Lulu and Alice Ml1-
I bleWobble. the duck children, WINE
: Sammie, and Jimmie, the duck ooEi
and the two squirrel chaps, with the
beaver lads and Billie Wagtah, the
goat, threw snowballs at trees ana
while Nurse Jane helped Mrs. Lit
/ tletail with the dishes. Uncle Migglly
went over TO the place where MS mol
I low stump bungalow had burned
III see If I can save anything rom
the ashes" he said to himself 1t was
bad luck to have fire in the middle
Of winter, but IL might be worse
might not have any good friends like
Mr. and MIS- Littletail, and Sammie
and Susie. to take Nurse Jane and me
in. It might be a great deal worse
am not going to tel you that
Sammie, the rabbit boy, did very wen
with his lessons at school that day
He was thinking too much about the
FUN he was going to have skating
after school, And when the lady
mouse teacher asked Sammie how
may times two went into four, the
rabbit boy answered:
Two skates and part OF another
at is easy to see what you are
thinking OF, Sammie," said the LADY
mouse. susie, you may tell me"
And Susie gave the right answer
But Sammie was not kept in, though
he had TO 90 down one place in class.
And after school he and the squirrel
boys and the other animal lads hur-
ried over to the frozen duck pond
ocean, where they put on their skates
and began TO have some fun
Let's have a racei" cried Sammie.
Lets see who viii first get to the
far end OF the pond"
"Oh. you'd better not 90 therew
cried Susie, VINO. with the Wibblewob-
bic duck girls, and some other friends,
had stopped on the edge Of the pond
TO watch the boys You'd better not
go down there, Sammie Littletaili"
Why nOtg" asked her brother.
Because the ice is thin and you'll
fan in" said Susie.
"Oh, I guess not" sammis replied.
Independent like.
Yes, you willrs quaeked Lulu. the
duck girl
But Sammie and the other animal
boys did not pay much attention to
what the girls said. Soon the rabbit
lad with the squirrels and others. had
on their skates, and down the pond
they glided.
Sammie was ahead Of all the rest,
and he was skating very fast toward
the far end OF the pond.
Don't 90 therel Don't 20 therei"
quacked Alice, the duck girl.
But Sammie, like many another ami
nal boy, thought he knew best. On
and on he skated, and he was just
turning around 10 laugh at the other
skating chaps when, AL Of a sudden.
something happened
Crack Clatter. Boomi Crashi"
sounded over the pond. Then the ice
broke, and Sammie, skates and all,
fell through into the cold. water.
"Ohi On, looki' screlme6 Susie
Ny brother is in the pondf"
She was going to rush over the ice
to. Try 70 pull Sammie out, but a voice
cried:
stand back Keep away, Susie. OF
you'n fan in YOURSELF I'll get sam
ME outl''
Up rushed Uncle WiggiIy. On his
paw was long clothesline. He had
found Il on the posts in the yard back
OF his burned bungalow. The fire had
not burned the clothesline OF posts
Here, Sammiei Catch hold OF
thisi" cried the rabbit gentleman,
linging the end OF the line out to
sammie, as a cowboy lassos a wild
horse Catch holdF'
saulmies who was Eraspinz the edge
OF the broken ice OF the hole with one