Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-09-18
Oh, excuse me, MrWhitewash
>olar bear! cried the Pip.

mo! No!' cried the bunny, and
so Nurse Jane couldn't make him
wear tall, white hat, and so the
bunny skipped off over the fields
and through the woods. He was
wearing his tall, black hat, and
he had his red, white and blue
striped rheumatism crutch under
his paw.
Uncle Wiggilys pink nose twin
killed. like cinnamon bun, and he
would have been very happy If he
did not think, every other minute,
about Nurse Jane.
II don't like to disappoint her
but can't wear a white hat" said
the bunny. '"My friends would
think l was trying to be a politi-
clan or act proud-like. No! No!
1t can't be done" =.
Uncle Wiggily hoped on a Bit
farther, and he was wondering
what sort of adventure he might
have, when, all of a sudden, he
heard a sad voice saying.
Dear me, l don't see how In
ever going to get it done! And, II
don't, | can't go playing with the
other fellows!"
THAT sounds like sadness ant
trouble" said Mr.. Longears tc
himself.
He looked around the corner OF
the three and four cent lollypof
bush, and there he saw Billie Wag'
tail, the goat boy, standing beside
q pail near a fence.
whats the matter, Billie"
asked Uncle Wiggily.
ooh, l have to whitewash oul
fence" bleated Billie In answer
''and it isn't any fun. Besides, I've
lost the handle to the whitewasf
brush, and if go off in the woods
to cut another it will take me sc
long / can't play ball with the
other boys
'That is too bad" said kind I'm
Gle Wiggily. u guess. though,
Billie. that / can help you.
"How?" asked the goat chap.
well. | can let you take my
red, white and blue striped rheu'
matism crutch as handle for your
whitewas hN hrush," went on the
bunny. 49,,
"Oh, that will help lott crieo
Rillie. The brush without handlt
was on the ground near the PAL
of whitewash, which was IKE
water full of milk. Uncle Wig
giIy's crutch just fitted IN the noe
in the brush, and, as the bunny
rbeumatism wasn't bad that day
he didn't need the crutch yer!
much. ,,os
Billie dipped the long-handleo
crutch brush in the pail of white
wash. and began to decorate the
fence, while Uncle Wiggily STOOD
,,,atcb;nr, Billie whitewasheo
about board and a half ano
then. all at once, some voices
cried: ,o,,,
"Come on, Billie, and play ball!
cant! got to whitewasn tht
feneep' the goat boy answered :, q.
ooh. skip along and play ball,
said good natured Uncle Wiggily
"Irl whitewash the fence for you
a0h thank you!" bleated the
,oat how. and he handed Uncle
Wieeily the brush. Mr.. Lonkears
after the animal boys had rur
L.
away to play ball, stirred the
whitewash in the pail, and then ne
began to decorate the fence. He
did it very well, too, and when NJ
finished the last board, he acci-
dentally knocked his tall piack
silk hat into the pail OF white'
wash. ,,rny
ooh. my," laughed the bunny
"Now I have a white hat whether
7 want one or not. Well. I'll wear
It home. 1t will please NURSE
So he finished the fence ana III, pu'
the nail and brush away. iiie me-
with his rheumatism crutch' whisl
was now white like his nat TN
bunny started for home -,
He had not gone very far pefore
all of a sudden, as he passed
huckleberry bush, out popped IN
bad old Pip. -,
81 want souse! I want sou--
began the Pip, sand thensfhe sud
denly stopped. "Oh. excuse me