El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-01-23
Bedtime Stories FOrTHe Little Ones
UNCLE WIGGILY AND sAAMIE's CARROT


Nom, I won't" promised Sammie
! Nurse Jane wrapped the carrot VI
in a sheet Of paper. II was a whole
D carrot, boiled in one piece, and it was
as sharp pointed on the end as an ice
I cream cone
( Il hope the sharp end Of the carrot
I won't stick in SamTnie." said Uncle
/ Wiggily. who was reading the morn
l ing paper
IF it does it is so soft. like rubber
I that IL viii not hurt him. spoke
I Nurse Jane. soft boiled carrots car
! do no harm to any one"
] So Sammie found his books and hur-
ried off TO school with the boiled car
rot in his pocket His sister Susie
had gone on ahead with BrighteyeS
the guinea pig girl, and Lulu and
] Slice WibblewObble. the ducks
7 guess I'd better hurry or I may
be late" said Sammie, as he hunted
for his mitrens, which he finally
found under the kitchen stove, where
he had put them TO dry when he came
in from playing SNOWFALL tag the
night before.
wait a moment and III come with
you. said Uncle Wiggily to his rabbit
nephew.
fAre you coming to schoolg' asked
Sammie- I hope you do. We don't
have so many lessons when visitors
come"
NO. I am not going to visit the
hollow stump school today" spoke
Uncle Wiggily, with a twinkle Of his
pink nose. 4 may, some other time,
Just now lam going TO call on Grand
pa Goose Gander. He has a new
game in Scotch Checkers he wants to
show me He says II is very funny
Well wrap up warmly. both Of
you" called Nurse Jane TO the rabbit
gentleman and little boy 1T is very
cold out-freezing cold"
ME left the warm burrow. or under
ground house, they were glad they
had on their FUR coats. For It was
cold and snowy and blustry and bloWy
in Woodland near the Orange Ice
Uncle WiggiIy and Samnie hoped
over the fields and through the forest
on the way 10 the hollow stump
school. It kept growing colder and
colder and even though the bunny
rabbit gentleman and his nephew
tWinkled their pink noses as fast as
they could, still they felt chilly
All Of a sudden, just as he was
taking a slide on a little brook that
vas frozen over, Sammie felt some
thing pulling on the ends OF his long
scarf that was tied around his neck.
Is that you, Uncle Wiggily2' asked
sammie. for he had run on ahead TO
take the slide Are you pulling my
scarf2"
NO Sammie. 7 am not" answered
the rabbit gentleman. and he spoke
IN such a sad and sorrowfu1 voice that
Sammie turned in establishment. And
what he saw made him all the more z
For Uncle WIggily was held fast by ]
the bad old Bazoop, and il was the Z
queer, unpleasant chap who had Z
ineaked up and pulled Sammie's scarf 4
"Ah, hai Now have the two Of 4
v0uf" cried the Bazoop. Now for a
lot OF souse-cold sousei I like the
sold kind all the better-freezing 1
soldl" and he looked hungrily at the 4
sars OF Uncle Wiggily and Sammie.
-Oh, oear-' cried the rabbit boy,
please let Uncle Wiggily and ne go /
10 SCHOOL,
NO NO." gibbered the Bazoop. !
VIA had sneaked up behind Mr.. Long 1
ears and Sammie and had caught I
hem both II was so cold that they
ZACH had their heads wrapped up in
/ warm scarf. and that Is why they
lid not hear the Bazoop. NO, I'll not
ct either Of you 90 until I have had
ny sousei" grOwled the bad chap.
''Oh, i only had a buttonhook, Or
WITH whispered the bunny gentle
nan
i've got the boiled carrot Nurse
ans gave me" Sammie whispered /
ack-
That would be too soft-too much
Ike wabbly rubber" said Uncle Wig
ily. Sammie put his paw in hts
OcEet and felt Of the carrot. Then,
nth a cry, he pulled II out.
Here. take it. Uncle Wfegilvf"
ried the rabbit boy The carrot Is