El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-10-16

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w Uncle WigBily2' asked Nurse
Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, OF the rab-
bit gentleman one morning
why. TO an apple pie I always say:
How DO you do2 Pleased to meet you-
Come againr That's what I say 70 an
apple piel" laughed the bunny uncle.
"Oh. I didn't mean just that" spoke
the muskrat lady housekeeper with a
smile i meant TO ask II you wanted
an apple pie badly enough TO pick
me some apples so I could make one"
"Of course I'll do that" said Uncle
Wiggily. Il picked you some ripe and
green grapes yesterday for jellE and
I had a funny adventure with the
bushy bear, who got his mouth all
puckered up eating sour grapes Now
I'll pick some spples for a pie. and I
may have another adventure
But not with a bear, hope" eL-
claimed Nurse Jane. Gracious me
sakes alive and some orange Juice
lollypopsi The apple trees are too
near the house TO have e bear snoop-
ing around them"
"Oh, I don't believe any bears VIII
come around" said Uncle WlEgily. If
they do. IN Just bang them on the
ends OF their soft and tender noses
with a hard apple, and they'll be glad
enough 10 run home and let me alone
wen. be careful and don't fall
I said Nurse Jane, as Uncle Wiggily
took the ladder and started FOR the
orchard where the apple pies grew
don't exactly mean that apple pies
grow on trees But apples come of
[ trees and when apples are peeled. cut
up and put in between the layers OF
crust, as baby IS put in her crib, and
I when the apples and crust, with Gin
namon on, are baked in the oven
that's pie. So, after all, a pie really
comes off a tree, doesn't it,"
Uncle Wiggily. with a basket on
one paw and the ladder over his
shoulder went into the orchard. which
was not Tar from his hollow stump
bungalow. The bunny gentleman sang
this little song:
Apple pies I dearly love.
And I'm glad to see,
That so many apples
Grow upon a tree"
Then the leaned the ladder against
the talest tree in the orchard. climbed
up and began to pick apples of
dropping them into the basket
Uncle Wiggily was just thinking
how good Nurse Jane was TO make him
apple pies, and he was wondering If
he had not better sing the second
verse Of the little song, when all OF
sudden, he felt the ladder slipping
from beneath his paws.
oh my goodness me-sakes alive
and a basket fun Of soap bubblesg
cried the bunny rabbit gentleman, and
he had just time TO grab hold Of a
branch over his head, with his front
paws, when the ladder slipped com
pletely away from his hind paws and
left him hanging there.
Then by twisting and turning. Uncle
Wiggily managed 10 stand upon a
high branch, hooking the basket,
partly filled with apples, on a limb
near him
-Myi That was a lucky escape Tor
mel" cried Uncle WiEgily. looking
down from where he was high up IN
the tree. I wonder what made that
ladder fall?'
I made it fair snarled a voice
down on the ground below. Il
wanted to have you up a tree. so you
couldn't get down. so I pulled the
ladder away with my claws. Now I'm
coming up to get you"
who are your asked Uncle Wig
gilys as he saw q creature, all covered
with fur at the foot OF the apple tree.
I'm Vow VOW, the wild cat" was
the answer. I'm not at all like Jole.
Tommie and Kittie kat Pm a big
wild cat and I'm coming up the tree
to get you'll"
"oh, please don'ti" begged Uncle