El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-03

aOH Uncle Wiggily. will you please
read me a Bedtime story
asked Saueakie Eekie, the cousin
mouse. as she scrambled up on me
porch Of the rabbit gentleman mol
low stump bungalow one day
"A Redtime storyg" laughed Uncle
Wigrilv. as he felt in his pocket for
his classes TO look at the paper
Squeakie Eekie held in her paw
why. this is no time for bed 1t Is
only afternoon"
well. 1 thought I'd ask you now.
cause maybe this evening you'll ne
coinr TO the movies. or looking for an
adventure" spoke the little cousin
mouse. Here is the paper with the
Bedtime story in. II tells all about
YOU and the White Butterfly
ooh yes I remember that story
said Uncle WiEgily. well. II I can
find my glasses I'll read it-but only
once. mind youi" he said. shaking his
paw at the cousin mouse
once is enough" laughed Squeakie
Eekie. And III 80 get your glasses
il you haven't them
Here they arew cried JoIlie Long
tail, the mousie boy
JoIHe came along just then, holding
Up a pair or spectacles-
Hum, How did you come 70 have
my glasses2" asked Uncle Wiggily-
II must have dropped them Well,
here we 20 for the Bedtime story
He put on the spectacles that Jollie
handed him, and Squeakie Eekie, the
cousin mouse. wondered why Jollie
winked his eye at her. She knew a
moment later. for Uncle Wiggily
I laughed and cried out:
These aren't my glasses at all!
Z You fooled me, Jollie- These are
I spectacles with pieces of looking
glass in them All 1 can see are the
] reflections OF my own eyes- I can
see TO read the Bedtime Story"
Yes, those are. trick glasses said
| the little mousie boy Il got them at
the 10 and 11-cent store TO have
some fun. I hope you didn't mind
my joke, Uncle Wiggily.
"Oh, not at all, laughed the bun
ny. Il guess have my own glasses
I in my pocket. III read the Bedtime
story through them and III keep
yours, and maybe later ! can play 2
Joke on Uncle Butter. the goat saio
I Mr.. Longears. So he put Jollie S
] looking glass spectacles in his pocket
and road with his own, Uncle Wiggi-
Ily did. Jollie and Squeakie Eekie
the cousin mouse, liked the Bedtime
Story about the White Butterfly
very much and they held their
bresths where IL told about Uncle
Wiggily and Nurse Jane being lost
IN the dark woods.
ooh. read US another" begged
Isqueakie Eekie. when the story was
finished.
mot now" said Uncle Wiggily. %
must go look for an adventure"
So off started the nice old gentle
man rabbit. with the funny looking
glass spectacles in his pocket Up anc
down through the woods and over the
fields he hoped. searching for an ad-
venture, and he was Just going C
have a funny one with an old toad
lady. who wanted to see il she
couldn't hop farther than the bunny
when, all OF a sudden, out from IN
der a peppermint tree came the bad
old Whiffie Whaffie-
We'll. I'm glad I met you saic
the Whiffie Whaffie to Uncle Wig
giIy, blinking the eyes OF his tac'
that was wide awake The other race
was asleep. As 1 told you. the Whit
fie Whaffie had two heads-when one
was awake the other was asleep, anS
when the other was asleep the on
was awake. I'm very glad have
met you" went on the bad creature
looking hard at Uncle Wiggily viii
his Wakeful face.
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