El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-12-07
Bedtime Stories For The Little Ones
UNCLE wIGanY AND TEE BLUE FEATHER

@OH Uncle Wiggslyl VIII you
/ - please bring me one when you
come homer begged Baby
I Bunty, the little rabbit girl OF NJ.
I LongeErs, the gentleman bunny one
day.
zone what1" asked 1Ir. Longears.
who was taking his red, white and
/ blue striped rheumatism crutch down
off the clock shelf so he could lean
{ on it and hop away from his hollow
stump bungalow and look for an adj
venture. do you want an ice cream
cone or pint Of peanuts BABY
Neither one" answered the little
rabbit gil. who had come on q visit
10 spend the Christmas holidays
what want Uncle Wiggilyi j. a
feather for my new hat Nurse Jane
Fuzzy WuEEy bought me the hat, but
they had no feathers in the seven and
eight cent store wish you would
bring me onet
Il WIZ promised Uncle wisely
! am not very good at shopping Cor
hats, bounetsY dress goods or things
like that" he said. "but I think I can
manage 10 bring you back q feather,
Baby Buntg. Don't you want TO come
with mel
NO thank YOU" answered Baby
Bunty. i am going 10 stay and help
Nurse Jane wash the dishes" and as
she said this Baby Bunty sang little
soap suds song
This was very brave o. her. for
really she would have liked very
much going adventuriug with Uncle
Niggiiy. But she was also anxious
TO nelp Nurse Jane.
So while Baby Bunty and the musk
rat lady housekeeper worked in the
hollow stump bungalow Uncle Wiggily
the woods 10 look for an adventure.
and I must not forget Baby
Bunty's feather" said the rabbit gen
tleman. I certainly must not forget
that! III get her the prettiest one
I can find for her hat"
But this was not as easy as he had
thought. First Uncle WigElly went 70
the coop Of Charlie and Araoellar me
chicken children
ANY loose feathers today, AIRS
Chick2' asked the bunny OF the hen
lady. i want one for Baby Bunty.s
hat, or bonnet or whatever you cali
.Oh. dear I am so sorryF' clueked
Mrs, Chick i swept out an the extra
feathers yesterday! If Charlie were
only here he might have loose
feather in his tail you could pull out
-Oh. wouldn't dream Of that-' said
Uncle Wiggily- Never mind, AIRS
Chick, III hop over to the Wibble-
wobble duck pen and get feather
there. One from Lulu Alice or jim
mie VIII answer very WELL
So the bunny uncle hoped over 70
the Wibblewobble duck pen
"Oh, my dear Uncle Wigglly!' said
Mrs. Wibblewobble u am so sorryl
But 7 just swept every loose feather
out Of our pen yesterday. II Lulu I
Alice or Jimmie were here, they might I
let you pull one out Of their tails
Tut Tut" ] wouldn't dream OF ill' /
said Uncle Wiggily. twinkllng his I
pink nose. i dare say / shall find a I
feather somewhere in the woods!'
So he hoped on through the forest I
looking here and there for feathers 4
but as there had been a high VIVID in I
the night. any feathers that might ]
have been dropped from the winter f.
birds had been blown away
Dear me- said Uncle Wiggily 20 f.
himself, as he skipped along, poking 4
the leaves over with his red, Whlte and /
blue striped rheumatism crutch. I
Baby Bunty viii be so disappointed i
IL I don't find a feather for heri ] /
simply must get oueW
But, though he looked everywhere. {
NOT q feather could he pick up ana, 4
sad and sorrowful, he turned back I
toward his hollow stump bungalow
he was wondering what be could /
say TO Baby Bunting. when, all OF a /
sudden. Uncle Wiggily heard Nurse /
Jane crying.
Go on now. IL you please. Fly away 1
and do your sCreeching somewhere ]
el7e- You make my ears achei Flut- I
ter alnnrw