The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-03-03
Copyright, 1920, by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
BY HOWARD u. GARIS.

BY HOWARD r. eARls.
Uncle Wiggily! Oh. Uncle Wiggily!"
chartered Billie Bushytail, the squirrel
boy. on the morning after the old gem
tleman rabbit and Nurse Jane Fuzzy
Wuzzy had come to pay a little visit.
"Oh, no, Uncle Wiggily!"
We'll what's the matter now"
asked the bunny, as he finished his
breakfast of hickory nut pancakes with
maple. sugar gravy sprinkled around
the edges.
"Oh, will you walk to school with
Johnnie and me?" asked Billie, as he
fastened his books together with a
long narrow strap of white birch bark.
Yes. do come to school with us"
begged Johnnie. I'VE haven't seen you
as, much as Sammie and Susie Little
tail have. for you stayed with them
long time. Walk to school with us,
please?"'
"Oh, couldn't do that-at least not
this morning." Uncle Wiggily answered.
Il must go back to the Lttletail bur
row house after few things Nurse
Jane and left there. But I'll meet you
after school and see what happens then,
boys!" ~ MINI. 80,
Johnnie. We'll look for a nice ad-
venture for you. Uncle Wiggily!
Thank you!" laughed the rabbit gem
tleman.
Then the squirrel boys hurried on to
school thinking how nice it would be
to meet Uncle Wiggily. afterward The
rabbit gentleman having twinkled his
pink nose about half a dozen times !;
through the woods to get the. things
he and Nurse Jane had left in the rab-
bit burrow ~.
"Oh, have you come back to stay?"
asked Mrs. Littletail, when she saw
Uncle Wiggily again.
Not this time!" he laughed, Il am
to meet Johnnie and Billie after school,
How are Sammie and Susie?'
"Oh. they are all right, but lone
some for you" their mother answered.
Wiggily hoped back to the squirrel
He said he would and then. having
taken his things. with Nurse James. to
the squirrel house, Uncle Wiggily be-
gan to wonder what he could do next. .
and Billie to be coming from school,
SO | can meet them as | promised" said
Uncle Wiggily to himself. But | can
hop along toward the hollow stump
where the lady mouse teaches the anil
nal children, and perhaps. who knows
| may find an adventure. 1t would be
nice to have two in one day"
over the fields and through the woods
hoped Uncle Wiggily., and, just as ne
was passing a little hol in the ground
basket on her leg. The basket was
filled with teeny-weeny Ioaves OF bread
each about as large as the point of a
small pin, and before Uncle Wiggily
knew it. the tail of his coat Tapped
against the little ant lady, A..
basket off her leg, knocked It to the
ground-knocked the basket, l mean,
and scattered the tiny loaves of bread
all over. Ar, .,,4 -,
aside his red. white and blue striped
rheumatism crutch, the rabbit gentle
man began helping the ant lady &c
pick up the tiny leaves of OF b re dihem &,
begged the ant lady. Il am taking
them home to my hungry children.
INV YOU must have a lot OF chill
dren," said the rabbit gentleman, sur
prised like, as he saw how many tiny
ioaves of bread there were. .....,.,
Il "Oh. | haye!" the ant lady answered
Il have nine hundred and thirty-seveI
l. children and there were nine hundred
Wind thirty loaves of bread in my
basket, was just bringing them from
the bake shop"
Uncle Wiggily looked at the littl'
hole in the ground from when tne an
lady had come and, surely enough /
i was the front door of an insect bakery
I'm pick up all the little loaves o
bread for YOU" said Uncle Wiggiy, al
he stooped over and began gathering
Yhe tiny things, no larger than points
IT was hard work for Uncle Wiggly
but he kept at it. and soon he and tn
ant lady had picked UP every loaf.
Now il you'll put them in my bas
ket" said the ant lady, all viii b
we'll" with,
looked for the ant ladys bread baske
il was all smashed and broken, and o
no use at all. 1t had been broken wheI
pear mel" said the ant lady; g
never can carry all these tiny loaVes
bread without a basket"
"That's So said Uncle Wiggily
scratching his pink nose with his tai
silk hat. And any basket | could ge
YOU would be miles too big. oh, dear
How careless of mel!
whats the matter, Uncle Wiggily?
suddenly asked a voice. and there wa
billie Bushvtail, the boy squirrel, in
tree overhead. The lady mouse teache
had let him out of school early be
cause he was a good squirrel.
ooh, lots is the matter, answere
the rabbit gentleman. 81 have spille
the ant lady's loaves and broken he
lSread basket. The last is the wors
for, though we have picked up the tin
leaves we have no basket small enoug
in which to put them.
"Oh. that's easy!" chatted Billie.
can make you little basket"
Can you make one small enough
carry loayes of bread no larger tina