El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-01-14
Bedtime Stories For The Little Ones
UNCLE WTGGILY AND THE WHIRLIGIG.
~ HnLaHn EanIg

but may I not have the pleasure, o.
helping You out Of your trouble! Whai
Z is the natter!
a whirligig," answered the goat
"a what2" asked Uncle Wigglly IN
I surprise. You must excuse me again,
I il YOU viii be so kind" he went on. i
! have heard Of many kinds Of trouble,
I and been in some few myself out
I never, up to this moment heard tell OF
Here it is" said the goat, and
J stopping over, he took something from
! the bag.
I It looked like a Iouypop stick, with
a flat uGHce OF wood stuck crossways
/ on the end. The fiat piece Of wood
I was shaped like the propeller OF an
airship.
This IS the SThiligig," said the goat,
"and il goes this way" Quickly he
Z twirled the lollypop stick between MS
paws. The fiat, crOssways piece or
wood on the end whirled around as
does an electric ian, and the thing
amabob went up in the air like a
kite. or balloon Up and up Il sailed,
twisting around and around and then
il came down
"Oh, so that's the way the whirli-
gig works, is it," asked Uncle Wig
gily-
That's the way" answered the
goat Il make them myself, out Of old
umbrella handles and lead pencils.
sell them to children 70 play with.
They pretend the whirligig are air
ships. But today I had bad luck
did not sell all my Whirligigs. and I
can't 90 home and get my dinner OF
rusty can soup until I sell every last
one I have only one left and
IN take that whirllgigi" said I'm
Gle Wiggily quickly. I can give II 10
Sammie Litteltal or one Of the Bushy-
tail squirrel brothers," he added.
-Of course YOU can't laughed the
goat gentleman. as pleased as PIE now
that he had sold the last one. Uncle.
Wiggily paid for the whirligig, the
goat chap folded up his empty bag
and started for home to get his rusty
tin can soup and the bunny gentle
man hoped toward his hollow stump
bungalow.
wen. il I didn't meet with an ad-
venture have something 10 show
Uncle Wiggily, as he tWinkled his
pink nose. He was just turning the
corner Of a peppermint tree when, all
Of sudden, out from behind IL,
jumped the queer old Bszippa-
'-Ah, hai Now have you" cried the
Bazippas who is a chap something
ike the PIpsisewah, only with a very
long and slender neck, resembling a
knitting needle Il have your cried
the Bazippa- and he caught hold Of
Uncle Wiggily's tall. silk hat
what are you going 10 do TO me2'
asked the bunny.
Nibble souse of your ears-vghat
elsez" replied the Bazippa- And he
was just going TO do that when In
Gle Wiggily happened TO think OF the
Whirligig he had bought
Maybe n I spin that around the
Bazippa viii look at Il for such long
time that I may have a chance TO get
: - said 20
quickly taking the whirligig out Of
his pocket, the rabbit gentleman spun
.t around I'D in the air IL went
Hi therel What's that2' cried the
Bazippa, who had never seen a whirli- /
gig before. And he was so surprised. 4
the Bazippa was. that he leaned back I
his head and looked Up at the queer 4
-oy- And as the whirligig went higher /
and higher and around and around. /
the Bazippa made his head 20 around I
and around, also, for fear OF losing /
sight Of the spinning plaything. And 1
The faster the whirligig spun the fas- ]
Ter the Bazippa twisted his neck IN I
Well, you remember Z told YOU his /
neck was thin, like a knitting needle
and. please believe me when I say
hat he turned his head around so
much. watching the whirligig. that all /
u sudden the Bazippa's neck turned
INTO a corckscrew, all quIrlzy Ike, and
he could not get it untwisted in a
hurry.
Hal Hai Now you can't bite any
'ouse of my earsl" cried Uncle Wig
sily. nor could the Bazippa- for II took
lim half an hour TO untwist his cork
screw neck
But by that time Uncle Wiggily had I
licked up the whirligig. which had
allen TO the ground, and the bunny
an away with his ear souse, safely
reaching his bungalow. And II the
pickle DOESN'T try 70 slide down the
roning board when the lemon Is
,hasing IL 10 make Il jump over the
,offee pot. III tell you next about IN
,le Wiggily and the hot soup.-Copy-
-ight, 1920 BY Mcclure Newspaper
syndicate.