The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-28
opyrlght, 1920, by Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.
BY HOWARD R. cARls.


I 1t was a cold and blowy and snowy |
fnd blustery day in Woodland, near
fhe Orange Ice Mountain, where Uncle |
sWiggily Longears lived The white |
flakes sifted down from the sky az
though Mother Goose were shaking all
Der feather beds at once:
: Susie Littletail, the rabbit girl, eX-
fused herself from the breakfast table,
and took some crumbs in her paw.
I Are you going to take those crumbs
10 school for your lunch at recess |
Susie?' asked Sammie
! Nope! There isn't any school today |
Us Saturday" said Susie with laugh
gThese crumbs are for my sparrows
lh no. Sommie didn't know it was
Saturday! That's the time he was
iooledt''a laughed Susie, and singing a
funny lttIe song and trying Tying to w Pin5Is
tWinkled his pink one, Susie with the
crumbs in her paws hurried to the
back door
'IIurray! IT is Saturday and ! surely.
did forget said Samnlie. I'm going
out and slide down hill with Johnnie
and Billie Bushytail." 4
We'll, don't get your paws wet"
cautioned Nurse Jane. II must see
what Susie is doing.
80 must J." spoke Uncle Wiggly,
as he arose from the breakfast table.
Il didn't know Susie had any spar
"Oh, Of coutse they aren't really
mine" said the little rabbit girl as
she scattered some bread crumbs out
ON the steps But when it SHOWS the
sparrows and other winter birds can't
find things to eat. You never can tell
when you might want even a sparrow
TO do you a favor, went on Susie.
oh, no! How could a sparrow ever
do you a favor?' asked Sammie, as ne
rushed out with his sled.
Susie is right, you never can tell
said Uncle Wiggily, as he watched the
hungry birds fly down out of a tree and
pick up Suses crumbs, pickle and
Nellie Chip Chip, the sparrow children
used to bring me letters, and do other
favors. Indeed you never know when
you may need the help of a sparrow
"Oh, l don't believe sparrows ever
help any one" said Sammie, and away
he ran to coast in the snow with the
two Bushytail squirrel boys.
Susie tossed out more crumbs which
the sparrows We're glad to get, and then
she helped her mother and Nurse Jane
around the house.
DO you want anything from the
store?" asked Uncle Wiggily, after, a
while, as he put on his tall silk~hat, his
fur coat and his red, white and blue
striped rheumatism crutch and started
out.
You might bring some crackers and
molasses cookies if you please, spoke
Il will" said Uncle wiggily, and away
he hoped over the snowy fields and
through the woods. He bought the
crackers and cookies, and on his way
home he saw Sammie Littletail sliding
down hill with the other animal boys,
cookies" said the bunny rabbit gentle
man to himself. "They must be hun
And indeed Sammie and his friends
We're. Uncle Wiggily had bought some
extra cookies and there were enough
for each boy to have three.
Sammie and the other animal chaps
stuffed their cookies in their pockets.
so they could reach in and break oil
small pieces as they wanted them, Tor
it was too cold to hold a whole cookie
in you paw until it was eaten-untll
the cookie was eaten l mean not the
paw.
Uncle Wiggily watched Sammie coast
down hill for a while. the rabbit boy
eating his cookies piece by piece from
his pocket, and then Mr.. LongearS
started back for the Underground
house
lie had not gone very far before he
beard a voice callingsatter him
Wait a minute, Uncle Wiggily' Wait
gracious nc, satos alive and some
Iofypop soup" exclaimed the bunny
tine Skeezicks or Pipstsewah,'
lie turned, all ready to run in ease
81 danger, but he only saw Sammie,
the rabbit boy, hurrying after him
with his sled -,
1'l.Iet you pun me home" said Sammie,
ITS too cold to coast any more,
AN rfght,' laughed Mr.. Longears,
and he waited for Sammic to catch up
to him The little robbit boy hurried
and ran so fast that, all of a sudden,
he stumbled and fell right in a big
snow bank.
oh, dear met
Nonsense, You're not hurt laughed
Uncle Wiggly, running to pick him
up. "You cant get hurt falling into
Il soft snow bank"
II know I'm not hurt" said sam
mic, as he brushed the white crystals
OF. "but when | fell all the pennies
bounced out of my pocket. | had ten
pennies, and now they're all gone-in
The snow. OH dear, Boohoo"
Never mind, IN help you look for
thpm," said Uncle Wiggily. He and
Sammie looked, but you know how 1t is
,yhen YOU drop anything in the snow
is very hard to find. and not a penny
1uld the rabbit gentleman and little
boy sec.
Al of sudden some sparrow flut-
4, tered down out of a tree and began
To pick things out Of the SNOW.
Why these are some of Susies' :
,srarrows" said Sammie TEL me,
he aswed the birds arc you picking W
my lost penniss?"
No, We are picking. up the moiasscs