El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-22

once upon a tins Nurse Jane
l ] Fuzzy WuzEy. the muszrat lady
housekeeper for Uncle WigEily.
was busy in the kitchen OF the hol-
low stump bungalow.
what are you doing. Mss Fuzzy
WuEzyl' asked the bunny rabbit gen
tIsman. as he made low and polite
bow with his tall silk hat while his
pink nose twinkled like q straw berry
IN a diamond ring
Il am making a cocoanut cake"
answered Nurse Jane
Nay helpT" asked Uncle WisEily.
who was always anxious TO do little
things around the bungalow.
You may fix the cocanut for me-"
answered Nurse Jane Take the
crater and rub some OF the white
pieces OF cocoanur up and down on It.
The rough crater VIII shred the CO.
coanut nice and fine so I can put 20
in the cake"
Right gladly viii I do that spoke
Uncle WiEElly. like a moving picture.
and, taking of his black coat. his red
vest and hanging his hat on the back
Of a chair, he started % help Nurse
Jane.
Uncle wisgily was grating away at
the cocoanut. and he was thinking
what a dandy cake Nurse Jane was
going 70 make when, all OF a sudden.
At the open window OF the kitchen
1fr. Longears heard Q voice say
We'll how Is your sousel
The bunny looked up and there he
saw a funny creature, with a face
Ike a jack olantern looking In a.
him.
'-Souse7 You can't have any OF my
souse.' cried Uncle Wiggily, and be-
fore he knew what be was doing he
threw the tin crater through the win
dow, right I'm the pumpkin jack olan-
tern face OF the bad chap that had
I asked about souse-
''Therei Take that.' cried Uncle
Wiggily. and The funny animal gave
/ a loud yell Of ~Ouchr and ran away.
"Ohs Uncle Wigguy- I hope you
aren't hurt-' exclaimed Nurse Jane
"No, I'm all right answered The
+ bunny gentleman. "But j fear ] have
! lost your cocoanut crater i threw i
out Of the window az the pumpkin
I fallen in the weeds III see II can
get 20 and finish grating the cocoa
nut Tor the cake
: Uncle Wiggily looked among the
I weeds under the window Tor the
7 crater. but it was not 20 be found
was OF no use The crater was gone.
Maybe that bad animal took IT,
L said the muskrat lady
Il think not" answered Uncle Wig
I gily. 1T must be hidden somewhere
I around But the more he and Nurse
] Jane Looked the less they found, and
[ finally the muskrat lady said
'WeI, I must 60 IN and finish my
& cake"
And III take a hop 90 the six and
Z seven cent store and set a new crater
I and then I can finish shredding the
] cocoanut" spoke Uncle WISELY
over the fields and through the
I woods he hoped, but when he was
I half way 20 the eleven and twelve
y cent store he saw Jacko kinEytail'
D the monkey boy. picking up from the
y ground some cones from a pine tree,
I off which they had fallen
Hello. Jackol" called Uncle Wig
I gily. why are you picking UP the
] pine cones2 They are not as good as
/ ice cream cones. and though / know
I some birds and squirrels eat the seeds
Z IN the pine cones 7 never heard you
I were fond Of them"
"Oh. 7 don't eat the pine tree cones,
Z Chartered the monkey boy. But my
I mother IS making a cocoanut cake
I AID she broke her Erater- So she
/ sent me QUITO get some OF these
I cones. They are rough. just like the
tin Eraters you buy in the drug store