El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-01-28
Bedtime Stories For The Little Ones
UNCLE wIGGILY AND SAlllnE'S DOOR STOP.

'Sammie, DO you want 70 surprise
your mother and Nurse Jane|
"Yes'm mean yes, sir How!
By making a door stop. to keep the
dining room door from slammlng
shut" wen on the bunny uncle You
3 can carve something out OF wood
something shaped like an orange or
pineapple or even shaped like
moniey-on-a-stlc II you like, Make
something cut out OF wood with your
knife, and then fasten it to a heavy
stone so when you set It down IN
front of an open door 1t VIII stop the
door from blowing shut That's a
door stop. sammie, my boy
fTl make one" exclaimed the rab-
bit chap. And then. very kindly Civ
ing up his time that he might have
spent sliding down hill OF skating.
Sammie began to cut e door stop out
OF a chung Of soft wood he found In
the shed
All Of a sudden. as sammie was cut
ting away with his knife, he began to
~Hai Hal III do itI- he said to
himself -Tll carve a door stop shaped
Just Ike Uncle Wiggilyl III make
it with big. long ears, ike his, and
then. when he Is out looking for ad-
Venture, mother and Nurse Jane viii
not pe so lonesome It VIII be as
good as having his photograph hang
ing on AAAI ~ ---- - - ------
Uncle Wfggily door stop
So Samnie, with the kni1e the bun
ny gentleman had given him Tor
Christmas, carved out piece o.
wood shaped Just like Uncle Wiggiiy,
only not quite so large, OF course
AM then to the bottom Of the wooden
rabbit Sammie fastened a tlat stone
tying it with string. II was as
heavy as a brick
There, now your door wont siam
- q
as he finished his work and took the
carved wooden rabbit IN the burroW
This VIII stop the door from bang
Soh. how kind Of you, sammie,"
aPerfsctiy sweet OF you" exclaimed
And when the rabbit door stop
weighted with the piece OF stone, was
set in front Of the dining room door
il could not blow shut. no matter nov
much breeze there was
Every one said Sammie was very
smart and the rabbit boy himself was
glad Uncle Wiggily had told him now
TO make a door stop And now In
going 70 tell you what happnened
one warm day the outside door OF
the underground house was le1t open
Uncle TViggily had gone TO look for an
adventure, and Mrs Littetal and
Nurse zane nd4 EA41 u nc A---A
fence TO speak TO Mrs. Wibblewobble,
the duck lady, TO ask her the best way
to make blue clothes red on wash day
And into the burrow sne7ked the
bad old Skeeziclzs-
Maybe III find Uncle Wiggily
asleep in his easy chair. and can get
his souse before he wakes up" snick-
cred the Skee.
Into the burrow came the Skee- He
looked toward the dining ROOM being
hungry for souse.
oh, there's Uncle Wiggily, right BY
the door," whispered the Skee to him
self. He looks q little snaller-guess
the cold must have shrunk him But
III get his souse.
He made a jump, grabbed up a Tab-
bit, and was out OF doors In the
twinklng OF an eye Far over the
fields and through the woods ran the
Szee, and then he stopped
Now for your souse, Uncle Wig
Eilyi7 he cried. And then such howl
as the SAee gave.
Fooled againf" he cried. This Isl
only a wooden rabbit made 70 look
like Uncle Wiggilyi Oh, trolleycars-"
The Skee had taken Samnie's door
stop in mistake for NJ. Longears, but
after that the door never slammed. So
= the SNOWFALL doesn't throw bean
bags at the goldfish and make It jump
cut OF the bath tub. III tell you next
about Uncle Wiggily and Susie's nit
tens.-Copyrig1l 1920, BY Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.