El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-03-24

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j For Nurse Jane quickly said;
i IF you want to help Wen be glad to
/ have you Some Of the rugs need
/ beating. Uncle Wiggily, 20 knock the
dust out Of them. and you may. very
{ properly. do that"
well. 7 see I am in FOR IT," thought
I the old rabbit gentleman 70 himself.
J III have TO beat the rugs and car
| pet now. Next time I'll find out what
I they're talking about before offer 70
[ help"
50 being a good. kind. gentlemanly
D rabbit. always ready TO do what he
could for the ladies, Uncle Wiggily
I took off his tall silk hat, put on his
T cap and old clothes, and then he be-
Z gan 20 carry the rugs out in the yard
I TO put them over line and beat the
| dust out
I'll just take it slow and easy Ike, q"
thought the old gentleman rabbit. as
i he fixed one rug over the line 50 that
: il hung down on both sides. with n
! nice place I'm between like a tent. when
the two sides Of the rug were spread
Z out Its no good 10 beat a rug too
Z hard-1naybe carpets and rugs don't
/ like 10 be paddle-whacked too hard
So Uncle Wiggily tapped Mrs.
{ Bushytails rug as gently as he could,
knocking the dust out in little puffs
Z And when he was doing that along
came Billy Bushytail. the squirrel boy
on Uncle Wiggily- Please let me
help YOU do the rug beating2"
chatered Billie.
/ why, the ideal What made you
come home from school SO earlyZ''
asked Uncle Wiggily.
"It was an examination. and when I
finished mine the lady mouse teacher
said ] might come home" spoke John
ME. "Oh, I'd like TO help you beat
rug"
Very well. you may" agreed Uncle
Wiggily- There's an old brom han
die over in the woodshed- Get that
and Wei beat. the rug together. ] on
one side and you on the other"
So Billie began his beating. You
see. I told you the little squirrel boy
was not going TO get whipped it was.
only the rug, and really IL needed t..
Uncle Wiggily took hold Of his side
or the rug and Billie took hold Of his
and each one lifted his side out until
the rug. over the line. looked just like
a tent shaped like the letter a, or the
letter Y turned upside down. II you
like that better.
7 know what I'm going TO do when
Johnnie comes marching home" chat
tered Billie.
What" asked Uncle Wiggily.
III get him 70 help me beat the
rugs and you can rest" said Billie.
and wen make a tent OF this rug
after it's clean Wen play in IL until
spread on the floor"
"All right" said Uncle Wiggily.
And then he went: "Whack! Whack. {
Whackl" on his side OF the rug. and
Billie WENT ~Whacki Whacki Whacki"
on his side and they raised such a
dust that neither OF them saw the bad
old Bazumpus come sneaking out %
the bushes, and crawl IN between the Z
rug sides and hide there.
II stay here while and when my I
chance comes III jump out and get
some OF Uncle Wiggily's souser'
thought the Bazumpus as he hid in
the rug tent
Harder and faster beat Billie and
harder and faster beat Uncle Wiggily, I
and finally they thought the rug was
clean enough
They let the sides fall together. and
Uncle WigEilv was thinginE Of going {
70 get a glass OF nice cool carrotade
wen an OF a sudden Billie saw sort :
OF hump, or lump, between the two I
SIDES OF the rug Then Billie saw the
tail OF the bad creature sticking ont ]
ana right away. the squirrel knew
what had happened.
The bad old Baazumpus IS hiding In /
mere 70 get Uncle WiEgily's sousef" |
thought Billie. Quickly taking up his l
oroomstick again. he began beating ]
me rug as hard as he could beat b. I
Hg1t on the lumpy place.
stop- Wait bitt Hold on a |
minute- Why are you beating the rugl
AFTER we have knocked out all theI
GUST; asked Uncle Wiggily. That isl
needless work.
oh, no. it isu'tr' shouted Billie. and
ne beat away harder than ever /
, " mack Whacki Whackl" fell the
blows on the bad Bazumpus between /
me rug until at last the unDleas7nfl
creature could stand 10 no longer. ont 1
from under the hanging rug he rushed 1
eyes '--9
-oh,, how I hate house eisanine"
lowed me bazumpus, and away hel
ny gentleman's souse at an
was that why you gave the rurl
such an extra hard beating billie -
asked the rabbit gentleman
t surely was9' laughed Billie.
he and Billie finished cleaning fbe
rest OF the carpets and all was we'll
ana II the fire shovel doesn't take a
piece OF coal and make a black mart
on the dogs collar SO IL has to 20 10
me laundry 20 have its face washed
III tell you next about Uncle TVfe-ril1,
and Johnnie's string.-Copyrfeh 1920
~ mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.