Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-06
Bedtime Stories
For Little Ones
Copyright, 1920, by McClur
Newspaper Syndicate.)
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE
PINS.
(By Howard r. Garis.)

PINS.
81 have something for you to do
today, Uncle Wiggily," said Nurse
Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, as the bunny
gentleman finished his breakfast
of carrot flap jacks in the hollow
stump bungalow one morning.
"Good!" said Mr.. Longears,
twinkling his pink nose until you
would have thought it was going
to turn into a cinnamon lollypop.
What is it to be, Nurse Jane?
Do you want me to shovel snow
off the front walk, or bring in
enough icicles to fry for dinner"'
Neither one" answered the
| muskrat lady housekeeper. "All l
want is to have you bring me
back some pins when you get
through looking for an adventure
today"
"What kind of pins, safety or
haiti" asked the bunny rabbit gem
| tleman.
"Just paper pins" answered
Nurse Jane. II don't mean pins
made of paper-of course not!"
! she said quickly, for she saw that
Uncle Wiggily was going to make
a Joke. II mean sharp pointed
| pins that are stuck in folds of
| paper. And, besides that, l want
| some sunflower seeds, Uncle Wig
gily."
"Sunflower seeds?" cried the
| bunny. twinkling his pink nose
faster than before. Are you 60
ing to grow suns, to make sunshine
on dark days, Nurse Jane?'
"No, | am going to bake a cake
and I'll want hundreds and hun
dreds of sunflower seeds, because
they are SO small" said Miss
Fuzzy. please don't forget now.
Bring me back pins and sunfloW-
er seeds"
"I'll bring. them" promised I'm
Gle Wiggily, and off he hoped
| over the fields and through the
woods, humming to himself little
song like this:
Dear Nurse Jane is going to bake
A lovely brown sunflower cake.
| This is how my song begins,
| l must not forget her pins"
So Uncle Wiggily hoped along
faster than ever, saying over ana
| over to himself:
| Lots of seeds, a paper of pins!
| Lots of seeds, a paper of pins!
, Lots of pins, q paper or seeds
no-that isn't right-lots OF pa
pers, pin of seeds-oh, I've got
to start all Overt" And he did.
Thus talking to himself, so ne
would not forget what he was
after, the bunny rabbit skipped
along looking for an adventure
but he could not seem to find any,
so at last he decided he had bet
! ter get what Nurse Jane wanted.
! Not far away was the six and
seven cent store, and, hopping IN
there Mr.. Longears spoke to the
little mousie girl clerk behind
the counter, saying:
81 want some pins, IL you
please. Not hat or safety but
sharp, stickery pins" .,
"How many?" asked the little
girl mousie.
"Oh, great many--hundreds
and hundreds of them" answered
the bunny, "Nurse Jane wants
| them to put in a cake"
The little girl mousie looked al
Uncle Wiggily in funny way, but
| she said nothing, for she thought
he was trying to play a joke on
her.
"WeH. if he wants plenty of
| pins he'll have to pay for them,
| she said to herself. SO she
1 wrapped up about forty-1even six
teen papers of sharp, stickery pins
and gave them to the bunny. by
! this time Uncle Wiggily was think
i ing of sunflower seeds, so he
really did not notice what was
given him.
He paid the mousie girl, put the
package of the papers of pins in
his pocket, and skipped along TO a
seed store, ;,
II want q few sunflower seeds, y
he said to the Monkey Doodle gen.
tleman behind the counter.
"How many?" asked the Mon
key Doodle gentleman, taking up
a big scroop to dig the seeds from
barrel where he kept them.
"Oh, just a few. Nurse Jane is
going to pin up new dress,
suppose" said the bunny.
SO the Monkey Doodle gentle
man said nothing. though hi
looked at Uncle Wiggily in fun
ny way, thinking the bunny was
trying to play a trick.