El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-13
Bedtime Stories For The Little Ones
UNCLE WIGGILY AND TIE BAD SNOOE
nm By HOWARD Il. CARS.

IT WAS Monday morning. and wash
day and Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy
the nice muskrat lady house
keeper for Uncle Wiggily Longears.
was getting ready to hang out the
clothes But, ali OF sudden. Miss
Fuzzy Wuzzy looked in the clothes
basket and she held up her paws
and cried;
-Oh dear met
What's the matterz' asked Uncle
Wiggily, who was getting his tall
silk hat al polished ready 70 go hop
ping out TO look for an adventure.
Did you fal in the soap suds, Nurse
Janez"
"Oh. no. thank you" answered the
muszrat lady. But ] haven't a single
clothes pin left TO fasten my sheets
and pillow cases on the line Not a
single onel Oh deari What shan ]
do2"
Don't tell me thatr' cried Uncle
Wiggily, so fustered like that he put
a daub OF blacklng on his pink.
twinkling nose, instead OF his hat.
and that made him sneeze. Did the
bad PIP or Skeeziczs come and take
all your clothes pins. Nurse Janeg'
he asked. after he had given his red.
white and blue striped rheumatism
crutch a peppermint candy Iollypop.
NO. neither the bad PIP nor the
worse Skee has been around this
morning" said Nurse Jane. 1T is
really my own fault that I have no
clothes pins. I let Sammie and Susie
Littletail take some. 10 play house
with. and then Johnnie and Billie
Bushytail, the squirrels scampered
past and they wanted some That
was Saturday, and they promised 20
bring them back this morning But
they haven't"
"Hai I know what the trouble IS. %
said Ulcle Wiggily- school began
this morning. after the long vacation.
time 10 bring back your clothes
pins But III hop 70 the store and
get you some new ones"
-Oh. that is very kind OF you" said
Nurse Jane. But I don't want TO
bother you 7 suppose you ought 10
De off looking for an adventure
Never mind, spoke Uncle Wig
gily kindly I may have an adveu-
turs on my way TO the store OF bach"
And he did very funny one-so
I'll tell you about it. On and on over
the fields and through the woods
hoped the bunny rabbit gentleman.
and It did not take him long to buy
the clothes pins for Nurse Jane
"Iu let the rabbit and squirrel
children keep the old ones 10 play
with" said Uncle Wiggily. as he
tucked the new pins under his silk
hat and started 20 hop back home
again.
me rabbit gentleman had not
hoped very far, and he was Just
wondering u he would have an ad-
venture, when. all OF a sudden, there
was a rustling in the bushes and out
popped a funny creature with long
nose and big eyes and very large
mouth
"Oh. hoi" cried this bad chap. Il
smell souse- I smell rabbit ear souss
and I'm going 20 have somer' and he
looked at Uncle Wiggily with big
eyes
"Who are you7" asked the bunny
rabbit gentleman
I'm the bad snoopy" was the an
sWer. I'm always shopping around,
looking for souss and such like. and
now I smell your souse and Pm go
ing TO take some for the PipsiseWah
and Skeezicks. who are friends OF
mine"
well. they're no friends Of miner'
cried Uncle Wiggily, "and I'm not So
ing to give you any souse off my
ears"
Then III take itr' cried the bad
Snoopy u can smell souse as plainly
as plainly as anything with my big
nose, and souse I must have."
He reached out 10 get some Of