The Washington herald., 1920-11-12

mONulAiu 6tu trees. MAKE utauI-
ful decorations. and Nurse Jane
loved them.
So. as she and Uncle wIEgiiy
walked along, they looked snxiousiy
here and there for q sight Of these
red berries. and at last. up on the
side OF a hill. Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy saw
some clusters.
oh. here they are. Uncle wig
gfly," she called.
~Right-ow answered the bunny
gentleman and soon he was hopping
up the side Of the hill TO the tree
where the red berries grew.
"I'lI come with you" offered Nurse
Jane. Il want 70 help gather them
NO. No. Stay back" shouted
Uncle wigsily. his pink nose twink
ling as fast as anything. Don't
come up here. Janie!"
why not?" she asked. Are there
snakesg"
Gracious me. sakes alive and
some peanut pancakes. No snskesi"
laughed Uncle WIggtly. The snakes.
long ago. have gone to sleep for the
winter. But. even II there were any
here they would not hurt us. The
reason I don't want you 10 come IS
because this place is full Of stick
ticks" =
stick ticks. What are they"
asked Nurse Jane. as she began 20
climb the side OF the hill among the
dried weeds. TO get some mountain
ash red berries.
Stick ticks are those things
sticking all over your dress. just as
they are sticking to my coat. vest.
trousers and even 60 my tall, siik
hat" answered Uncle wiggily with
laugh. 7 thought I'D save you
} from them but you are covered and
! so am L."
! having pushed her way through the
bushes. All over her dress were
; little three-cornered things that
, looked like seeds. But when she
tried to pick them on she fould that
they stuck fast. Each seed. for that
is what they were. had many tiny
hooks on IL. SO that when anything
fuzzy or fur-iike touched II the seed
would cling TO 81.
= They are stick ticks" said Uncle
Wiggily. These ticks stick TO ev-
erything they touch. and the wool
: of Dottie and Willie Flufftau. the
I lamb children. 10 they had happened
l. to come here. would have been COW
cred with the stick ticks"
But what are they good for
i asked Nurse Jane. as she saw hun
e dreds OF the ticks all over her
dress
e Il don't know that they are good
e for enything." answered Uncle
i Wiggily. The stick ticks are the
seeds of a weed. and when the dried
II seeds catch on anything they cling
3 fast Thus they are carried away,
= and when they are picked on. OF
~ fall OF. the seeds drop to the
] .aa IL
IS tick weeds grow up"
That isn't very nice" said Nurs,
10 Jane. Mercy We are covered
lie with stick ticks! How shall We get
10 them off?"
n We'll. It will take us a Ions
he while to pick them" said Unci,
n. Wiggily. But as long a. we arr
la here we cannot be much wors,
h stuck up. so we might as wei
gather the red berries"
s. Then he and Nurse Jane gathered
se red mountain ash berries. beauti
Is fully colored leaves and the rec
~ plumes of sumach, which are like
- the things some soldiers wear IL
itheir caps.
The bunny and muskrst lady hs,
lg their paws full Of branches and
&c leaves. and they were just goinl
D. down the hill 20 a clear place wher,
he they could pick on the stick tick
II, when. all OF a sudden, NLrse Ian
%. icried:
he ''Oh. here comes the Fuzzy Fox"
he Surely enough. he sprsng out fron
under a bush to try to nip Uncl
On Wiggily. But the fox accidental
ed iveped into a big cluster of site
Is, ticks and they tangled themselve
d. in his fur. millions Of the stick tick
h. ,clinging to him and so clutterin
lis him up that the fox couldn't ru
et fast at all.
We Come on, Now is our chance,
10 cried Uncle wiggily.
I'M : So while the Fuzzy Fox was a
od tangled in the stick tick bushei
the bunny and Nurse Jane ran dow
NJ the hill with their red berries. An
- the Fox couldn't catch them b.
'o- cause he had so many stickers in h
~ fur.
"a 1t would have taken Uncle Wis
- gily and Nurse Jane two weeks
pick all the stick ticks of then
- selves, but. very luckily. slon
came Charlie and Arabeila. q
" chicken children. With their beak
-ns - just made for such work. the. chicl
me ems soon picked all OF the ticks G
M the bunny and Miss Fury Wuzy, WI
then went home to decorate the no
Iot low stump bungalow. And the Fl
itn had no supper. that night.
'eo But IL the ball of yarn doesr
lea get all mixed up with the egg beat
when they are sliding down q
ironing board with the cake Of soa
lie, Ill tell YOU next about Uncle Wi