Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-04-30
A,doRt hurt ne! III be soodi'

anything as foolish as that! I an
gong 10 paint something else, and
want as many ColorS as l car
get"
Il have a lot of paint left over
when Nurse Jane and l last deco.
rated our hollow stump bungalow. !"
SAID the bunny gentleman. Come
down and get the cans. There is
little color in each one"
SO Susie got red, green, blue,
yellow. pink, purple, black and
white paint, and, putting them in
her brothers express wagon, which
she had brought over for the pur-
pose, Susie wheeled them to her
house.
AREN'T you going to tell me
what you are going to paint?
asked Uncle Wiggily, teasing like,
as he nibbled the end off q carrot.
III let you see it when have
finished" promised Susie. Until
then 1t is n secret" and with this
Uncle Wiggily had to be content.
But he was so busy for the next
few days that he rather forgot
about Susie and her paints, and it
was not until toward the end of
the week that an adventure hap
pened which made Mr.. I.ongears
glad he had given the colors to
the little bunny girl.
Nurse Jane had sent Uncle Wig
gily to the store to get a Jug OF
molasses, for she was going to
bake a strawberry longcake, and
the bunny was almost back at the
hollow stump bungalow with the
pound of sugar and the Goldfish
cakes when, all of a sudden, uot
from behind a big rock sprang the
Blue Nosed Baboon.
"Oh no and oh hal" howled tho
bad chap, as he caught Uncle Wig
gily by the ears. you can't get
away from me now, You haven't
any sticky postage stamps to make
me so stuck up l can't nibble your
ears. l have you now!"
Yes, it does seem So" sadly
said Uncle Wiggily. He was Just
wondering if he couldn't pull his
tall silk hat down over his ears
so the Bah couldn't nibble them
when, all of a sudden, the bad
chap looked up in the air over
head and cried:
What's that?"
Uncle Wiggily glanced I'D and
saw what at chrst he thought was
big grinning face of tome mon
ster, oolored red. green blue and
yellow.
MY gracious sakes alive and
some peanut pancakesw howled
the Baboon. Such q looking
sight! Is he after you, too?"
Il guess maybe he's after you"
said the bunny boldly. as he saw
the queer red. green, blue and
yellow face coming nearer through
their air. And just then the face,
which did not seem to fast to
anybody, gave dive and appear
ed to come straight at the Bah.
"Oh, don't hurt me! I'll be good!
l won't nibble Uncle Wiggily's
ears!" cried the blue-nosCd chap,
and, letting go Of the bunny away
he ran.
Down came the grinning face,
with its red mouth. yellow cheeks,
green nose, pink eyes ana blue
hair, and it crashed into the bush |
20 NAOSS bt5Auc Ilt bunny. UnCIe
Wiggily was too surprised to run,
and a moment later the voice Of |
Susie Jitletail cried:
"Oh, my nice new painted kite |
that | made! Is it smashed, Uncle |
Wiggily?" Then the bunny saw
that the face was painted with |
many colors on a paper kite. which |
Susie had made, almost as good |
as a boy. She had used the red,
green, yellow, blue and other tints
to make a grinning monster on
the kite. aN' y.
What happened?" asked Uncle
Wiggily.
Il was flying my new kite and
the string broke" Susie said. lit
came down. Did it scare your"
"A little. but it scared the Bah |
worse, I'm glad to sayi" chuckled |
Uncle Wiggily. Then, as the kite
was not much hurt, he helped |
Susie fly it again. This was the
little rabbit girls secret, and it !
helped the bunny a whole lot.
So If the Jack-m he-Box doesn't
Jump out and go roller skating !,
with the fire shovel on the front
porch, III tell you next about
Uncle Wiggily and Lulu's marbles,
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Cafphar Ruel fha DAD c., ,n.., !