Albuquerque morning journal., 1921-05-07

gentleman. did a bad Wolf or
tFoX scare you?"
I No, Uncle Wiggily." Baby
Bunty answered. But in school to-
day, the lady mouse teacher TOOK
Iaway my stretchy ball"
Your what" cried the bunny
gentleman.
MY stretchy ball. repated Baby
Bunty. 81 had my stretchy ball out
in school, and | was stretching it
and making it come back to me ana
teacher took it away
well, Baby Bunty," spoke the
rabbit gentleman kindly, "of course,
just having started as you have, in
the kindergarten class, you can't be
expected to know as much as the
other children. But l must tell
you that school is a place for learn
ing your lessons, and not for play
ing with stretchy rubber balls, as
you call them"
Il know it." Baby Bunty Sob
bed. "I won't do it again. But, oh,
| just loved my stretchy ball, I'm
Gle Wiggily."
What in the world is a stretchy
ball asked the bunny gentleman,
looking at Baby Bunty. After he
had given her a few lessons on
making letters from toothpicks, as
! told you last night, the little rab-
bit girl had gone to school.
"A stretchy bail, said Baby
Bunty, "is rubber one, and it's
fastened on the end of long, THU
piece of rubber. You throw the
ball away, the long rubber stretches
away out, the ball bounces, then
the long rubber unstretches and the
ball comes back to you"
"Oh, so that's what a stretchy
ball is, eh?' asked Uncle Wiggily.
"Yes," answered Baby Bunty
"And I toohmy stretchy ball out In
the hollow stump school, and tine
lady mouse teacher saw me and she
made me give her my nice ball
boo hoo!'
Baby Bunty was crying again!
What do you think of that? But
then she was a very little rabbit |
girl, you know.
"Never mind, my dear said I'm
Gle Wiggily kindly, as he wiped her
salty tears away on his red, white |
and blue striped rheumatic crutch. !
TT was wrong, of course, for you
to play with your stretehy ball in
school. But as long as you didn |
know it, and as you are never 60
ing to do it again-why-com with
me to the three and four cent store
and I'll buy you another ball"
"Oh, fine!" cried Baby Bunty,
her paws
Along she hoped with Uncle
Wiggily to the toy store, and soon
she had another "stretchy ball" as
she called it. In the hole of the
rubber ball was fastened a long,
thin elastic. One end of this was
tied to Baby Bunty's wrist. And
when she tossed away her stretchy
ball, the rubber "unstretching" as
the little rabbit girl called it, pulled |
the ball back to her so she caught
it.
Now can have some funn
laughed Baby Bunty.
She was bouncing her stretchy
ball along the woodland path when. |
all of a sudden, there was a rust |
ling in the bushes, and out popped |
the Fuzzy Fox.
"Wuff! Wuff! howled the bad |
Fox, as he saw Uncle Wiggily and
Baby Bunty. This is my lucky |
day!'
And our unlucky one!" sadly |
said Mr.. Longears. What are you
going to do, good Mr. Fox?"
I'm not good Mr.. Fox! I'm bad, |
and I'm going to nibble your ears!" |
was the answer.
oh, but first, let's have a game |
of ball! Tag! You're it," suddenly |
cried Baby Bunty. She threw the I
ball at the Fox. 1t hit him
on the end of his soft and tender |
nose. But when he put up his
paw to catch the ball, it bounced
away, back to Baby Bunty.
whats the idea ?" asked the
Fox, exasperated like.
Tag again!" answered Baby
Bunty, who was the liveliest little I
rabbit girl you ever saw. Tag!
You're it!'
Again she threw the stretchy
ball at the Fox. 1t hit him on the
ear, but when he tried to grab the
pall it bounced back to Baby
Bunty.
Here! Give me that ball!"
hoWled the bad chap. Again the
RABBIT girl threw it, hitting the Fox
on the head. And when he tried,
with both paws, to get the ball. it
quickly stretched back to Baby
Bunty.
"Oh, this is a trick! This is
magic fairy ball! 1t will give me
bad luck! I'd better run away!
nowled the Fox, and away he ran.
Baby Bunty's stretchy ball had
saved her and Mr.. Longears.
so everything came out all right,
md if the rice pudding doesn't hop
'ut of the oven and hide down eel
ar when mince pie wants to go to
he moving pictures, I'll tell you
leXt about Uncle Wiggily and the
iandelions.
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