Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-04-26
Bedtime Stories
For Little Ones
Copyright, 1924, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.
UNCLE wIGGnY's CARROTS
BY Howard Is. CARTS

what are you going to do to-
day. Uncle Wiggily?" asked Nurse
Jane, as she saw the bunny rab-
bit gentleman putting on his old
clothes one morning and starting
toward the garden behind the
hollow stump bungalow.
II am going to plant some carr
rots," answered Mr.. Longears,
with a low and polite bow of his
pink twinkling nose.
"Plant carrots!" exclaimed
Nurse Jane, why, we didn't
plant any little carrot plants grow
ing in the warm bungalow as we
did with the lettuce. How arc
you going to set out carrots when
you haven't any,"
Carrots aren't like lettuce"
answered Uncle Wiggily. The
reason we start lettuce in the
house is because it is more ten
der than carrots. l can scatter
some carrot seed in the bed of
earth which | have made ready
for it in my garden and soon car
rots will begin to grow"
"Then you had better do it."
remarked Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy. For
the sooner you plant the carrot
seed the more quickly we shall
have fresh yellow carrots to eat"
Uncle Wiggily said this was
very true. and, taking some Of the
tiny. fine brown seeds Of the car
rots out into the garden he hop
ped. The lettuce, over which
Jackie and Peetie Bow Wow had
spread the newspapers to keep
Jack Frost's cold fingers away,
was growing wonderfully. And
near the lettuce Uncle Wiggily
had raked smooth a bed of earth
in which he was going to SOW or
plant the carrot seed.
The rabbit gentleman was drop
ping the fine seed in little rows
made in the warm, brown earth,
when, all Of a sudden, voice
asked:
What are you-a-ker- choo.-
doing, Uncle-a-ker-choo!- Wig-
gily?"
"Ha! Ha" laughed the bunny,
who are you and why are you
ever had spoken had sneezed.
"Im Sammie Lttletail, the rab-
Bit" answered the voice. II saw
you in your garden and / hoped
over to see what you were plant
ing. 1t seems to be-to be-a-
kerr snitZiol"
mo. it is carrot seed that am
planting" spoke Uncle Wiggily,
land think some Of the fine car
rot seed, being blown up your
nose by the wind, is making you
sneezc."
"Maybe-ker-foo--it Isl" adj
mitted Sammie.
"I'm sure of IT." laughed Mr.,
Longears. "IIere, stand behind
me out of the wind. and you won't
sneeze any more"
So Sammie did this and stop
ped sneezing. For the wind no
longer blew the loose, fine seeds
up his nose. Only a few of the
carrot seeds were thus blown
away; the others fell into the
earth and Uncle Wiggily covered
them up with his paws. Sammlc
helped, and when the carrots
| SiSN as ldI6c DIS ICb cream cones
Uncle Wiggily said he would give
Sammie some.
All of a sudden though, Just as
Uncle Wiggily was starting 10
plant the last row of carrots
something happened.
The bunny gentleman had a
great many carrot seeds left in
the bag, and he was thinking he
might take some over to Uncle
Butter, the goat gentleman, to
plant in his garden. when, all OF
a sudden, there was a sort OF
grunt, groan and growl behind
the fence, and out jumped the
bad Bob Cat.
what are you doing?" asked
the Bob Cat of Uncle Wiggiy.
Making garden" was the ans.
wer. Don't you want to helJ
me by scratching up tho GROUND
with your sharp claws? Vol
would make a very good rake.
"Pooh! AS IL I'd turn mysel
into a rake" snarled the Bol
Cat. "If ! do any scratching !