South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-11-27

not his nose or a clown or the
circus-gracious, should hope not!
MY! Those are certainly scrump-
tious cookies!" laughed the bunny
as he picked up even the last crumbs.
Gould I have another Nurse Jane?"
mo- 1 must save them for
Thanksgiving" answered the musk
rat lady. Now don't tease me any
more
So Uncle Wiggily didn't though he
wanted another cookie very much.
And when the last of the Thanks
giving cookies were baked, Nurse
Jane put them away in the pantry
and said:
Il am going over TO see Aunt Let
tie, the goat lady. She has a horn
ache and I am taking her a little
picked pepper sauce TO make her
feel better. VIII you take care OF
the bungalow while 1 am gone,
Uncle Wiggily?"
ITO be sure 1 will"' promised the
bunny gentleman. and I'll see that
the cookies are safe, too. How many
kinds did you bake, Nurse Jane?"
''Oh, I made molasSe5 cookies,
sugar cookies, caraway seed cookies
and hickory nut cookies" answered
the muskrat lady.
"Umi I'm! What lovely Thanks
giving we'u have!" mUrmured UncIe
Wiggily. Nurse Jane hoped over
the back fence to go see Aunt Lettie,
the goat lady who had a horn ache,
AID Uncle Wiggily, left to himself in
the hollow stump bungalow, began
thinking But all he could think
OF was Thanksgiving cookies.
81 wonder if Nurse Jane really
made as many kinds as she said Pc
thought the bunny. 1T would do
no harm to take a look IL do it."
Into the pantry the bunny gentlez
man hoped. There he smeIled the
same delicious odor that had greet
ed his pink, twinkling nose when he
first came home. Uncle Wiggily
opened one jar and peeped in.
Sugar cOokies!" he whispered.
AT least I think they're the sugar
cookies. But l had better take one
out to make sure" So he took out
a cookie. but after looking at is he
wasn't sure whether it was a sugar
cookie or u caraway seed kind.
Il had better taste to make sure, -
said the bunny. SO he nibbled the
cookie. finding It was a sugar kind.
Then. as he looked at the place he
had nibbled on the cookie, and at
the hole he had made. Uncle Wiggily
said:
Wei, it's no use to put back a
partly eaten cookie. I may as well
finish It." And he did, eating It all
up. Well" said the bunny after a
while, Il wonder If there are any
caraway seed cookies? ! had better
look in another jar to make sure"
So Uncle Wisgily opened another
jar. \ delicious smell came forth.
lie reached in his paw and pulled
out a cookie.
Hum. I can't be sure whether
this is q caraway seed cookie or one
made with hickory nuts" said Uncle
Wiggily. L had better taste"
SO he did. Il was a caraway seed
I
chunk he had bitten out of the
cookie. Uncle Wilgglly thought ii
would be Of no use TO put it back in
the jar.
I'll eat it all up. said Uncle Wig
gily And he did. Then the bunny
said: Il wonder If Nurse Jane really
baked any molasses cookies? l had
I = - la
sure" So he looked in a third jar
and saw more cookies. He tasted
one TO make certain il was molasses,
and il was. and he ate It all up.
| Then he laughed and said: Well,
there's one jar left. That must hold
the hickory nut cookies. Will look
10 make sure"
He tried another cookie and ate il
all up, and then, having had four
Uncle Wiggily was hungry no more
, He sat down in an easy chair and
! fell asleep. F Suddenly he was awak-
ened by hearing Uurse Jane cry:
ooh. Uncle Wigg.ly! A Bear must
have been here, for a To- OF my new
! Thanksgiving cookies have beer
/ eaten! l see crumbs in the pantry,
| Oh, the Bear! the Bear.''
No" said Uncle Wlggily, sort Of
foolish like; cit wasn't a Bear. Nurse
Jane ate the cookies. I wanted Il
make sure there were enough FOL
Thanksgiving. And there are. In
! glad 70 say"
/ Wei, OF course. it's all right,
I spoke Nurse Jane with a smile Blu
/ when I came back from Aunt Let
ties and found you asleep and saw
the cookie crumbs IN the pantry.
1 felt sure a Bear had been here"
But none had. am glad 20 say
and r the goldfish doesn't try e
climb tree 70 pick of all the apple
/ pies. I'll tell you next about Uncl,
! Wiggiiy and the chocolate cake.