Show Little Stories for Bed Time By Thon W. W Burgua DANNY MEADOW MOUSE IS WORRIED r Tanny u m Meadow MoUse 1 sat Hat on Ills his doorstep doorstep door door- I step with liis hili chin chIi in his hands hand and It I I wa was as aser er very ory plain t to see see that hat Danny Dinny had something on his hl mind Ho Ito had only onh a i nod for Jimmy Jimm Skunk and ond even cn Pct Peter r Rabbit could set get 12 no lin mo than thana a it grumpy good mornIng r It wa wa mt nt that he lie had hud bern helln caught n napping the day before by Reddy Fox and nearly made an an end of No it wasn't wa wasa nl t that bann Danny had learned Ills I s le-s ron ion and Redd Reddy would never nc catch him again IL 11 wa wasn't nt that ho he wa was all alone with no ono one to pla play with Danny was glad Iad that he was alone The fact is Danny D Meadow Mouse was wa worried woi- woi ned ried Now worry Is one of the worst things s sIn In tho the world an and It didn't as if I there was an anything thing that thal Dann Danny Meadow leMow Mouse need worlY orry about But you ou know It is the easiest thine in the tile world to find flad something to worry o over and maKo Inako our elf uncomfortable about And wh when n nou you jou ou make mak uncomfortable you ou Olt arc are almost sure surf to make everyone e around you ou equally qually uncomfortable table It wa was wac f flO ao o with Danny Dann Meadow Mouse Striped Chipmunk Chipmunk Chip Chip- munk had hai twice called him Cro Cross CrossPatch CrossPatch 5 and anti Johnny Chuck Patch that morn morning InS InS' who ho had fought Reddy Fox Fo for him tic the day dRY before had called him Grumpy And what hat d do you OU think wa was a tho thin matter with Danny lanny Meadow Mouse 1 Why ho tic was worrying because his tail tall was vas t tY t. t Y Y s. s sir fill that i IB IR all th that t tIed a-tIed Danli Mou Mouse louse e that thal bright blight morning You Tou iou know Home some p people let then looks make Inake them miserable They Thc worry be- be CRUSe thy they are homely or 01 freckled freckle or ur short or tall tail or thin or stout nil of which i is' is Isery Is 18 ery very foolish And nd Danny Dann Meadow Mcado Mouse fouse wa was just foolish In worrying wording be because be be- cause his hits tall tail wn was short It wa was short It certainly was 3 all nil of that Danny Dann had nc ei i how short until he lie chanced to meet his cOUsin cousin cou you sin who lives hives In thin tho Green Forest Foreit He lie was very verj dres od but bul the tho most mOll Imposing thing about him was his long slim beautiful tall tail pann Dann had hiatt at once rifles once b become c t conscious of hl his own stubby little tall tail and h tic he had hardly had pride enough Uh to hold his Ills head heRd up as be became he- he came an honest Meadow lel Mouse nd And ever ver since he lie had been thinking and thinking and wondering how his lila came to ha haVe hae e such short tails Then 1 hen he grew envious lom and bc began an to wish and wish mid and wish that ho lie have a n long Ions tall like hl his cou cousin ln foot HP lie was waH so 80 busy wishing that thil he had n it long tit tall tail II that thal ho lie quite forgot to take ke care of th the tall tail ho lie did lel have hJ ha c and nd he Pie pretty preUS n nearly arl lost II H 1 and his life with It IU d Whitetail the thc Marsh l Hawk hind had spied Dann Danny sitting theio thel moping on his lila step and ha had come conic sailing o over the lie tops top of the meadow grasses grases rn so o softly that h iu he had all an but hut caught aught Danny Dann If It hadn hadn't ha nt t been for on one of the Meny Little Breezes Danny would have b been n caught And nd all because he lie was pinions lous Jl's t ts t's a b bad rl bad habit and Danny Meadow l Mouse has learned bett better r now how |