Show o l e JOHNNIE MOUSE IS CARRIED AWAY Johnnie Mouse louse had decided to run runaway runaway runaway away but ut ho had not Intended to be e carried off oft In a basket What Johnnie had thought of or was to run out of the pantry when Puss was as not around and out of oC the kitchen door But before beCore he had a chance to carr carry carryout carryout out his plan some one had come como Into tho the pantry and he had to run and hide He lie hid In a basket under a paper and the tho next thins thing he knew he felt he-felt feit the I basket being being- carried out and arld then some things put pul In n right on top of oC him nn and off It was Vas carried again So instead d of running awa away he was c carried aWa away nn and when he again had hada a chance to look out he h found h he was down In ht the tho meadow where the they were cie er e making hav T He lie was In tho the lunch basket and Johnnie knew that tho the best thing for him to do W was s to eat what he wanted at once and then sk And so he did but Instead of finding a nice dr dry place to live lve as he expected in some big pantry he could find nothing but hay an and grass and as fast tast as Johnnie thought he was nicely settled set sot settled Oed for or a a. naw some one would come with a long fork and pick up the ha hay Of ot course he lie had to run and so 50 all nil allday allday day he ran from one hay stack atack to another another another an an- other until by hy nl night ht time Johnnie Mouse was PO so tired he was rea ready y to togo togo go 0 to sleep leep on the ground This is just jURt what he did right under under under un un- der a tree close up to a bl big stone stono cor covered coy cov ered cred r d with moss How ilow lon long he slept dept he did not know I II I but he was very ery rudely awakened by feeling something sharp hold him tightly and poor Johnnie Mouse was suro sure that aft after r all Puss had caught him He opened one eye a little tittle way and took a look at his captor It was not Puss Puss at all aU but a dreadful creature with a big bill and oyes eyes very much like Puss And again Johnnie when ho hI would like to have run away was being carried carried car car- r- r ried up UI nn and up and when nhen he again opened his eyes he was In a n. tree So still and limp ho was tras that Mr Owl Owl for for It was he that ha had Mouse l In his grasp thought grasp thought he was vaa quite dead so he put hi hl In his house an and ol off he flew to get something more for his breakfast t for Johnnie was wag a avery very cr small and Mr Ir Owl had a abig abig big lIlg appetite After a a. while Johnnie opened both bothof bothof of or his eyes It was all dark lark and still so he crept carefully around until he found the tho door and stepped out The moon was shining fa faintly I through the tho trees and JohnnIe Mouse dl did not see anyone to stop him this time lime from running away awny so down tho the tree he hOe scampered nn and ran somewhere he he did not cat care where All night he ho ran and what was his I surprise in tho the morning to find tind him hm- I self right by the tho steps of or the kitchen I I door where ho he hall had stopped slopped to lo rest When cook came to tho the door to let I Puss PUBS out she left It open and Johnnie Mouse lost no time In slippinG clipping In and while Cook chased him with a broom she did not got him jand and Into his hole In the pantry he tumbled Just as his mother was eating breakfast Why h 1 Johnnie Mouse l sho she exclaimed ex ex- exclaimed cx claimed i we thought Puss had you Where have havo you ou been Johnnie Mouse was ashamed to to tell 11 her he tried to run awa away so ho he told tola her hor how holo ho he was carried off oCt and how he escaped from Mr l Owls Owl's house buthe but ho he was cured of wishing to run 1 awa arvaY from and never again did he wander wandel the pantry where he was born and ana when he married ho he built another the wall for hI his house in pantry tam family II So If IC Puss PUBS has hag not caught ht them I expect Johnnie Mouse and his little JHUe mice arc are still sUIl living ln there and he very very the story of or a likely will tell teJI them little mouse who started to run awa a away but Instead ho he was carried away an anti ami almost came camo to a 11 sad end Copyright 1919 1911 by the McClure Mc-Clure Newspaper News paper Syndicate te New Y York ork City I |