Show BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN By THORNTON V. W. V BURGESS AN UNEXPECTED DANGER DANNY MEADOW MOUSE swimming swimming swim swim- ming across the Smiling Pool to escape from Heddy Fox was worried enough as be he thought of how bow helpless be he would be should Billy Mink or Snapper snapper Snapper Snap Snap- per the big Snapping Turtle discover him before he be reached the other bank bonk But Danny would b have be e been still more worried had he known of a certain Big Dig Pickerel which you OU know Is a kind of offish offish offish fish who was muting his home bome In the Smiling Pool 1001 Now the Big DIg Pickerel lived very ery largely on the minnows and other little lit tle tie fish of ot the tie Smiling Pool buthe was 1 f L X Just as Danny Scrambled Out On the Bank Those Thole Great Jaws Jaw Closed With Witha a Wicked Snap always read ready for tor anything else that night might be good to eat He De had bad been some distance away from where Danny dIved lived Into the water but he had heard the splash Danny DaDDy made It was different dif dlf ferent from the splashes made by the young joung frogs frog and the Big Pickerel knew the difference He De would have been very tery ery glad to get one of the young frogs In fact he could have told what had bad become of a good many young frogs which had disappeared ver very But Dut he had paid no attention to the splashes of ot the young frogs when they had dived into the water at atthe atthe atthe the warning cf of the Blackbird You ion see he be knew all about frogs and aDd i be knew that they ther had bad dived right down to the bottom and hidden In the mud But Dut this other splash Interested him and nd he began to move along In the direction direction di dl of it Now I 1 he had bad hurried in the Drat place this story might have bad haiJ il a aery very ery different ending But Dut the Big Pickerel had had a good breakfast d and he was wal only mildly interested So he swam rather slowly Danny DanDY Meadow Mouse was almost across across the Smiling Pool before the DI Big Pickerel saw him When the Big DIg Pickerel did see him he quite for forgot ot that he had bad had bada hada a good breakfast It was seldom that he had the chance to dine on a fat tat meadow mouse moose and he could think of nothing In the world that would taste better If he had bad moved slowly before now he shot forward like an arrow Grandfather Grand Grane father Frog saw him and tried to warn Danny but Danny was already swimming swimming swimming swim swim- ming as fast as he could and all the warnings In the world couldn't have made malle him swim any faster The Big DIg Pickerels Pickerel's great Jaws each of ot which had ever er and ever so many sharp teeth were actually opening to seize Danny Just as Dannys Danny's feet teet touched bottom Just as Danny scrambled out on ou the bank those great Jaws closed with a wicked snap almost on the end of DanDYS DanDY'S Danny's Dannys Dannys Danny's Dan Dan- nys ny's funny short tall tail There was a great splash for tor the Big DIg Pickerel had rushed rushell so that he had almost almost almost al al- most stranded himself In the shallow water For a minute Grandfather Frog couldn't see what had happened Then he be saw the Big DIg Pickerel dart back bock Into deep water and with a sigh of relief saw Danny Meadow Mouse pop Into one of the holes In the bank of the Smiling Pool 1001 C Co T. T W. W DurCI |