Show DY D DAN Y ni IC uio DO v MOUI IOU r THU S O S By toll Thornton s The thin thing that's hard liard for iou OU may be iU C 1 the re erso for tor me Danny Danny Meadow Mcadow Mouse lOuse It is just that way all through life lite I That which brings brines trouble to one on often brings brines Joy to another It al- al always al always ways ha has ham been so and It al wm vl be bo so BO The deep snow of ot winter Inter Ob- Ob os when ellen hen It is crusted over oer Ith Ice males makes life lite vory ry ery hard bard indeed Cor Cormany Or many of ot the little people of ot the Green lorest and the Green Meal Mead Meadows 0 s l hey cannot get food enough and sometimes they stan starve stare e They must hunt and hunt and hunt to get getan an thing at all to cat eat They must traul maId about a great deal to do and In traveling they aro are always ays ec e ex exposed posed to danger from enemies o 0 most of ot them dread the snow and ice But it is not so BO with Danny an and Nanny Meadow Mcadow Mouse No o sir It Is 1 not so with ith them When the snow comes they ate ale happy and when theto thelo Is Js a crust 0 over oer er It the they are hap hap- happier hap happier pier still You see at al no season ot of the cal eai arc are they quito quite so sQ safe it as has as just so at the time ol ot the Ice storm hen Vi Welcome elcome Robin Hobin as aas asdlen en dl out of time tile cedar swamp s b hunger an and ami found the good 3 Browni Coy Boy had put out for his little friend friends Panny Meado Mouse had liked that storm You sec ceo Danny and Nanny anny hal mado a nug cozy little homo home ot of soft grass Tass In n II hollow hollow- fallen tence po post t 01 on th edge of the Green GreenMeadows s It was aas as very ery warm arm an and Corn com In there They had stored comI up UI a supply of ot see seeds ls an and dried bar ber- berries barrica ber berries ries rica They had made little tunnels the snow snoa close to the ground in all directions and they I could go RO and como come as IS they pleased please without being seen SE-en by any one There aas wa as tender bark to be bo had om li-om the tho bushes growing gro along the I fene tenOr It reilly wis w no trouble t atall t tall tall all to get gel enough to oat eat The Tile only I thing that they had to fear tear was that while the snow was soft Heddy leddy or Granny 1 I ox or Old Man Coyote might try to dig them out But as aa soon qoon lS es that Icy crust Ci formed OHr oer o er the top ot of the snow that wall wa at an lId So the they liked the Ole snow and the liked the Icy crust and they thoy acme el 0 tery el happy and comfortable while so 50 many others were suffering rach Eab carried carrle their tunnels II day they a lit little tie tle further or made new ones Some Sonic Sometimes Sometimes times Danny would cUm climb b the stout stalle sta of ot a dead weed aced eed and make maka a little loun hole through the crust close Iose to lo it Then when ahen hen he be felt O ike iko it lie he could climb up and nd scamper about out m the Surface Nanny anny avs alv worried ahn hen he lie did dd this Sh She Sho was afraid that he would be bo careless and that some connie time when he popped his lils head They Had Made Little Tunnels 1 the Sno Close to the 1 in W 11 Directions out he would find an enemy v lOUt to seize seizo I Danny use used to laugh at her Ier lie He knew that there thero nasa wasn t a da day passe passed I that Red Reddy y or Mrs Irs lo 10 Fox or old Granny Grann 1 lo Fox 0 or Old Man Coyote didn't C every Cery ery ono of ot his little round doot- doot ways ways Many r-Jany times limes ho he had heard ono one ot of them slitting at ono one of ot his little door as avs It was ans gr great at fun to pe peel l out ot of one ono o of ot theo G little holes Ioles ao and watch Redd Reddi Io 10 watching beside another little hole itolo It was IlS great fun to scamper across from one hole to another He Ia knew that th these se ene- ene enemies ene enemies mies a were e Cl hungry and grov Ing hungrier e every er day But Dut hating ha plent plenty himself elt lie Ie was cilia enjO lag Ing life an and hoped that that Icy crust last all winter Inter So o 0 did Nanny ann It didn't matter to them how rough Brother North V ind md Ind might howl and blow It din didn t matter to them theta hoW hove Jack Jacl Frost rost might pinch flinch an and freeze ze Down in their little tunnels neither could reach them So thc they were happy and contented l which I 1 ot of course the tho way everybody e hould be Cop 1923 by l T W Burgess The t nc stor etor stori i Danny rinds a 0 |