Show p I tJ 6 ETtIE TOtIS I IZ I 1 I I Y DOW V IO DOES In InY lIn WISE VISE THING TIlING l lD B D S Burgess Blind ilUnd action often orten will alas pure wisdom often pass old Old Mother Nature Dann Meadow read Mouse ous was as very verv elV far indeed from the tho ho Green GreenMeadows where he be ham hau used aU all his life li He didn't know this but ho lie he e was as In a strAnge place pl I he fact tact Is he was In tn the middle of ofa a 11 gleat eat bare para parade e ground he hepp soldiers were dulled The Tho great man-bird man as he called the which had brought him there had landed In the tho very mid mid- middie middle die dle of that great parade parada I arad grounds ground ground I I s Danny looked about him there wasn't a isn't a stick slick or a stone to be seen spen Thereas There was as nothing under which a frightened little Meadow could hide It was as still bright ht da light and Danl Daniy ran back under the tho air air- plan air pian It was WIlS shady th e and he t feel quite so as asI ashe ashe ashe he did out In the light Several I lines started to I inn un across neros that great open place but each tin fear rear dros dro e dro e him back before I he had gone more moro than a few feet foet You see ho he knew that If It an en- en enemy enemy en enemy I emy should see ee him hInt he Ie would have no chance hance at all aU I After fter a while Dan Dann Danns I that ho he was wad very ser ery HIj hungry hungt He had eaten cat n nothing since early that morning for tor he ho had been too frightened to eat Now he felt feit I that t he ho ju just t had to have hava food But M tar far aa as he could see nee there was ot ot e cn a a blade of grass Then Donny Denny remembered the thu feast he I had held had In that man-bird man the tho cast thit t had c caused all nil his present There Thero was as stil still some orne of that food left lert In fact tact sva wasa ns a whole holo sand sandwich loh I II 11 climo I back up In there and andI get some of ot It said 8 Danny to I I simply ha hae e got to toha toha e 1 ha food Perhaps the beet best place for tor me after atter all aU i la Is inside there I I I lie ne poked Isis Ills head nut out to ot get another piece Ju t as aa the lawr a looked Into the machine until dark Then I ma may be bo able ablo to get across this awful great bare space So Ro Danny scrambled d back bark up In- In n aeroplane ogain That sand sand- was lying right n re h-re he had bad last laet t spen s cn It Dann Danny dragged It over close to the door of the tin tiny cupboard in which he 1 had bad ad hidden durIng that strange long ride Then with Ith his hia head just out of the he crack crack made by that slightly open little door he began to feast With Withe e ery ry mouthful he ho felt folt better beUer Nes- Nes Neer Ne Neer er er ci bad baa food tasted so 80 good You see for such a little fellow tellow Dan Dan- Danny Danny Danny ny had hod been without food for tor a alon along along lon long time He lie was so o busy stuffing himself that ho didn't hear heir footsteps ap- ap ap tro ap-tro ro ching It was ns the aviator who ho had guided that machine there lIe HI had h come back to do some gome work on the tho man bIrd Danny had hOld pull pulled ed the tho little piece of ot broad bread crust Insl insIde 10 the cupboard and had eaten It II there He lie poked his hl head out outto outto outto to get another piece just as the aviator looked Into tho the machine They saw each other at the same s intUit Danny darted back bank Into the tiny Well Well WellI I must muot havo had a passenger and didn't know lIt it exclaimed the aviator That mu must t have havo gotten In back I backI thorn where I started on the Iho Green GreenMeadows GreenMeadows I Meadows 1 wonder what he 10 thought of his ls ride I II see If It I Ican Ican Ican can t keep him lIe He reached OVer al d closed the little door of the tin tiny cupboard Danny Meadow Mouse waja wasa was Then Thon Danny Dinny wished he lie hadn't hack back Into that big man bIn But really he h hl had l done the Iso niso thing He didn't know It but he had done the wise thIn thing He was wag sate safe there whereas be h wouldn't have hae been safe sat at it all aU If 11 lie had ad tried to cross that great bare open space Copyright 1922 leU by T W Burgess rho 0 next nen story Danny Finds lit lIe n g a ft Friend 00 00 |