Show A VISIT TO TIm TIlE IIAN RInD MAN MAN IRD Uy Thornton W Burgess Durgess Good common sense sen wo we must con con- confess confess con fess Comparatively few fow possess posses i Old Old Mother I Nature When the th bird greatman-bird great creat man bird or air air- airplane airplane plan air plane had hd fallen with Danny and Nanny anny Meadow Mouse It had hod land land- landed landed landed ed as you know on the tb edge edgo dea of a garden of a man called a settler which means that be h was a mall ma who had started In to mako make II a ahome home for tor himself In a part port of the th country where few other men mn lived So It was os na that the th aviator who had been badly shaken up but not really hurt found that he lie vas wasa a long long lone way stay from any place where here repairIng he h could get et hOlp help in repair repair- Ing Ing that airplane There Ther was as noth noth- nothIng noth- noth log inc to do but lea lease e It there until ho he could get ret help So It happened that It was many da dar dais s that the broken man-bird man remained where here It had fallen before tho Fe- Fe re returned turned Danny and Nanny Meadow Mouse hadn't gone cono back to that t grett man-bird man once oneo one They hd hd been too busy with their new nw home and In learning how to take care carof I of e In this new land to think of anything else el e But Rut a night or two after their lt to the home of the Wood Rat Eat they decided to run over to see It if that great treat man-bird man was still there thero ther It was as So was Trader the Wood Rat flat lie He was wa climbing about all rr allo 0 oser er It with Ith the th greatest of curl curl- curl Dinny D and Nanny anny climbed up Into It found that the th door of the theattle th little attle cupboard In which the they had used l I Id I'd vt was as still open opel a crack Inside was ns their nest just justas as they had left It It e them something of a feeling I I I almost i Ih h we ne cr had I left here said Nanny I Well Irell now thet th hit iou ou have hav come comeback back why don dont t you stay sale s Trader who had overheard what i Nanny said I I I don t know of a safer sater place I for little litti folks like you lie he h con con- con continued tinned No 10 on can get ou In Inhere Inhere Inhere here Most lost of our enemies will willbe willbe be afraid to come ery iery ery near this thing I don t know Inow of one that would dare dar climb up Into It Youie Youe got a comfortable home heme horn all built Inside WM was a their U nest Just as they tIley hail bad left It here her and It Is a pity not to use It Were Vere I In your place I certainly would live light here hero The Th more mor Danny and Nanny though this o er the tho more mor they liked the tb Idea Now that that bird bird roan had a broken wing It couldn't fly Probably It would stay ty there ther In a way It was WIlS home They would feel safer Hater there than thon I anywhere else Traders Trader's advice seemed good rood Th The more mor they thought It over the th better It seemed Shall we e do It If caid Danny Nanny hesitated I would like to she he confused confessed at last laet Then Then that's that settled declared Danny It It Is I the th most moat sensible thing we can do We 0 W can always leave here her and go ro back to that old stump tump It If we w have hav to Trader nodded his hi approval That Is ls good rood common sense ense said he heSo So It was wae wa decided that Danny an and l Nanny would once one more mor live IIvo In the th great man-bird man And when Trader finally left loft them thy they 0 nero ero I happier than they had been since the great creat man-bird man fell tell 1924 1 24 by T W Du The Th next story Danny and Nanny Have Hav Two Homes Home |