Show a ag g j BETInE TORIES G I s DINNY n AND NANNY NASiY DISCOVER ER 4 RELATIVE 11 VE Uy fly W V Burgess Go whore where lou OU will the whole soc id 1 In You can II t escape your kith Ith and anel kinOld kinOld Kin Old Old Mother Nature atun The new home under a stump On the edgo edge of the garden really did seem soom like a sery cry e y safe sare r lac and ond Nanny Meadow Houie began to feel better right away Nanny ii h a great home lover and nas f to get this new home com corn completed completed at once So presently they y started out to look for something to make mako their bed bId of ot There was plenty of good They Thoy found all the dry dry My grass they want want- wanted ed ad It wasn't as soft Boft it im the TaRS grass th they y had hed used u ed to but it did very well Then Than Danny discovered ered some white soft stuff in a afield field l lI I joined th that t garden It a sac cotton though of course courso Dan Dan- Danny Dan Danny ny py didn't know this But he did I know now that this would make the 10 kind of ot Led bed and lie he carried d d as much of ot it back to the tho new now home as he could Nan 1 Nan Nan- Nanas Nanny ny as BM wee jut just ju t as oa tickled with it as Danny had been bean and she aha went With ith him to get more It was W lS quite a journey for tor two such euch small folks but they felt that It was v worth soc orth It It So 80 at last he be new home borne ass as com corn complied plied and olId Danny and Nanny felt quite settled With the new home finished there was waa w s no work to be done and nothing In to do but to hunt for tor food and dod to get acquainted with their new pew surroundings As AsIs ABIs Is 18 their way woy they cut little ate paths pathe for themselves In many dl- dl and soon they felt quite liS as much at h home me as It if they had lived JIved in the Sunny South For a 0 while the they thought they bad 1 no neighbors Then one moon moon- moonlight moonlight moonlight light night they ventured over to the field where they had found the cotton Tha Tho fl field was wag aJl Grown grownUp grownUp up to weeds Present Presently Danny covered covered a little path through these theM It was ery like the tho little paths that be he and Nanny cut In the grass only It was somewhat big big- bigger bigger ger ble-ger ger Somebody lives hIes around here Danny to Nann Nanny Who do you suppose ose It can be bo Don t asit asic roe me m replied Nanny anny I think wed we'd better botter get getaway away from J lIe Ho must t be tc a 1 cousin or of ours ar Danny excitedly here hore Whoever matte maile this pI path p th may not like liko to ho hae ha e us u u It But Danny Danoy wouldn't let listen en His MIs curiosity BM as too much for tor him Ue He In Insisted silted on going on Nanny was afraid to bo be left behind so soshe she ehe followed ed Pretty soon Boon the path branched Danny stopped Ho was tl tring to ing to decIde whether to keep on or to try this branch blanch Before Defore he could mako make up his hia mind they heard ap- ap approaching ap approaching footsteps Danny and andi i Nanny anny crawled into the grass at atthe the tho elde side of or the little path and andI waIted Presently down the litti I branch path came running a stranger At the point where 1 here th the two path paths joined he stopped for tor a 0 moment so they had a good look hook ot at him hint He lie was a little bit bigger than Danny and his coat was coar coarse I and brownish His MIs head Voa Has not quite so 50 blunt 03 II Dannys Danny's but he ho had the same Kind lind of thick bod body and hIs hia legs lege were short just as us were ere Ber those of or Danny and Nanny In Intact fact he ho looked very much like a abig abig abiff big Meadow Mouse I He lie must mutt be a II cousin of o ours oura Dann Danny excitedly as the stranger disappeared Yes es sir ir he ho must mut bo a 8 member of ot the Mea Idea Meadow dow Mouse blouse family L Lets t I follow folio him and get t acquainted Copyright 1921 ISH by T Burgess Burgees I ITne i The me next s story Nanny onny Idea roa dow Mouse Is Wise |