Show o i-o I lann and Cnn ann Bt Become om Homesick n B Thornton M it From distance viewed Ie cd the oid old homo home see seems ins The Ideal of ot our fondest dreams Dnn Dinni Meadow Mouse Of Ot course courso Danny Meadow Mouse told t anny of ot having hating seen ben i Hum Hum- Hummer Hummer mer loot the Hummingbird and ho boss Hummer said that man maD of at Iho birds were ere on their ay v blok 01 th or wore ero getting red to go Because they had kno known n no real weather do down n there In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Sunny South Danny and anny anny had almost forgotten that there wore were such luch things as seasons of ot the thu add er But statement that Sweet Mistress Spring was a nl- nl al already ready on nit her hor wa North set oct thom to thinking Danny noticed what ho lie t no- no notI no deed no-deed tI od b before foro and this n was vas that thue were wore now nosy many mote moie than ho had seen een at an oni time elro the they had come down don do n to the Sunny South He Ia noticed too that such ouch of th the tha little people of ot the tho as na he hp mw RW were busy buoy household l affairs All that h he saw ow he told Nanny for they talked our oser 0 everything er thing together bo So It that grad gradually they thoy became homesIck Each ach day they grew more home home- homesick homesick 1 sick iek They Thoy remembered how al at always ways the thea had looked 00 for tor the corn com com PS 1 ir ot t f sweet 11 Spring and the tho return ot of o all their tethered friends They Thoy remembered alth what joy the tho hod had discovered the tho first ras each vear oar ear 1 bored hered with what nhat 1 hilt a 0 III the tho had heard the voice of ot the tho first Spring Peeper coining from the tho Smiling Pool The Tho more they thoy thought about things the tho more they grew and the moro more homesick they grew the tho more moro they thoy thought shout things I want ant to go home Iome lobbed anny I I want ant to go back to the dear dear dellI Groen Meadows s I to o see c mv my friends ls up there thore You kno know we ste 0 never were er so safe te i we ae have hate been boon In tn this great grent said Dnn Danns tr trying Ing to her We Wo dont don't have to WOrl worry about Rodd Pox Fox or Old Man 1 n Coyote or Booty th the 0 Owl OssI I or Rod Red tail Rod tall the tho or Black sy Pu-sy or nI I anybody else oloe hero here In 10 this great bird greatman-bird man bird i I I dont don't e care rt sniffled Nanny I I I would like to see soo Heddy Fox I I would so It would seem good just t to hive him try to catch me meI meI I d like to hear hoar Old tan Man CO Colote ote sniffling for tor me this very sery ery minute Oh Danny do 10 you ou suppose well we'll welle ser er er eon SM the tho ho Green Groen Meadows again a I I don Ion t know knoss kno replied Dann Weve We've had a wonderful Intel w ss and nd w evo 0 seen n some ome wonderful things But well I-I-well I I well I wish I siero oro back home homo Do to nit 1111 SIO su SI O all our private lIttle oth paths hn hate e gron up to glass again I i ie e I II I fp f p 6 t I I I ant to go home sobbed Nanny 11 Vt u ht a l t silly duration qaid Id Nanny There Thero hasp L t been bou nn an glass gISH gro grossing Ing up thel a It II Ill 1 I as be been n up there thore Danny looked h Thit s I sto so 60 said Raid h he We ro has ho hon n t h hid 1 any win tel That In is wo iso 0 hl hisen t lied had hadan nn an cold o 01 ot snow or Ice for so 80 long that I hll have base 0 tOl gotten there thero could be such a 11 thing lou ou kno knoss Ninny I wouldn't 1 like to live where there It I Is all tho time No sir lr I wouldn't You may mRY have hise to retorted man It It this great man bird doesn t I go BO back well we'll el haye maye aro to spend the tho rest of ot our lise lives n do down here herc hoo do Ido g hoo I want to go o home homo I II CoP 1921 by T W Burgess Burge The Tho next ton Danny Dnny and I Nanny heroine Become Greatly 00 Excited |