Show Nan iy Makes es a n l of ot nor UN Own D Uv Di tt lt BURGESS I IA I IA A nome home home is never found made I II Anti therein lies a womans woman's trade I Nanny Nanny Meadow Mouse I IThe The old rusty can hidden In the grass at the toot foot ot of a 0 fence post poston poston on on th the edge of Joal mer Browns Bro cornfield was tas a regular castle to Danny and Nanny Meadow Mouse Danny took some soft dray grass Into it and they slept In it But Dut still Nanny Kanny didn't go eo to work ork tori to build ii regular nest the kind of ot a d nest In which thich to 10 raise a family Danny Dannyl l knew new by this that she hadn t et tully fully mild made up her mind to stay thele e It suited Danny perfectly lIe He Heas was stas sure they never neter could rind find finda ft 1 better place But Nanny kept making malting little trips hel heie hele e and there She was still looking round around It 11 was as on one of these little trips that sh made her great find Never Ne In the world III it ill 3 ou guess what it was waR It tas as a 3 scarecrow Yes sir it was wasa wasa a 0 It stood oni only a little 11 ort oft In Farmer ranner Browns Bro corn corn- cornfield cornfield cornfield field It had been Leen put there early In the spring tpring by Farmer Browns Brown Boy Hoy to try to keep Blacky the Crow And nd his friends away assay front from the soung oung cornOt corn Of Ot course Nanny didn't know hat shat It was tas When she sho first found It it frightened her I But it dIdn't tiko her long to find out that It was as harmless Thele was stas an old pall pail of oC II and abo above abote e this an anold anold anold old coat buttoned tightly around is bundle of ot straw On top of It an old hat When WJ Nanny had Inde hiede up her mind that it was quite harmless she ventured to climb up upa n 11 leg of ot those old trousers Then she explored P every try part of ot that And as she e her e eyes ea grew brighter and brighter I Nanny ran down and tnt to hunt to Danny She found him close beside the old tin can Come BO so commanded Nanny Come 1 I te e found a place for our new home For the life of ot him Danny couldn't Imagine anything an thing better than that old tin can tor for a home but he didn't say so Wisely he heh h held ld his tongue and meekly tol- tol fol followed lowed Nanny He Ho had learned by experience that In matters mattera of home homen n Nanny would have hate her herway herway herway way She led him hint straight over b lea es cs all sli It was st-as a 0 scarecrow to the old When hen saw law It he stopped abrupt That thIng looked too much like e a R But Nanny didn't stop She he he straight over to It and up one Ie leg Danny almost lost his breath wh he saw her do it Come on Of Ot course it wouldn't do to Nanny think he was wa-s afraid to an thing which she did go so scrambled up after atter her Nanny took him all over oter that scarecrow She showed him pockets In the old coat showed him hint the tho pockets pocket In the trousers She showed him they could made a 0 nest In the middie middie middle die dle of ot that bundle of straw I midI which that old ld coat was stuffed Her little e es fairly snapped Its Its It's better th than n that old ld ne of Redwing s B she decal red is Iq the thc last place in all the World that any one would to find us Ever since we In that nest in the alder aider bush hate ha hated to think ot of o going and living on the ground round No we wont ont have hate to This will A wonderful home Did you see am thing like it t Danny kue 1 o No No o o replied Danny rather rather rather er slowly You s see e it was ork to give gise up that tin Un can cart h had found Copyright 1923 by T W Burgess J Ilse he next story Nanny Fincha Find Finch la a Use for tor the Tin CanS Can'S Can |