| Show I c i S sw I 2 I m m FUN rUN IN IX A SCARECROW B Thornton W V Burgess Of fun tun this life has daily dally need This truth I pray that iou OU heed Old Old Mother Nature A Is I a place to have fun At least it Is for tor little litti people 1 like Danny and Nanny Meadow Mouse Just ask ak Danny He H can cantell cantell I Itell tell ou If It he cc ill that ne neer ne'er or er in his life had he ho had so much fun as ashe ashe ashe he and Nanny had In the old scare scare- scarecrow crow caro-crow crow in Farmer Farmr Browns Bro cornfield Both Danny and Nanny like to playa play a little Most of the people of the Green Gren Forest and Green Meadow do like to play once otice once In awhile Dannys Danny's and Nanny's favorite game was hide and seek There were svere pockets In the th old coat of that scarecrow There were pock pock- pockets pock eta ets In the old Those pock pock- pocket pockets et ets made mad wonderful hiding places Nanny would start out with Deafly Danny chasing her Round Hound Roi andrO and and up and down that scarecrow they would race Nanny would disappear disappear pear Then Danny would hunt for her Sooner or later he h would find tee ter In tn one ane on of those pockets Then Danny Denny would hide and Nann Nanny would try to find him They would chase chace each other In InAnd inand Inand And out aut of the th sleeves of the old eld coat and up and down the trouser legs It was very exciting ans an they had no end of fun tun You see se they felt that they could play there without stopping topping e eiery esery cry moment or orso orso so to look and listen for tor danger and that was WI wa an experience they had seldom kno known n before betor In their uses I Early one morning the they started IL a game lame of hide and seek seele and Danny was as as it You know that means menns he was the one ono also nho ho was trying to find the other Ho Ic had been just juet a n little slow in starting starLIng After Nann NaomI and he hadn t seen een In which direction she went sent Ho He didn't doubt In the tho east least that she was hiding in tn one ot of the many mallY pockets of that old scarecrow So Soho I he started out to look In every pocket She Sho wasn't in any of ot the pockets of the old She Sho In any of af the th outside pockets of the theold theold theold old coat Then Danny remembered that the old coat had an Inside pocket Thata That where she sh Is said Dan Dan- DanI Danny Dan n I ny to himself Ill steal teal up un very There Thero sat sot Nanny on an arm of that old looking lIS as Innocent as ns you rou please plc AC softly and give five her a scare scar So Danny climbed very softly taking care car not to rustle a single singie straw of the Inside of the sC ire crow crow until he h ia as where he could jump quite suddenly on the outside of that pocket Then he h jumped He landed leaded against that pocket with witha a little thump Ho He to feel Nanny's plump little bodY the cloth But that pocket proved to be per per- perfectly perfectly flat There Ther was aa IlS no one In It anny didn't need to look In It to know that That That's funn said Dany to himself Im sure aure Ive I've looked In other cry e e cry other pocket y Yes s sir Im I'm sure aure of It Just to make sure double double sure Danny Dannys s around again looking In each pocket He didn't find Nanny He ran all 1111 over that scarecrow but no Nanny At last he gave eav It up upI I can t find you Nanny he squeaked Where here are ar you 1 Right Richt here said a II squeaky little voice right richt above his hia head Danny lanny looked up There sat Nanny on an nn arm of that old scarecrow looking as Innocent as a lou ou Please Danny vi anted t to know where she had been hiding But But all elJ that r-anny r anny would say ay was waa that she had hada hada a new hiding hiding- place and d he have to find It Where do you think It was It we waa WI in the old hat of that scarecrow But It took Danny three days to find It out Copyright 1923 1 23 by T W Burgess The Tir next story tory Danny Has a Close Call |
