Show DANNY HAS A CLOSE CALL By Thornton W Burgess Dur Who Vho always alays does hl hi very J best Alone Is fit tit to meet mee Ufe's lifes test Old Old Mother Nature There is such a thine thing as too safe sate Yes Tes sir air there thre Is such a athing athing thing as s being too safe sato It Is 1 a 1 good thing thin to have hav to watch out for danger dancer at least last once In a 11 while Those who dont don't have to are apt I to forget forest that there Is such a thing I as dan danger er I This is 19 the way w y it was with Danny Meadow Mouse Since be beI hand I and Nanny had hd made their home hom homin lOme in the old scarecrow in Farmer Browns Brown's cornfield they hadn't been benin In danger once Of course courso none of their enemies ever thought to look for them them In such a place s as that old scarecrow So day after day and night after tt r night nit th they y played about and went and canto canle as they At first Dann Danny had kept a sharp watch for pos pos- possible pos possible sible Ible danger daner as u be had bad been obliged to do all his life But as aj the thc da do das 9 went by he thought thou ht of t danger dancer less and less often and finally not at Atall t tall all I 1 Eat Ears E r one morning be he ran r n 0 oser or orto to the Green Meadows which be- be began began boC gan n just beyond the tb fence lence that bounded Farmer Fanner Bron Browns Brown's cornfield Danny had lad gone fono to et got his break break- breakfast fast He H was busily eating catine a 0 a blade of grass when happening to look behind him ho he saw w the grILls grass inov- inov movIng Ing as If some som one on were wro creeping through it very vry softly It was waa just pure good luck that Danny Dunny had looked back when he did Through the grass stems he h saw something black It was Voas Black Pussy PUlIS the tho Cat from Drown Brown Browns Brown's house houin Danny dropped hIs bla piece of gras grass cr and started to run Tun Slick BlaCk Pussy's ears must have caught cau ht the th faint sound of Dannys Danny's footsteps for tor iii- iii in instantly she sprang he he- all but landed on Dannys Danny's short t tall tail 1 Danny squeaked qu aked with fright and my my my Iny how he h did run It didn't seem as aj It If those short legs lc of his could move so ao fast tw Now It Is probable th that thit t if It the grass had bad boon been b on short abort I would have no more stories to write writ about Danny Me Meadow dow But the grass was wis tall and nd Black Pussy couldn't see Danny Dinny She bad to tobe tobe tobe be guided by her eUI ear ar and by movements of the grass as J Danny Da toI I ran through It Several Ume limes Umes sh she all 11 but pounced on en him bins It was wasa a 11 long lone time tim since Inc Danny D had bad been In such danger At first Danny was ws too to frightened ned to think He wu was too frightened to todo todo todo do anything but run But ho bo h knew he be must get ret to a safe sate hiding hiding- place I soon lIOon Then Into bi his head bead popped the memory of that th t old tin can at atthe the foot of a fence fenc post pst on OB thel the edge of f farmer Browns Brown's cornfield If h he could rea r A b sst Mi t he I c I c got to get there Ito Iro got gOI to get there lie he kept saying 0 over and toI I and over VII t to to himself lf II as s lie ran mn I II I bo be safe Ive got lot to get set there ther Ive I've got gotto gotto gotto to get therel there he kept Ing over o crand and over to himself ns as s be ran And It s seemed emed somehow na liS it Just S1 sig Inc s-iy-Inc lug Ing that over and o 0 tr o er ci helped him to run faster He lie did get thero but only jut Ju t in the thc iery ery ry nick of Just as he whisked In the little round hole hol la In I end of that old can nn Black Y a 11 last swift ft spring and actually felt one of oft her H He with fright pain and then ho he h was inside was safe sate for tor the present ent lint But had been ben a s close el call Yes Tes tr Ir had been ben a ier HI r close call hid had bad to run iun run any further Black Dlack certainly would ha hase e caught Copyright 1928 1923 1 2 by T W Bur Bur- Burgess Burgess Bur ress gess The next story Nanny Ninny M I Fears rears tor for Danny I |