| Show 1 WAS TUE WORLD ORLD COMING TO TOAN TOAN T TAN AN END BY ny THORMON THORNTON W BURGESS A 8 sweeter phrase no tongue ma may know Than these theo few tow words I told you yo so Nancy Nancy Meadow Madow Mouse Danny and nd Nanny Meadow Mouse CrO ero prisoners In an old tin can at atthe S at the Ule U e foot of ot L a a fence ten co post on the edge erge or of Farmer Bro Browns Brown's ns n's cornfield ThEl They knew that just outside Black Diack Pussy the Cal nas as watching and waIting for one ot of o them to come out They knew that Black Pussy Pu sy knew new that thero were t two tao 0 of them In there and that knowing kno this she would hS hae ju just t double the patience It meant that she site vv sas as s likely to re- re remain remain re remain main there most of ot the day Never Ne mind saId sad Danny Th There re Is 1 l a comfortable bed In inhere Inhere here ande and vf e can stay here all day dav just as well as not Stock Black B ck PUSS's patience will gh c out some tim time The The trouble Is ls said Nanny e v e non on wont t know Inow when It does give giveout giveout out Now Nos ion OU see sec Danny how much better that pl e where we w c ha our OUI home Is than this thing ouid ha have hao e beenS been'S been Danny thought of ot how disappointed pointed he had uld been because Nanny Nann had chosen to make their new v home bomo hom homIn In the old scarecrow Instead of ot In old can You were ere right as usual my dear said h hO That Cat at will vill probably come down hele C cry ery da day after thIs 1 there I hero here being belne nothing nothing- else to do doll inny Danny inny and anny anny each curled up ur uro It o for or a nap HOT long lone they had bad been beer asleep they had no Idea when they ere awakened by the sound of y heay footsteps 1 hey didn t know w at first chat 11 hat the th sound was and before they were awake awak enough to fully understand there ther came a tre- tre tremendous tre tremendous noise and the old tin can rolled oer 01 0 er and 0 oer o er r Danny and Nanny thought the th end of ot the tho world had come Yes sir they thought the end of ot the th orld had come All the frights they thoy th y ever had bad e experienced pe- pe put together couldn't have been worse than their fright tricht now They ere noro thrown 0 o er er and over and from one end of that old can canto canto canto to the tir other and back again a ain Then the tho old oM can stopped mo rne scrambled to their th lr feet teet and out of I I that little opening as ai fast as their legs s could take them thom They The had forgotten all about Black Pussy Well Veil well welt well exclaimed a olce a oke as the th two gray cray little forms disappeared In itt tho the cornfield H HI I I I had known you were In thore there t I have hav kicked that old can So you yOli knew those mice were In there No 1 o sir I wouldn't I 1 a ay aie e kicked that old can I am afraid I frightened trl 00 ou almost to death It Is too bad It as T v as Farmer Brona Bro ns n's Boy lIe had bad come alonG alone on the edge edo of ot the tho cornfield and had seen that old can lying at the foot toot of or one of the th fence fenc posts Boy fashioned he h had Ick kicked d It and sent It flying It sva that kick hick had made mado the ter- ter terrIble terrible ter terrible noise for tor you see eee tb that t cnn can as made of ot tin tm and was P hollo Of course to Danny Da and Nanny Nonny In- In inSide In Inside side Ide the tho had hail been terrible It a B os 58 S just after he ha bad had kicked that thal can that Farmer Browns Bro Boy had noticed Black Pus So So ou knew those thOM Mice lere ere In there thero said hf hp That's why we heron seen of ot you up lit tt the th house all day Well YolI I guess gues ou ou ont get Bet those thos Slice Mice this time His Hie guess cues was quito quite right rig Danny Dann and bachIn Nanny were already safely hack back In their home In the middle of ot the theold old scarecrow And to this da dathe da they the ha ent the tho th least t aut Idoa Idea what hat hat hap hap- pined hap when wh n they thought th the orld I lied had corn come to an end SOP rIght l 1022 2 by T W Burges Burgesi Th The next n story Crow Cro the th Scarecrow |
