Show I BURGESS BEDTIME STORIES D DANNY ILLS HAS AX AN ADVENTURE By W 14 BURGESS The careless always have havo to pay They find there Is la no other way Danny Danny 1 Meadow Mouse It is Js a a fact tact If It the careless do donot donot not pay In one wa way they pay In an- an another another an another other Danny Meadow Mcadow Mouse knows what he Is talking about He ought to for he has had bad experience experience ence enough Danny Banny Is one of ot those I people who cannot afford to bl be careless even for a minute Some big people can afford to be careless care care- careless careless less but little people like Danny never ne can Danny had turned his back on the ocean He h hid I i left lert the sAnd s dunes and started up along the edge of the marsh manh Danny know v where the Green Meadows s lay but like most little people of the Green Forest and the Green GreenMeadows GreenMeadows Meadows Danny had bad something In- In inside In side Ide him that turned his nose In Inthe Inthe Inthe the right direction People have havea a word for tor that something Inside Perhaps I 1 should say they have ha two words These are homing Instinct They mean that Insl le leIs Is something which knows In which direction homo home lies So it was that Danny without knowing where the Green Meadows were pointed his funny little nose inthe In Inho the he ho right direction when he started out Now Danny had bad to cat eat so he couldn't spend l all his time tray tray- trav ling Perhaps you remember that there was a creek which creek which really was a branch of ot the big river that thaI c ime mo flowing lowing down from way UI up by the the Green Meadows Dann headed le l toward this creek Some Sonic Somehow how ho he 10 felt safer lafer over o there thero and there was more chance to get some some- something something something thing to eat cat There were always plenty of things to bo be found over on that salt marsh that could coull be eaten So Danny began to follow up along the bank of the creek The Tho first day nothing happened Danny found plent plenty to cat eat cat and hen ho he grew tired he could curl up lor a nap Of course those thoe short legs of Danys Dany's Dan ys y's got tired quite easily so he ho didn't travel very tar far that first day He lie didn't travel far tar enough to feel at all easy casy In his mind about Reddy Fox so 80 when he ho took a nap he ha didn't sleep as well ell as he might have At night he kept on his way lie Ito found It a lot harder traveling than he thought It would be You sec see he had no nice little paths cut through the grass When Then the tide tido was out he found that he could run alon along the edge of the mud flats but when the tide was In he had to get back on high land It was as just after daylight dalIght the second day that Danny had his first real adventure He had by this time become BO so used to things thing hat he had grown a little bit care care- careless careless careless less In other words he didn't look lookas lookas as sharply as he lie should to sr-c sr just where he w was waa as going So It was I that ho ran out from under some overhanging grass on the edge of the mudflat to discover Black Black- Black cown crown n the tho Night r Heron standing motionless watching for some somo min minnows notes to come como within reach Dan Dan- DanIy Dan ly Iy almost ran over one ono of mack Black duck crowns crowns crown's toes before he saw Black Black- crown Black crown at all You should have seen Been Dann Danny turn Certainly he never turned more quickly In his life He lie turned and darted under the overhanging I grass and as he ho did so 80 Black Blaek- crown Black crown saw him from the tho corner of at athis his eye Like a flash lash DIck crown Diack turned and drove that long bill of hi his into the grass He lie just missed Danny If It Danny hadn't happened to turn just as crown Black that l o a n He lie turned end and darted under the theOld Old housing hanging grass bill wouldn't have missed him Danny Danny squealed with fright and darted under the grass Black crown Black crown followed driving that long bill of his into the grass every time he saw It move Why he didn't catch Dann Danny Danny doesn't know to this day At last Danny found an old hole of a Muskrat in the bank Danny darted In How Itow lie he did hope that there was waa nobody at home He went only far enough to get out of at sight of Clack crown Black the Night 1 Heron Then he sat down to get his breath My Iy exclaimed Dann Danny taht was a close call Cut But It served mo me right for not using my eyes better Copyright 1926 1326 by T W Burgess Bur The next story Dannys Danns Long Swim |