Show I rut TUK T m fly THORNTON W S Nature you'll find gruff And In her lier S MH-S a little rough rough Old Old Mother West Wind Danny Meadow Mouse was way down In II a a tall lall hollow stub tub ot of a tree treo on the tho edge of oC a It certain m meadow allow Hilly 1 the tho Sparrow v had dropped him there Hilly had Intended to have Ian Ian- Dan ny ny for his dinner Its pretty comfortable down here thought Danny when he felt himself all over and found there thero was nothing serious the matter I 1 dont don't know how ow Im I'm going to get out of here but butI butI I guess Ill I'll get out somehow If I have to I suppose I can climb way up there thero to the tho top Then I should have Ilave to climb down on the outside and I dont don't like to do that During the day the Sparrow Spar row Hawk would bo be watching for tor me to do just that thinG I have havo an on Idea that at night there thore Is usually an owl hangIng around here Well Im I'm thankful Im I'm here and ancl I wont won't worry about getting out until I Iha ha have ve to get out No Now this la Is what wise men call philosophy and Danny was provIng proving proving ing to be a philosopher lie HII was making the tho best beEt of at what he had and not worrying about what was IlS to come Most of ot the things that folks worry about never happen A good philosopher er doesn't Vorry worry Just to show you how v good a 11 philosopher Dan Dan- Danny Danny ny fly was he curled up and went to sleep Now late in the afternoon Old Mother West Yest est Wind came camo hurry hurry- hurryIng hurrying ing inS up some great clouds They were full of at rain and thunder and lightning and wind v Yes sir they were ere just as fu full II of at those thosa things as they could be They were so full of 01 those things that by the time tile they got right over that meadow they just couldn't hold them any longer loner So the lightning flashed and the tho thunder roared the rain fell and the wind blew Danny awoke at once lie looked up He lie no longer l cau see any light at the top It was vms wasas v asas as dark durl a as If It It were wera night Dan Dan- Danny Danny ny fly was scared Danny wasn't the tho only one ono who was was scared In InI I that storm You see It was II a avery avery very dreadful s storm orm That tree treo It V V S j i S Of course the first tiling thing lie he dd was to run ran out began to rock It began to creak and bf began an to groan You see lice the tIlo wind was doing dreadful things to trees It was as pulling some up by the roots and It was breaking of oft off the tops tors and great geat branches from front others Back Dacle and d forth back and anforth forth rocked that old stub There was a u snapping and a cracking Every Ivery time there was wasa wasa a snap or crack Dannys Danny's heart hoart jumped right Into his mouth or ors s seemed to Vb When en the lightning flashed he squealed right out Never had ho he known knows such a Storm Finally there th re reas was as a a worse cracking and snapping than ever everand and then with a a crash over vent the tree When It struck that hollow stub brok broke Into several pieces Dinny Dnny Was waa almost smothered In h the dust from the rotted wood Inside But Dut he wasn't L seriously hurt lie was simply simpi shaken up Of Of course tho very ver first thing he he- was did did was to run out Then ho promptly ran rut In again You see ho felt sure that he would drown It if he stayed out for the rain was coming down In sheets It was coming down so s fast that the ground couldn't soak It It up and the water stood In great gret puddles So Danny re- re remained In that piece of at the fall fail fallen failen fallen en stub and shivered and shook and waited alted and hoped Copyright by T W Bur gess The next stor story Etory Danny Has lIas II a Neighbor |