| Show k- k Till TIlE SEP R Dr W BURGESS selfishness appear lit In those we love lo and hold most dear I Nannie Nannie Meadow Mouse Danny and arid Nanny anny Meadow Mouse SIous were crouching motionless side Bide by side under the back baek porch ot of Farm Farm- Farmer er Browns Brown's house Just outside sat Black Pussy the Cat She was l In under the porch through the t he hole that had bad been left for her herto hero to t o goin coin and out You see Black Dlack Pussy spent a good deal of time under that bask back b k porch She re- re regarded regarded re regarded It as belonging to her Dan Dan- Danny Danny ny fly and Nannie Meadow Mcadow Mouse hadn't known this or never In the world would they have run under there here t Now they were so fright fright- frightened c ened that they wouldn't even have breathed It If th they y could have bave helped t A All II they could see sec wasa was wasa wasa a pair ot of greenish ees eyes staring In t that hole It was terrible Of at course Danny and Nanny thought hought t that Black Dlack Pussy saw sa t them hem but Black Dlack Pussy didn't see them hem t No sir Black Dlack Pussy PUSS see them She just happened to t crouch there trying to make UP her mind whether or not to go so un- un under Under un under der the porch To Danny and Nan Nan- Nanny Nanny Nanny ny It seemed an endless length of time before Black Pussy moved Ot Of course they themselves didn't move At last those greenish eyes eye I began to come nearer Black Pus Pus- Pussy sy 51 was coming In under the NoW it wasn't w nt until she was well Inside that Black Dlack Pussy even sus- sus that anyone else elsa was there It was her nose that told fold old her Black Pussy paused and md sniffed I I smell Mouse muttered Black Pussy and her eyes cyca began to glow I I smell amell more than Mouse I smell ce 1 Sho She began to steal forward soft sott softly softly ly Iy a step at a time and how her he eyes ees did glow As yet she hadn't seen Danny and Nanny she ha had only them But Danny and Nanny knew would that it IC she he kept on she soon would see sec them They The kept their eyes fixed on those greenish eye of ot Black Dlack Presently they saw a change In hr them and they saw Black to spring They knew then that they were discovered As Black Dlack Pussy sprang Danny darted one way and Nanny darted darted another way It was WILl this that saved them You see gee Black Pussy hesitated She didn't know which to go after acter first By Dy the time she 1 i I 7 F II i-II I I U I fl i III l t ws w's C kiC ki I 1 smell mouse muttered Black Dlack ami her eyes ees began to glow low had decided Danny and Nanny were outside Danny had run straight out the hole by which they had en- en entered entered Nanny anny had discovered a l little small hole holc just big enough for tor her to squeeze through and she had gone out that Danny had bad ha come out at the end ot of o the porch Nanny anny had Isad come out at the thc side of othe the porch So It was that that neither could could see the other and neither knew what had become ot of the oth- oth other oth er There was not time to look for tor fo each other Ot Of course Black Pussy Puss hadn't been able to Coli follow follow- ow Nanny because that hole was so tiny s so soshe soshe she had gone one after acter Danny Danny Dann naturally had no time to think ot of anything but his own safety lIe II headed beaded right straight for tor Farm Farm- Farmer Farmer er Browns Brown's henyard henard Now ow the legs o of at Danny Meadow Mouse are short but bet they can move very last fast for a I short abort distance They moved now Never Nevel had bad they moved f taster faster But Dut fast tast as aa they they- moved I fear they wouldn't have taken Dan Danny ny to safety had it not been that Dowser Bowser the Hound just lust happened to get in mack Clack Pussy's way This stopped lopped her bel for tor a moment Or two and Danny reached the henyard IllIn allin Ot Of course he had bad no trouble at Ill all a In slipping through the wire net net net- ting netting But Black Pussy couldn't do darted that Ot Of course not Danny dart dart- ed across the henyard and popped rIght In at the little door left open ope tor for the tho hens to go In and out Once more Danny Meadow Mouse had been lucky But he ho and Nanny anny were separated Copyright 1926 1326 by T W Bur Bur- Burgess Bur Burgess gess gesa Tho The nex next story Danny Meadow Mouse Is Well VeIl Fixed t |
