Show WHAT HArPE En D TO ro 1 DOW IE MOUSE lOUSE fly y W W ss fortune I Is 18 I a tickle fickle thing No one knows what it may Inay bring bringOld bringOld brin Old Old Mother Iother Nature In the th world is true truo than that Fortune which some oma people call luck L Is a thIng Just take the cue of Dan ny D Dan Dan- Danny ny n- and ana Nanny Meadow MOils Mousa Fortune Fortune had been good to D Danny nn when Ii he escaped from Black PUI Pussy by going Into Farmer Fanner Browne henyard And then Into henhouse Ha lie bad had found a place where 11 he- he was most and sae sac sae But Dut Nanny Meadow Mcadow Mouse had had no such tuch good tood for for- for fortune tune lune You remember that Nanny had ha 1 escaped from fronz under the th porch of If l Browns Brown's house through a little hole on one side She knew not where here to go co l Bh he didn't doll d go back to o Farmer Fanner Browns Brown big lile b barn rn because of ot Shadow the th W Casel She Sh ran along alone close to the foundation of ot Farmer Drown Browns house for II a short distance then than darted over to a a young orcha-it orcha which was on the tho other side of Farmer lormer Brown Drowns Drown's house from ti 0 Old Orchard There was a n a cru crust ton on th the snow now but Nanny hoped that she he might find an opening Ue big enough for her to get itt do down through somewhere Somehow she didn't feel teel that there was alY aay danger dancer Just then Binl 1 Pussy ru y was wa ch chasing Danny Mouse the Hawk cl dom cl-dom dom leCt left Me Ito Green Meadows Meadow it wa-s wa not yet time for Spooky lh Lbs Lb's Screech Owl to be abroad an ant t Nanny could think of ot no one cis whom she he ill need tear fear But Dut you ou may be sure that as she ran Nanny kept her leI eyes eye wl open She saw a bird fly out flor thu top ot of a tree but this worry her ler This bird was wa only about the fhe h size of Welcome and nd was iLS dressed In black blek gray rl rland and white Ho didn't 1001 look at oil all lie He had a small bill with I a tiny hook look on the end of It It was S quite clear r that he le wu was not a hawk ha k Ho lie didn't look a hawk and ond ho lie didn't fly like t a hawk and h he didn't act like a hawk Nanny had never Dover seen een hin before but be lie looked so harmless J that she didn't fear him She scampered alonG looking for Cur fora Cura or a place where she might get under that snow crust rust Once un under der del that she would feel teel quite safe saCe From the th corner ot or an eye eo sh shi c caught sIght tight of a a shadow and ond In instinctively she dOdged Nanny long Ion l ego ago eo learned leuned that movinG shadows are apt apt to be dangerous Then tt 11 was that she sho discovered ered that this stranger bird was tryInG to ca catch her Oh squeaked Nanny aol anI dOdged around the trunk trunk of a 11 ayoung OU young ng tree N Nanny squeaked Oh a I good 1 many times time before she sho finally escaped from that stranger lIe was very persistent Ha lie to know that Nanny waa U Ps stranger there thero ant had no hiding place Had It not riot been Leen for tor the tho youn young tree trees around which h ah could dodge I fear tear Nanny not have escaped But at last Nanny found a youn fOUD tre tree around which the crum crust of oC snow now was wa not close to the th tree She squeezed down bel between Own n i ass Hr She saw a x bIrd I fly out front the Ule top tOl of o a 4 tree ts- ts C c the she du dug dur in the soft snow snow under under- underneath underneath underneath neath Oh she ho panted anted who is that harmless looking stranger who tried to catch me Who can ean 11 hs h's Inbe be I wonder If it he h really meant me any auy harm He lie didn't look dangerous I wish I knew m moo o about him I shall have hav to wat out to fo him Now Nanny Meadow fe dow Mouse ouse Inc be-Inc be- be beIng being Ing feminine is 18 full of curIosity It wasn't loii long before the she climbed up to peep out for a look at that stranger bird She saw him at once What do you OU think he hera was waa ra doing dolnic lie He was dialing chasing one or of the tho children of ot DUlly Bully the Uie ng lish Ish I Sparrow Tho Ilio Spano Sparrow w flying wildly and dodging as s b beat beathe lt ho he knew how But Dut it was w useless u el si The The stranger struck him and knocked him down Then he pick picked cd U up the he Sparrow and ond flew over overto to 10 a thorn tree Nanny didn't know it but she was wa the Shrike She Sh didn't how narrow au an all escape elca pe she he had Iad had hod for Butcher had bad a x liking for MIco Nico as well ell as s toi COI Sparrows and other small birds Copyright 1328 1026 by 1 T W Bur cess Bur gess gess- The nest n Jt story Adventure Ne XI Ne-el Adventure Ad |