| Show t DANNY IS tn Dy By W s you OU cant can't maka tp up your mind Do Vo nothing It Is best you'll find nanny Vanny Danny Meadow Mouse If It ever anyone any one In all the Great World Word was disappointed that one oneas isas as Danny Meadow Mouse When he peeped mound around the thc bend lend of ot the creek and discovered no one rne but the tho Sandpipers he didn't know Inow what to tUnk He lie hOod had been absolutely absolutely absolutely sure suro that ho would rind find there a titan man stakes But Dut thero was vo 0 o stake driver there Still h lie could hear those being driven Whack Whack hack came amo the Iho sound Bound It seemed now to come como from around the next bend benJ In ln tho thu creek Danny sighed This was woos a II big bend belld Danny Y didn't know whether to keep on I the way ho he was gem solas oln along the mud at tho foot toot of ot tho lie bank or whether to climb up find 1 cut across Ho Ito finally decided to keep Jeep on the way Tiny ho lie wa was waa goIng coin It may be longer around this way but It certainly will be easier ensler goIng mid WId Danny Vanny to himself elt So once onee more snore Danny started on lIe didn't go so quite bo fast now because you know he ho had travel travel- traveled traveled traveled ed quito quite a distance for such a little fellow tellow His lila curiosity was WD I just as great however Ho Ito had bad hadnet net to see nee that stake driver badI I and ho meant to see sac him So with frequent to rest rest Danny kept kepton kepton kepton on As As I 1 already have saId alJ It was wasa wasa a big bend In I the he creek It was such sueh a big bend that It changed Dannys Danny's position completely In la re regard e gard sard to tho the point from from which that stake driving was wOoS coming ho reached tho the very ery farthest point pointon pointon pointon on that bend the sound came camo from fromin fromin In a deep deep- cove covo on tho the other side and this was almost behind him Suddenly Danny noticed that the noise wn waSn't nt quite the santo same as It had been boen It didn't sound so much much like like the driving of a 0 stake Danny ran on and turned the tho bend Still ho heard beard the found Bound but it WOos ivas less and less like that of ot a 1 stake I being driven en It reminded Danny lof of something else He lie sat at down downto to think It over Now Now what Is It I have e heard that that- sounds like Ilko that said aid Dan DID Danny Danny ny to himself ond and listened more mere Intently than before Then It camEl came cameto cameto to him Why he ho exclaimed In that funny tunny little squeaky voice olce of his Why It lt sounds just like Ike that old wooden pump up in Farmer Drowns Browns dooryard That Is I queer It may lie be lo longcr r arel th this af iia I Lint but lIt it certainly Mill aIll ho be going I dont don't see sea why there should sheula bo be b a pump down 11 here bore That stake driver seems to have sto stopped drivIng In Ing 10 stakeS and now hes he's pumping It Is 3 queer very queer Well ell I 1 ought to see see co him hInt when I r get ct down way around this bend Pump er pump er cr It certainly did sound 13 as thoi there was a pump going down In that cove Danny was BO so I excited o er this that he ho forgot all about tho stake idaho driver Ho lie forgot that lie be was tired Ills His Ill little legs faIrly twInkled lCd ho made them hem go so fast tast He Ho was well n around t the he bend and almost Into the cove when he stopped abruptly There was some some- something something thing going on Oil Yes Yee sir Ir there thero wOos was somethIng queer First had stopped ed stakes stake and begun pumping Now No Stopped slopped pumping cud nd d Was making other nol noises Sometimes inny thought he heard har the stake drivIng and sometimes IH ho thought he heard tho ho pumping and other times the they seemed td to be II all I mixed together Danny didn't like It It It gave him a II queer feelIng There was something mysterious I about It So Danny was undecided whether I er Cr to go bO on or to go so back Curi Curl CurioSity Curiosity urged him isbn to 10 go on Com Corn Common Common mon urged d him to togo go bade It really was no ne business l of his ho 1 who or what was making making those Danny knew this Still It Its s a n pity to come como so far hr and not find rind out So Danny was un decided un un- un Copyright ht 1926 by T W Bur Bur- BurgeES Bur Bur- Burgess Burgess gess geES The next story The Nol Maker |
