Show I tw ur ui ories I TH NOISEMAKER NOISE NOISE ny By THORNTON W BURGESS BURCES Sze by Bound one ner neer ne'er can tell lell And this perhaps I li Is just as well Danny Danny Meadow Malow Mouse No wonder vonder Danny Banny Meadow lI Mouse use hesItated lie He simply didn't know to make of ot the tho sounds that were coming from town wn In the little cov ot of the in creek rek When ho h had first started tor for there lIe he had heard what ho thought was wag w tho th driving of ot stakes Then as he h rew row nearer Ir Ito heard hard het sounded ilko an n old wooden pump being used as s hv ha had heard hard a pump used urd In Farmer Imer Drowns Browns door dooryard yard door yard hut But now where be lIe sat noises noles were not III stake fake kc drIvIng t and not like I pumpIng anti ond yet at times sounded like both bolh Dan Dan- Danny Danny Danny ny began to think that thaI Ito ho h had Iad gone tar far enough nough Still he ha couldn't make up III his lila mind to ea ga bak balc Presently Ire ho h stole stoic for tor- forI for forward I ward Suit jut a wee we bit and stopped stepped od He kept doln doing this he was where whre he could see seo fe clearly tho shorn In that little cove 0 At M first ho he h SR t w no on one for tor you see StO sr he be h was looking tor for one ot of those two legged creatures called nut Cut l presently a iitti notion caught aught h his hi eye ee Danny nanny hat hal rubbed hIs eyes eeS two Iwo or three Ihre times that thai morning but now he rubbed them again There close s clo-s to 10 Ills tho th grass as stood a brown bird Had It not been ben tor or that motion never would have ha seen sen him In the tho th wide wido world His bill was right re it straight up at the sly ticy hy and when ho h was motionless h ho he hoI I I I I II I II t i That who wh it Is If the Bt Bit Bittern tern Peep P cp dUnt look like Ilke a bird at all 1111 In Iii fact Ibe lie be looked moro more mor like an old brown stick than Ihan anything But nut as Danny watched this chow tellow went through a queer performance I To b begin ln with he h II opened his billI bill an 1 I to 10 bo be b swallowing air nir Then a n lot of or curious l his n nek k S My thought Danny Th That t fellow must be b sick lk Yes sir lr ho must bo to sick lck Perhaps bo ho has swallowed a t fish sh and It has lias stuck alQ k In his throat hats the tho th way lr lie aeta Ter I guess guss he lie las has swallowed It nOI The bird was once more standing with his bill pointing toward Iho th ho sky To see seo sc him yr ci have hav sup sup- sup mooed ho h could move Danny had ben been so Interested In the tho th performance ot of this bird that he had quIte Julto quit forgot forgot- forgotten ten In about Those hose noises Now low he began to Ico look about hastily tor for th maker makr of ot them Ihm But there was no noon ono coo else els to bo ho seen soen Danny Donny looked vr very this way and that way vay but no on one else was waa wa to be seen nfl nfl- rin lIy lr ito gland glanced back bak at tills this brown stranger e Danny lie He must be swallowing nn- nn another an another other fish or frog or You see sec se Just Ju t as Danny looked the tie bird began boian to 10 go ro through alt all those Queer motions again Danny actually felt sorry for him JIm to Ho H wondered If perhaps a a fish fl h had bad stuck lut In his throat and would neither KO go down dowil nor conic come 11 lii lie He was still sLut wondering when It dawned on him that all aTi thoo noises were wro coming from rein right where that bird ti 1 S Danny opened 1 his Ills eyes very cry wide Ide and stared In the Iho th rudest manner No Noone Noona Noon Noon- one ona saw w hint him sla so 80 o It didn't matter but It was rude jut just the Iho th urn same same- Time Tho bird stepped h bs hs queer motions as it If at nt last what whit had stuck In hIs throat h I gene gono eon l dO down dean n Instantly the noise nolo stopped od too After Aller a wait of ot ofa II a few tw minutes tie tha th bird ti 1 h I began his bis queer attain and lien Ihen BannS Dann I 1 I I I heard the tho strange noises once oneo one mor more Danny lanny Meadow Malov Mou waked up I 1 do ilo believe Ito ho h tried cried In iii that thaI squeaky little voice vole of ot hIM hi bin that hll that thai Is l Iho th ho stake driver r and the iho th lumper and the tho th maker of or all those queer luer sounds Of or course cours saId aid a voice olce cioe clo to 10 hIm you yea know that thai J I li v told you OU that I It Jt was leel the tho Least Sandpiper No 0 I didn't know It II replied Dan Dan- Danny Dan Danny ny fly and I have havo run a long lone way to 10 fin ou out nUl Who Is la he ho anyway It lt t Is Ij Pump r tho th ha Bittern That's Thal's I vio ho It Is 1 lumper Iho tl Ito Bittern re ro- ro r piled plied Peep reel Did you OU ever vr hear such sucha a noise from ono one on of cf lili hb Biz size I f novel never did said raid Danny Copyright 1926 1 T r 1 W W Burgess The Tho Th next 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