| Show I nn I DANNY LIKES IllS HIS NEW CW HOME Dy Thornton V W Food and sleep and peace of ot mind Arc all some somo people need find Danny Danny Meadow Mouse Mours Mou e Danny Meadow Mouse was very much pleased with his new hornat home at the seashore Not very faraway far faraway faraway away Jimmy Skunk not Skunk not the th onu on he used to know back at Farmer Browns but another was one one was liv- liv livIng living Inc Ing under a bathhouse Already Danny had heard a 0 Fox sniffing at the entrance of his new home In an old log lor on the th edge edse of the tho marsh marah That sniff was all that Donny Danny had needed to make him feel really at home It If only Nanny were ere here it would be perfect said Danny In that funny squeakY olce olce of his For or just a II minute he felt a bit lonely Then rhen In the excite excite- excitement excitement ment of ot going tolne exploring he ho forgot all about Nanny lie ne 11 first made madea mada a little for himself under under- underneath neath the th dry seaweed along alone the theold theold theold old log loc where he h was making hs home It II was Just big bS for tor him to run alon aion lont Then ho hocut hocut hocut cut a little path down to the edge of the marsh All nl along alone ng tile the edge of at the marsh were ivero masen ma eJ eJof of dry seaweed which had bad floated In there ona on a 0 high tide and ond been stranded Never Never had Danny found a place where It was so ea easy to keep under cover If He promptly started In to make little underneath some somo of ot these thesa masses or of seaweed They were only short apart all along alone the edge of th the great Teat marsh so that In running front from one on to another of these patches of at o st seaweed Danny had to expose himself only for IJ a moment Finally Danny ventured out tolICe to see lICe what that marsh was like It was vaa very like the Oreen Green Meadows back home In appearance for tor It was covered with grass However then hen Danny tasted that grass crass he found It was a different kind of oC grass from tram that he h was WILlI used to There waa VU no clover there It tasted just a wee we bit fait talt He rather liked It It was tall enough for him to feel eel well pro pro- protected pro protected so he started at once to cut some little paths through this As he lie cut the th grass crass he ate atIt It It was a a very convenient way of getting rid of ot the grass crass Of course he didn't ret get very far tar the first day but day by day and night by night for for Danny was as out whenever he h happened to reel feel like going out out-he out h carried those little paths path farther and farther futher Into the th marsh The Th truth of the th matter Is Danny was finding new new and strange things and he really rully be be grudged ed th the tim time to sleep Th here flerO were curious little creatures hoppers called Sand hoppers In that grass crass and Danny speedily discovered that they were good to eat cat It was great fun tun catching them They made him think of giant Klant Fleas So while he h had plenty of grass ho be didn't have hav to live altogether on grass rass Then after aCter he h had explored a while he found round that there were tiny shellfish on the ground and that these thue thes also were good to eat when they were ere small enough tor for his hi sharp harp teeth to crack them open Twice every everyday everyday day dlLY the th water came cam creeping UP over that marsh Sometimes It covered the Irra grass crass other times Just the tops of the tho grasses granes re re re above It Then after atter a short tUne tIme that water would disappear or Of course you know that It was the coming and going or rising and railing falling as It Is called of the tide Sometimes after aCter the th tide had gone cone down Danny would find It had left behind It more mor of these little shellfish and occasion occasionally ally very tiny fishes would be stranded In little pools Then Danny turned fisherman In short Danny never had had a greater variety of at food than he h was 11 find find- findIng Ins find Ing down ther there on th the marsh When h he wanted a complete change all he had to do was to COup go up on the high land back ot or the mArsh and there h he found seeds and berries and sweet grasses crates such u sa h he had been used us d to before he came cam to the th seashore So take It ether altogether Danny liked his hll new home lie He H liked It very ery much Indeed Copyright ht 1828 1126 1 2 by T W Burgess ul The Th next story sto The Th 1 Mud fud Patch 1 I Ih t v Zd M Ii 1 Iii uri f S 'S v t nr Finally Danny ventured out to tosco tofee E-CC E bat liat that marsh was WILS like liko |
