| Show I S Sor or J j Ilm MUI P Dy Thornton W V This much you will agree 1 I is- is clear r are most always alwa's queer Danny Danny Meadow Mouse Danny Meadow l was Mouse Mouse Mouse- was en en- en enjoyIng enjoying his hia dally daily lit lIfe lite at th the sea shor sell sea shore H He was cutting outline little paths this way and that way through the grass crass on the salt marsh just justas Justas as aL he used usell to do through the grass ot of the Green Meadow It liS as very different there ther from Crom what It had been on th Green Always Alway there thra was WAI black blackdamp damp earth under his feet teet It never was dry You see soe o twice a aday aday day the tide Ude came cam creeping creeping- In Inand Inand Inand and covered the th marsh Danny never got cot over the th wonder r of It lIe would always scamper back to his snug nest In a 11 hollow log loc on the high ground just b beyond yond the edge of or th the marsh marah Wh When a the tide went out h he would once mor more BOback go goback goback back on the tho marsh There Thero was vas always something new to find Sometimes h he would com comp come to little Smiling Pools Fools and lookIng Into them h he would seo see minnows minnow dart dart dart- darting ing about In all directions Then one day one ono of his little paths opened onto a a broad patch of mud Danny Danny- sat at there th re at the th end ot of his hll little path ath lookIng out at that brown mud In fact tact It was almost black There wasn't so much us as asa asa II a single spear ot of o grass crass growing on It It was waa soft in tome some places and out In the h middle a a little water was as standing standing- It Is no place for Cor me m out there thought Danny There ant Isn't a a thing thine In tho the world to hide under r Anyway It Interest Interact I J J tm Im I'm Peep tho Least said he be log Ine I dont don't believe thero thera them Is II any any- anything anything thing thIn out ther there that I want vant or that any on ono one else elso want wants Te-et Te P Pet Io et Pe-et Pe said a a olce right richt over his head heal Danny looked up In tim time Ume to see aee ft a bird that reminded him at once one ot O Teeter the Sandpiper whom he heI I had seen on on the tho th edge of o the th Smil Smil- SmilIng Ine Ing pool and along alone the he In fact tact that Is ts who he thought It t was waa until he discovered hIs mistake When he PO got cot a a good look he h saw It was Will a a stranger tranger It was IC anything a a little smaller than Teeter Tet r and nd it was WAI not spotted potted al a was wa Teeter T et r Teeters Teeter T lets legs were ere yellow ellow as a III he h remembered them and the th legs lees of o this fellow were rather greenish st Peet P t P-ct P P Pet Is et raId Aid the stranger running about rapidly and continually picking up uv som some some- something thing from th the mud Who ar are you 1 demanded Dan Danny Dan Dan- Danny ny fly In his squeaky little voice when the stranger er cam came near mear enough nouh Th The little stranger stopped abruptly and stared very hard at th Least Leut SAnd nanny Danny Im Peep Pep the pIper r saId he Then you ou roust must be b cousin to Teeter the th Spotted Sandpiper said laid Danny Peep P ep nodded I am said he be There There are re ar a a lot of us UI Sandpiper cousin Cousin Teeter seems em to like th the th fresh fruh water best but but give me the th mud fiats flat on the th marshes marshel me Im I'm very hungry ry and andI I hear lome of ot my family coming I must mut ret get tt what lat I can cn while hUe I Ican Ican Ican can A moment later Danny saw a whole lock each one on of pt whom looked exactly like Peep Fe p Their wIngs Were ivera long and narrow and nd they y turned In th the air ro 0 exactly together that It looked a IL au If It they ha had 2 been trained to do It They saw lAW p Peep ep running about and im medIately alighted and all began bean to run about It wai wu fun t to watch them th m They would make a IIttI f short run this way or a little short ahert run gun that way and down wn would go c the tb slender bill n and D DAnny knew something good I Ito to eat had been found They ran In th the edge of ot th the water and allover all allover allover over that They seemed to be having a a lovely loel tim time and such busy Utti little people Danny never vcr hail had s seen en H to I-to wa was 11 t tempted to go co out and try to got lIet ct better acquainted But Dut just as II nf na started to do this this- away they all went cry cry cry- cryIng crying Ing Peet Pe P et P- P Pt Pe-et t Peet Pe-et leaving Danny to tare stare star after them Copyright 1926 by bf TV T W V Bur Dur goes geu S The next tory The Th Giant Who Wasn't a a Glant nt |
