Show I A DOOR DOOn IS SHUT IN IX DANNYS DANNY'S Br By Thornton W W Burgess ss It Is not always a n disgrace To ro hay hays have a adoor door door shut hut In your face I Danny lII Meadow dOW Mouse It all all d depends on who shuts the Ule thedoor thedoor door and ond wiy Yes sir It does so It Isn't considered po- po polite polite po polite lite to door a shut door ut a door In let another's in times of oC danger danser it Is sometimes thc tho wisest Ise t possible thing to to do Danny Vanny Meadow Mcadow never no e 1 will forget forget the tho time ho ho he had n a certain door shut In his face It was so surprising Inc Ing that he h rubbed his eyes to see sec II it it had really happened You see It was this way nay Danny Dan Dan- Danny Dan ny ny had discovered erld n a very ery sma crab carrying a 11 shell hell 0 on Ills his bacK It looked ed to him much like the shell of oC a snail just such sueh a 11 shell as he h had found more than on 1 up on the Green Meadows 1 n was vas about the Jam size and a 0 good deal the same mm shape The little crab was running away Ith with Ith IL It Now I wonder onder what that crab Is doing with that shell that sn il mut mut- muttered muttered terel Danny to himself My My he must bo strong to carry that shell around on his back I wonder what ho he does docs It for tor It covers him up so that alt all 1 can see Is Jus legs Ho Ito can run nun pretty fast Cast con con- considering con con the tho load hes he's carrying Id I'd like to see Just what he looks mIl without that shell on back I r believe Ill I'll knock It oft off So Danny scampered after arter the th funny little crab with the shell shellon shellon shellon on his back baek Like all the ret rest of the crabs he h had seen this one went sidewise Danny wa was just about to pounce on It when that crab crab- crab dl disappeared as It if ho he had been swallowed d alive Yes II sir that was wae Just the way It was as One Instant Danny saw those thos scuttling little legs beneath benrath the shell and t the he next Instant that shell was a lying on Its ita side Hide with with- without without without out a sign of crab This was This wae too much for tor Danny Where hero under the tho sun had that crab gone cone gone to lie He must must- have havo a ahole ahole hole In the sand thought Danny and and has gone eone down In that Danny poked the tho shell hell aside There wasn't any hole You would have laughed It If f you could see Danny Dannys face tace fac He H looked every every- everywhere everywhere everywhere where but at the th eliI shell hell 11 Finally he looked at the th shell It was then he h discovered that that shell wasn't empty At least he be couldn't see into it lie He II looked more closely There Ther was a claw right acro thee thai That claw was Just like a door Even then hen Danny didn't understand He sat down and stared Perhaps It was because he h sat ant still so 80 long that that crab thought he h had bad gone Iono away ay Anyway sUddenly those legs les lees lees- appeared once one more and away awny the shell Ohl Oh exclaimed Dann Danny and started after aCter It lt Once One more the legs disappeared Once One more mor the shell lay apparently deserted decried Bul Bulas Butas as before there ther was one claw which was like R a door across the opening of that shell This time Danny kept his hll eyes eyu fixed on 01 that door After a while it moved Then it was wae pushed out Then followed the th leis legs And after a moment away scuttled that crab with the shell on his hll back ack But Danny had seen Been enough l Dow to know v that that shell wasn't carried on the th crab crabs crab's back the t way he h thought it had been Ho Ha knew now that that crab had simply Imply ply backed Into that shell and had shut the th door In his face tae with one of his big bl claws And he suspected that that crab was I wasI still partly In that shell In this he be was waa right for tor he ho was wat watch watch- witch lot log Hermit the th Hermit Crab But Dut Danny couldn't understand it yet yetH He couldn't tor for the life of ot him see ace how a 0 crab with Ith a hard hardshell hardshell shell could back into that snail shell and carry It around with him TV Iv got rot to get Iet acquainted with that fellow rellow said Danny I certainly have hav got cot to get et aI- aI acquainted ac acquainted with him That Is the queerest queer performance I ever eer have se n n Copyright 1926 1126 l t by T W Bir I aNew The next story tor Hermit Gels II a Sew New Homr s 's 2 s t dI I jk 1 1 I P Ut alas So Danny after the funny little crab with the thc I shell on hIs back |