| Show tories II D DANNY DY Y MAKES tAKES A WRY WIlY FAC C fly ThORNTON W BURGESS In foot and drink be bo not too hasty Things that look nice may not be tast tasty Danny Danny Meadow Mouse Danny Meadow Mouse who wasa was wasa a 0 prisoner In Inan an nn whiCh airplane airplane the little people ot of o the Green For For- Forest Forest est eat and arid tho the G Green Meadows call callaMan a aMan I Man Ifan Bird wasn't Bird wasn't a I prisoner long enough to suffer any from flom hunger In fact fact- he was up In the air all only II a couple of ot hours He lie know knew b by bythe bythe I the feeling when the great Man Bird began to go down down- down down The engine had hall stopped slopped Presently there was a 0 little bump or two and he Ie knew that th they y were rolling along the ground Then the tho machine came to a I stop Danny heard the aviator talking and other people also talking Presently the aviator opened 1 the tho little door and pulled out some of oC t tat at I cotton colton waste of which Dannys Danny's bed bedwas bedwas bedwas was made made made-He lie didn't discover er Dan Dan- Danny Danny ajar ny but he did leave the little Danl door Danny took a long kong whiff of ot the the- th fresh Cresh air It was as different air from what he was used to It II seemed to him people who had gathered around the airplane never would go awa away Danny was thirst thirsty He lie was more thirsty than hungry He ito felt Celt that It Ie he could slip out and get just a I wee eo drink ot of water he would feel quite himself again After Arter a long lon long Ions time It he- he became be became came very quiet Danny ventured out of the tho little cupboard There were none of ot those two legged two creatures to be esen en Danny climbed up where he could look hook out at the Great World In two directions as os far tar as he ho could see was shining sand Band Out In front was water just as far tar as ns lie be could se see Back Dack of him was what looked much like the Old 01 1 Pasture pe at home In Inthe Inthe Inthe the distance he could see sec the housea of those two-legged two creatures Called men But Danny didn't stop to do much looking He I-fe wanted a n drink and lie he wanted It right away Just n a little way from where he ho was ho he saw a little puddle huddle of o water He Be looked hooked anxiously this way and that thai but taw saw no one ono to be afraid of Ic He climbed down from the and ran swiftly through the coe coa stiff grass grans growing out of the nd until he was close to that puddle Then he ran out and plunged d his little n se Into the water lie Ho tool took one good swallow and then such n a awry awry wry face as he made My lily my toy my such a wry taco face as Danny Meadow Mouse did make You See that wa- wa n n i K c F 5 55 5 H T 4 flab Ball exclaimed 1 Danny Iii- Iii in n a squeaky lIttle oIce t r wits wb was salt Danny was at the seashore He Ho didn't know It but that's where he was Bah Dah exclaimed Danny In a little voice olce and ran lan bad back Into the grass rass for lor he didn't dare aay out there thero In the open That taste of salt rolt water made him even event t thirstier lr tI r than h before eCore Now ow wh what I snail I r 1 just must ha have food and water Ill I'll go exploring So Danny went exploring and presently he came to a a bathhouse althou although h of cours course ho bo didn't know It was a bathhouse There was fresh water ater there sweet fresh wa- wa water Water Wa Water ter dripping from a a fauset A very little was nh all Danny needed When he had had that little he lie felt henl Ilk like a 1 new nev Meadow V Mou Mouse Ho lie crept under the La bathhouse T seemed 1 a 1 very very- comfortable safe place under under the bathhouse Ho He decided ho ha would stay there th for ii n 1 while while- lIe He was filled with the spirit of a adventure adventure ture and curiously enough he lie nev- nev never nev never didn't er once thought of borne homo homo-He lIe even wonder It Ie he would ever get back there He was out In itt the Great World orld once more and lie wanted to tee see more ot of o It There Thero must be a lot to see sec here said Danny right out loud There Is said sala a voice close to hIm giving him such a 1 start that almost squealed aloud Copyright ht 1926 T r W W- W Burgess Durgess The next story story- Danny Finds Ic I-Ic Has HilS lIa a 1 Neighbor |
