| Show U SS E i D. A PLUNGE By D Thornton W. W Burgess BurRess ur es Danger dearly dearl lo loves to steal On the ones who safest feel fecI Old Old Mother Iother Nature Danny Meadow Mouse had gone gono over to the Smiling Pool It U was no place for Danny to be and he he- should have known it However e er there he ho was and nd to tell the truth rut ruthe he rather enjoyed ed being there He lie was sitting slUIng In the middle ofa of or ofa ora a tussock of long grass on tho the very edge of the thc water Peeping out from between the grass gros stems he could see s e all aU that was going on lIe He could see Grandfather Frog Fro sitting on MJ hla IJ favorite big green He lie could see sec the heart head of Snapper the Turtle thrust out of the water Looking up In tho the blue blue sky sit he could see TIed Ked I the Hawk Over O on tho the big bl rock Billy Dilly Mink lInk was eating a a. Sitting In the tho top of the Hickory Tree was Blacky the th Reddy neddy Fox came down on I other side to get a drink had he ho disappeared when hen Man Coyote did tho the samo sano thing I A little farther along tho the shore above where he was sitting the Great Blue Heron lern was standing with his head drawn dra back between his shoulders wait- wait waitIng Ing for a careless c reles fish Ish or young frog trog to come within I reach Danny chuckled to himself Every one of f those people e I would I hate enjoyed j e a dinner e of Meadow I Mouse l It tickled Danny to think that hat he was where he could seu so many m ny enemies without one of them having the least east Idea that thattie ho tie was there Now you jou ou and I had we been in fn Dannys Danny's place pia co would have ha been worried to death How would you jou OU feel feet If everywhere you looked you OU uw saw some somo one whom you knew know like nothing better than to kill till you But Dut Danny Dann didn't worry lie ile wasn't In tho the least unhappy In n fact as I said before he ne chuckled You see he was so soused soused used to being b surrounded b by enemies so used to having narrow nar narow narrow row ow escapes every day doy that th t It tickled hIm to see so many man of f his enemies at one time while s sf su f u r. r could see CC Frog sit alt sitting tins ting on his big green lily p d. d had no Idea at t all aU that he anywhere nedr ne r. r But Dut though Danny Dann felt so safe satt secure so sure that no ore oro dream of looking for hint him I he didn't allow that feeling security to make moke him any the ess watchful Long ago he learn learn- d that there never ne Is any tins time It Is entirely entirely- safe sate for one U the little people of the Green forest or the Green Meadows to watchfulness So It was tha tho Danny still kept l ept watch with ears ean eyes eres and nose His Ills ears those little ears of his brought the first hint of possible dan- dan It seemed to him that ho he a rustling of or grass stems back of him He H to look and at the same sanH he ho strained those little ears cars f his There Thero It was again that rustling Then he saw tho the stems moving Dannys Danny's heart a little jump Ho lie didn't hav havo o see who was coming through grass He lie knew without see seo- ng Mr 11 Blacksnake thought lIe He Is following along little path I made lIe He Is so now that I haven't a I. I chants chant's ch o turn back Danny looked ed hastily all an about bout him ilm A short distance away In water stood a little clump o o grass making a tiny Island hesitating a II second Dan- Dan Daniy plunged Into tho water ater and an straight over o to that little lie He climbed out and hid n the grass Then as os ho he peeped he saw the head of Mr M 1 Blacksnake thrust out from the th rass of the tho little tussock ho he had hd ha left Its It a lucky thing I Ian Ian an swim sl thought Danny 1925 by T T. W W. Bur Bur- D r. r gess Tho The next story stor Dannys sea seo set Swim |
