Show I 1 I I THE rHE LITTLE BREEZES HELP DANNY DA MEADOW MOUSE 10 i By y Thornton W. W Burgess Burgas Helping others Is a n Joy JoyIn joyIn joyIn In which mingles no alloy Merry terry Little Breezes The rho Merry ferry Little Breezes of Old Mother Molher West Wind VincI carpe came ca e dancing the Green Meadows to tho the S Smiling Pool danced out They on the tho Smiling Pool and made mode little I ripples all over It They danced this way wa and that way They rum- rum rumpled pled pl tl up the fur tur of Jerry Muskrat sitting silting on the Dig Big Rock Hock They danced through the tops lops of ot the rushes and made the latter laller l' l por lor r together They The rocked Grand- Grand Grandfather Grandfather Grandfather father Frog Iros by making little waves roll under the big green greep pad pad lily on which w he sat By Dy and by tho the Merry Little Lillie Breezes danced over to lo the upper end of ot tho the Smiling Pool and there they Ih y discovered Danny Meadow Mouse louse sitting silting motionless an and l scared halt half to death on the end endot of ot a piece of board boar caught In the he heThey rushes They whirled around him himond himond ond and then they saw why wh he looked scared halt half to death They saw saw a abis abl abig I big bis bl fish called a pickerel In the I water alongside that hoard board That fish was nearly as long as the I board On the other side they saw iho the head of ot Snapper the Turtle and then they discovered 1 o. o t the shore In back of ot Danny Dam Longlegs J. J the Heron standing with with- without without out motion mollon waiting for something with with-I to cat at to lo come conic within reach r ach Goodness exclaimed the Mer Mer- Merry ry TJ Little LillIe Breezes and whirled away over onto onlo the Green Meadows to lo I talk it over oyer How low under tinder the sun did Danny Meadow Mouse ever get out ut there exclaimed one I dont don't know how he got there but that does docs not matter at all The Important thing thins is II Is how Is he going to 10 get back where he be be be- belongs longs gs said another Theres an nn enemy to lo the left of him enemy to the right of him an I enemy behind h him I think we wr really will have to lo help Danny cried a third Of course co rsC cried all the Merry terry Little Lillie Breezes t Then they talked It all over between them and when they had decided what they the would do they the all raced back to the Smiling Pool and got be be- bell beh belt ll lt nd ud d Danny Danny- Meadow Mouse Then all together r they huffed and puff- puff puffed til HI and puffed and huffed d and blew I with all their thell might against Danny Meadow Mouse and the old boar l on which he was sitting silling At first nothing happened because the old board bard was caught in those rushes I But nut they they- the huffed and they puffed putted and they the puffed and they huffed I and l ll they the blew with all their might and by and by h that board began beSan lo to move o a n little So then they the huffed harder blew bew b ew harder and that old board began to move right out from front It to amongst t those rushes began move and it left Ift behind farther arther and farther behind b Longlegs the standing silently on the shore And It left behind Snap- Snap Snapper per er the Turtle who hadn't seen and who Danny Dinny Meadow Mouse wasn't at nil all Interested In an old o lei piece of ot hoard Only anI the pickerel I the big biff fish lying alongside in tin tha th water moved move Ho lie swam along beside that board The Tho Merry Merr Lit Lit- Little Little I I tle Breezes Breezes- saw him swimming along So they the blew harder than Ihan board which I ever and that old rally really was Dannys Danny's raft began to lo bob up and down for in blowing so hard the Merry Little Breezes made m dc waves la Danny began to feel as It if he were going up and down Inside and he didn't feel comfort comfort- comfortable comfortable comfortable able at ot all But Dut Danny and his raft were moving straight out straight put out toward the middle of the tho Smiling Pool And presently that pickerel was as no longer alongside The Th Merry Little Breezes were blowing blow- blow blowIng blowIng Ing Danny Donny away from his enemies They huffed and they puffed and ana they puffed and they the huffed and they tiey blew and they blew and pres pres- presently li ed edthe n Danny n and his l raft r had passed the Big Rock nock and was drawing draw In Y ll r h v N CADY At first nothing happened lx be cau c the 1150 old board was caught in those rushes nearer to tho the other side of the Smiling Pool There were some big green pads lily there The piece of board caught taught In the lily lily- pads and the Merry ferry Little Breezes could blow It no farther tarther Copyright 1025 by T. T W. W Bur- Bur Burg g ss The next story Ashore at rat oo 00 |