| Show I I rums Ins HIS EYES TWICE By DT Thornton Thornton W W. Bur Dur ss 55 Beneath Deneath the tho sun lUll theres there's nothing new ne Save Sa S Sonly only In the eyes ees of ot you jou ou Old Old Mother Iother Nature What hat Mother Nature means Is that it is the person and not the thing Itself Itsel that makes anything thing new Things we see for the first time limo pre nrc rc non new nc to us Ul but they may maj- mo maybe be very cry old indeed to other folk Out In tn the Green Grcen Forest and the tho Green Meadows there are no new people p Every E once In a while some solute one ono In feathers and fur Cur who has never never been een seen before may maybe be je found Cound but that some one has luau been bee l living IK Ing- Ing somewhere and its family hiss has been living before It perhaps as long as any other of oC Mother lother Natures Nature's families Mouse had just Intro- Intro du d ed Peter eter and Danny ann Meadow I adow Mouse to nose Horned e ethe the tho Rhino In the circus tent Now he led the way to Introduce them to others of or the circus folk tolk Sud Sud- Suddenly I denly d Peter POter P ter stopped lie He sat up tip and antl he stared with all his might off ort to one ono side What hat are aro you looking at inquired Circus Mouse e A horse saIl said Peter A horse but Its It's the queerest horse I e ever evera e ass a Circus Mouse looked over o where here Peter Pet r was looking looking- I dont don't see seethe seethe the Chic horse said sald he lieThen Then something is Cs wrong with your ces declared Peter Dont jou see s e. e that black and white horse over Circus Mouse chuckled that funny runny squeaky squeak I little chuckle of oC I his That Isn't I nt a horse said he lie i that Is la Stripes Dont Don't you know i Strip es 5 a a ago go good d name for him declared clAre d Peter lIe Etc certainly Is striped If It ever er anything was But what do you men mean me ln by telling me that he isn't a horse 7 Just what I say sa replied Cir Cir- Circus Circus cus Mouse Stripes would be quit quite put out if It he should hear jou ou call him a horse Yes sir he Il b Would so sq Did you ever see a horse with a tall like his Peter had to admit that he never never had seen seen a horse with a atall atall atall tall like that It was more moro like a donkeys donkey's tall Well VeIl declared Peter If IC he isn't Int a horse he must be a a. donkey donk or a mule and some Mme someone someone one must roust have ha painted him black and ln 11 Nothing of ot the tho kind retorted Circus Mouse TIe lie isn't a a. donkey and he po te Isn't a mule and enS he hasn't been painted He He- Heis is Just the way ay Old Mother Nature made him II i hints nt l a 1 horse said lie hue That Hint Is Well e 11 If Ie he lie Isn't lont a t horse and he hue lint isn't a donkey and he Isn't n q mule mul then best what Is Jg he lie he demand demand- demanded ed Peter who was WIlS beginning to get a little lIttIe cross lie Is Stripes the Zebra re replied re- re plied piled the trie Circus Mousse Mouse and antI he conies comes com s front from the same sante country that a. a the LIon Ion rind and nose Horned the Rhinoceros came from Can Cl he run fast Insl Peter Im told he can replied Cir Cir- Circus Circus Circus cus Mouse lie Ho lb doesn't doe nt e have any chance here but I am told he Is Isery ery very swift footed lie Ho certainly U Is handsome said lId Peter but what a funny coat Never No have ha I seen an anything thing like it it It And nd nf never fr r will you jou see e any any- anything anythIng anything thing like It anywhere else re Vc- replied replied plied Circus Cirrus Mouse I wean mean never will sou OU see any auty one els else wearing such suds a a. coat I have heard It whispered that the Lion looks rather longingly at Stripes sometimes It is said that s 's family in their own country often orten hunt the family of ot Stripes Just as cats hunt us That Is why Mother Nature has made Stripes St-ipes and his family fleet footed Copyright 1927 1527 by T T. W W. Bur Bur- Burgesi g s The next story story- Danny Meadow Mouse Makes lakel a Find |
