Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1929, Page 30

BEDTIME STORIE ! _ Danny and Nanny to Move. Dissatisfaction leads to ch And"thus for prosress doth atrange. —Old Mother ‘:ltm Nanny Meadow Mouse was no longer satisfied with the home she and Danny had tader the snow. She had been satisfied with it. Yes, indeed, she had been entirely satisfled with it until Danny became heedless and gave their secret away. He gave their secret away by climbing up to the surface of the snow too often and growing so care- less that Blacky the Crow caught him | 8¢ “BUT THAT 1S SUCH A LOT OF WORK,” PROTESTED DANNY, by the end of his tail, and when he escaped from him. Roughleg the Hawk very nearly caught him. Also, Reddy m had discovered where to dig for “It's your fault, Danny Meadow Mouse,” " declared Nanny, and her squeaky little voice was very Cross, indeed. “Had you listened to me we could have gone right on living here with nothing in the world to worry us. Everything was perfect. None of our enemies knew where we were and there was no way for them to find out. But now they know. Reddy and Mrs. Fox will L: digging down all around here. I'm tired of being frightened. The thing for us to do is to mave.” “But that is such a lot of work,” protested Danny. “It means we'll have The Sidewalks BY THORNTON FISHER. weeks from now Washington and the Nation will celebrate a quad- Tennial event. Inducting a President of the United States into office is at once a significant and colorful picture, By the aid of airplanes, telephotos, radio, telegraph and cable the news will flash around the world that we have installed a Chief Magistrate. In the meantime there is visible evi- g:fin. alr X e gran are rapidly being erected, the street hawkers of novel- ties are doing a little vocal shadow [%] boxing and those | with rooms to rent are pee; hope- !‘Mlym it 3 as does on Monday, many of the Capi- tal's” visitors will march. will be numerous the city on t.hc‘nj{ht.nttm 4th. T “There are many young fellows work- for mediocre wages,” said he, “who ht, with proper training, defeat a world champion Everybody agreed. It's much easier to agree than to argue. A few days ago we attended a club luncheon. It happened to be a business meeting as well, and, judging from the number of men able to think and speak while on _their feet, there should be no dearth of public speakers. 1t is astonishing to find so many who can express themselves with clarity and even force while facing an sudience. Given a subject with which he familiar and it is safe to say that the BY THORNTON W. BURGESS to dig a tunnel to wherever we wan “&'fi it better to do =& little wor! than to satisfy somebody’s appetite?’ demanded Nanny. Danny had to admit that it was “gtill, I think you are foolishly scared,’ protested Danny. “I think you art matters a lot worse than they are. What if Blacky the Crow and Roughleg the Hawk and Reddy the Fox and Mrs. Reddy Fox do know that we are living down here, as long as we don’t | go up to the surface, how can they | t us? And I promise you, Nanny, | that I'll stay down here as long as the | snow lasts.” | “Pooh!” exclaimed Nanny. “You| would remember that until about the time you get real hungry for certain seeds. Then you'd forget all about it. You would go climbing up to the sur- face to get those seeds from the weed “No, I wouldn't, Nanny,” protested Danny, “but really I don’t see any sense in moving, We are perfectly com- average man can do his stuff. Words fortable here. Nobody is going to dis- turb us.” The words were hardly out of Danny’s mouth when two black paws came plunging down through the snow. They just missed Danny. With a squeak of {right, he fled along one tunnel, while Nanny fled along another. Those two black paws threw the snow out very fast and a moment later a nose sniffed right where Danny and Nanny had been sitting. Reddy Fox had somehow heard them down there and had dug down through the snow on the chance of getting them. When Reddy had finally gone on about other business, Danny and Nanny met at the entrance to their little home. “Well, what have you to say now?” demanded Nanny, and her squeaky voice was very sharp, indeed. “Only this,” replied Danny, very meekly. “That, as usual, you are right, my dear. As usual, you are right. We'll move. And the sooner we move, the better. The question is, where shall we move to?” “I don’t care, so long as we get away ) lied Nanny, nervously. “Anywhere is better than this.” “I know where we'll go,” replied Danny. “You follow me.” He started off at once along one of their little tunnels. When he came to the end of it he to dig. Nanny was right at his (Copyright, 1929.) of Washington and phrases come easily to the man who knows what he is talking about. * %k k' Foot ball is generally recognized as a dangerous game, but even that sport is not the roughest in the world. Many Park on Sunday day. Practically every State declares a legal holiday for some reason. Abe Martin Says: ‘The new 13-cent stamp™1l bear a like- ness of the late President Harrison, an’ ‘Il come in mighty handy in malin’ a ‘watermelon to the first or second zone. (Copyright, 1929.) ) to_be a col SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. I wish I could hab gib Abe his birfday, but muvver say heaben a long time Copyrignt, 19303 —_— ‘The Hindu dynasty of now considered one of 4. . erous native states of Willie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN., “] didn't know my dog would eat candy, but he purty near chewed up one of my all-day suckers before I got it away from him.” LITTLE BENNY Yestidday I was wawking home from skool with Puds Simkins and he sed, G, I wish I h]lg a little cold just big enuff and thats all. Why? I sed, and he sed, Because anybody that has a cold in skool after this their teecher has to send them home according to the bord of helth, thats wat it sed in the paper so it must be true. Giving-me a ideer, and this morning before I went to skool I rapped up a little pepper in a peece of paper and stuck tt in my pocket, and during the jogeriffy lesson I took it out and un- rapped it behind my jogeriffy book and put my nose dowsn,and smelt it without sneezing, and I smelt it harder and felt something like sneezing but dident quite, thinking, thinking, Heck, this must be bum pepper. ‘Wich just then a lot of it went up in air on account of me axsiden sed, Leroy you must be getting a cold, that sounds very bad, go rite home and tell your mother to take . And he quick ting her, me ‘Wich just then there was 2 sneezes in frunt of me, being Billy Cellers, and pritty soon everybody around my desk was sneezing except the ony one that wunted to, being me, and Miss Kitty quick came down and sneezed herself and found out who had the pepper by asking diffrent fellows till she came to me. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1929.' eader For ‘being and then. 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