The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
Little Bedtime Stories By st.
 Burgess
DANNY AND NANNY MEET A
 rRTTSTN

ee you seem to be strangers here.
 Are you looking for some one in narticular? Tee, hee, bee! What funny short tails you have! dealiy didn't mean to laugh. but you look so .swfully foolish staring around as II vou never had seen anything in your lives before that l just couldn't help It. l suppose you are relatives or mine, though never in all my life have l knowr d member of the Mouse family who d;dn't have a tail to be proud ot unless part of it was lost in an accident; Did you lose part of yours that way! Tee, hee, hee! y!
 It was a very high squeaky voice ana the speaker was Mouse, but a differ ent looking Mouse from any Danny Meadow Mouse ever had seen. Ills coat was grayer than Danny's. He was slim and trim, with a sharp face and good sized ears, and he had long tal!, that reminded Danny of the tail ot White, foot the Wood Mouse. Sou know all his life Danny had been wee bit en- yious of Whitefoot because of that long tail. Plainly this stranger was cousin. Danny didn't like him. It struck nm that this cousin was putting on alrs' And he was laughing at them as II ne thought them very funny. .,
 You must be my country cousins, /. continued the stranger. Il wonder if YOU are as green as you look. How ever did you get so far away from home"
 What an impolite fellow" whispered Nanny to Danny. 'He acts as if he thought himself great deal better than we are. Who do you suppose he is?'
 "Who are you?" demanded Danny
 Me? Why the idea of asking who l am!" exclaimed the stranger. Il am Nibbler the House Mouse, if you must know. You must be very ignorant not to know who l am. Mine is the most widely travelled family and the best known in all the Great World.''
 Huh! What does your family know about travelling? Mine is the family of travellers Why, you little gray runt, you never have been ten feet outside of this barn, and here you are bragging of belonging to a family of travellers! Scat Run before I bite off your tail!"
 Danny and Nanny turned to look at the new speaker. He was big. To their frightened eyes he looked bigger than he really was. He wore coat of brown, but it was dirty and rough. He, too, had long tail. But it was his face which made Danny and Nanny feel uncomfortable. It was a sharp face, out of which looked bold, fierce, cruel eyes that semeed to bore right through them. He was grinning at them and this showed mouthful of sharp, ugly looking teeth His very whiskers seemed te have fierce look about them. He stared at them very hard for a minute, still grinning. Then he turned and dis appeared through hole in the floor.
 Danny and Nanny looked over to where Nibbler had been, but he wasn't t to be seen. Danny turned up his nose. That fellow was afraid" said he. I'm glad we didn't run"
 Has he gone?" asked a faint, squeaky voice that sounded to Danny rather trembly. Nibbler darted out from behind pile of sacks of grain, then darted back again. He did it two or three times before he finally remained put. Danny's nose turned up more than ever.
 Has he gone?" repeated Nibbler anx- iously.
 "Has who gone?' asked Danny.
 Why, Robber the Brown Rat, of course" replied Nibbler.
 If you mean that fellow who called you q runt. yes" replied Danny. T guess you are right about belonging to Il family of travellers by the way you travelled out of sight when that fellow spoke" There was great deal of scorn in Danny's voice.
 Nibbler glanced over to the hole through which Robber had disappeared. Then he darted forward few steps. All his fine airs had disappeared. He's terrible fellow" he whispered.
 Next Story: Danny and Nanny Find Out Where They Are.