New Britain herald., 1926-07-06
How Danny Happened to Disappear

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 How Danny Happened to Disappear The yenturesome who are too bold Make others suffer. pe are told.
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 Peter Rabbit. Perhaps some of you remember hoV once upon a time the great Man Bird, as all the little people Of the Green Forest and the Green Mea- doWs call an airplane, carried Dan my and Nanny Meadow Mouse way down south. That Man Bird had been left on the Green Meadows by Ia cousin Of Farmer Browns Boy who w~s an aviator. While it was there Danny and Nanny had made a nest in il, and when 1t had flown away for the Sunny south they had been carried along. When they were brought back Danny and Nanny declared that they never would have anything more to do with Man Bird.
 They hadn't seen the Man Bird again for more than 8 year. Then one day they heard that familiar sound in the air and. looking up, saw the airplane coming lower and lower over the Green Meadows until finally it had stopped not far from where they were then living. The aviator left il and went up 10 Farm CT Browns house. All that day and all the night following and all the next day and the next night the great Man Pird remained on the Green Meadows: and all the little people who lived nere came as near as they dared 10 look at it,
 Nanny Meadow Mouse had said nothing would induce her to go near it. Danny felt much the same way. For two days and one night Danny kept away. Then his curiosity got the better Of him. He really wasn't afraid Of it. That is, he knew that the Man Bird itself vas a man-made thing and couldn't hurt him. He wanted 10 see If it was just the same inside as whtn he and Nanny had made their long journey 10 the Sunny South and back in it,
 "Tll just climb up in 1t and have a peek" said Danny 10 himself "1 went tell Nanny what I'm going 10 do. What she doesn't know won't hurt her"
 So in the moonlight Danny. watching his 'hance when Nanny was busy elsewhere. slipped away and VT over 10 the airplane. He up in it. Somehow it seemed quite like home. He ran all over the inside Of it, poking his little nose into every corner. The little cupboard In which he and Nanny had lad their nest was part ly open. Danny slipped in. There was some cotton waste in there. Now. cotton vcste is very soft and nice for a bed. Tn fact, it makes one Of the most comfortable beds that a Meadow Mouse can possibly have. Danny tried if. Then with a little sigh he curled up and went to sleep. Right away he began 10 dream. What do you think he was dreaming about? Why, he was dreaming about that wonderful long. lonFtr.p 10 the Sunny South that he and Nanny had made even faster than the feathered folk can travel.
 Dan vas awakened by hang, r. vas the closing Of that little door. The wind had blown if to. Danny was a prisoner in there, Yes. sir, he was a prisoi CT in that little cun- board. The worst of If was. that little cupboard was made Of metal I'd he couldn't Gnaw his way out There Ne Nas and there he would lave 10 stay 2 prisoner until some one stould oren that little door. He whimpnred and cried little for -einc very little fellow. he was frightened. Then hn made the best of a bad matter and once more curl d ID and soon was asleep. When la woke next if was 10 hear the errible roar Of the engine and feel he trembling Of his prison. He lneu " cant. He knew that, vhethcr he wanted 10 or not, he was going on a tourney. Copyright 1926, by T. ". Burgess)
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