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    The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse
    The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse
    The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse
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    The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse

    By Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess and Harrison Cady

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJul 1, 1950
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      The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse - Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse, by Thornton W. Burgess, Illustrated by Harrison Cady

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      Title: The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse

      Author: Thornton W. Burgess

      Release Date: May 4, 2008 [eBook #25301]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF DANNY MEADOW MOUSE***

      E-text prepared by K. Nordquist, Barbara Tozier,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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      THE ADVENTURES OF DANNY MEADOW MOUSE

      Hooty the Owl carried Danny Meadow Mouse high in the air.

      See page 34

      The Bedtime Story-Books

      THE ADVENTURES OF DANNY MEADOW MOUSE

      BY

      THORNTON W. BURGESS

      With Illustrations by

      HARRISON CADY

      BOSTON

      LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY

      1944

      COPYRIGHT 1915, 1944 BY THORNTON W. BURGESS

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE

      THIS BOOK OR PORTIONS THEREOF IN ANY FORM

      PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      CONTENTS

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      Hooty the Owl carried Danny Meadow Mouse high in the air

      Old Mr. Toad gave Danny some good advice

      Danny Meadow Mouse was laughing from another little doorway

      Hooty the Owl was hungry and cross

      Peter Rabbit was surprised to see Danny

      The tree trunks were wrapped in wire netting

      Danny gnawed the stake which held Peter

      Redtail the Hawk screamed with rage as Danny escaped

      CHAPTER I

      Danny Meadow Mouse Is Worried

      Table of Contents

      Danny Meadow Mouse sat on his door-step with his chin in his hands, and it was very plain to see that Danny had something on his mind. He had only a nod for Jimmy Skunk, and even Peter Rabbit could get no more than a grumpy Good morning. It wasn’t that he had been caught napping the day before by Reddy Fox and nearly made an end of. No, it wasn’t that. Danny had learned his lesson, and Reddy would never catch him again. It wasn’t that he was all alone with no one to play with. Danny was rather glad that he was alone. The fact is, Danny Meadow Mouse was worried.

      Now worry is one of the worst things in the world, and it didn’t seem as if there was anything that Danny Meadow Mouse need worry about. But you know it is the easiest thing in the world to find something to worry over and make yourself uncomfortable about. And when you make yourself uncomfortable, you are almost sure to make everyone around you equally uncomfortable. It was so with Danny Meadow Mouse. Striped Chipmunk had twice called him Cross Patch that morning, and Johnny Chuck, who had fought Reddy Fox for him the day before, had called him Grumpy. And what do you think was the matter with Danny Meadow Mouse? Why, he was worrying because his tail was short. Yes, sir, that is all that ailed Danny Meadow Mouse that bright morning.

      You know some people let their looks make them miserable. They worry because they are homely or freckled, or short or tall, or thin or stout, all of which is very foolish. And Danny Meadow Mouse was just as foolish in worrying because his tail was short.

      It is short! It certainly is all of that! Danny never had realized how short until he chanced to meet his cousin Whitefoot, who lives in the Green Forest. He was very elegantly dressed, but the most imposing thing about him was his long, slim, beautiful tail. Danny had at once become conscious of his own stubby little tail, and he had hardly had pride enough to hold his head up as became an honest Meadow Mouse. Ever since he had been thinking and thinking, and wondering how his family came to have such short tails. Then he grew envious and began to wish and wish and wish that he could have a long tail like his cousin Whitefoot.

      He was so busy wishing that he had a long tail that he quite forgot to take care of the tail he did have, and he pretty nearly lost it and his life with it. Old Whitetail the Marsh Hawk spied Danny sitting there moping on his doorstep, and came sailing over the tops of the meadow grasses so softly that he

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