Part 8 (1/1)

Danny didn't answer The fact is, he was too frightened to answer Besides, he didn't knohat he could do So he just kept still, but his bright eyes never once left Reddy's cruel face

For all his fright, Danny was doing soht places before and had learned never to give up hope Sohten Reddy away Anyway, Reddy had to get him out of that old can before he would ad tis he could think of to frighten poor Danny Meadow Mouse

At last he grew tired of this and made up his mind that that it was time to end it and Danny Meadow Mouse at the sa in the end of the old can, but the opening was too set more than his nose in, and he only scratched it on the sharp edges without soDanny

”I'll pull you out,” said Reddy and thrust in one black paw

Danny promptly bit it so hard that Reddy yelped with pain and pulled it out in a hurry Presently he tried again with the other paw Danny bit this one harder still, and Reddy danced with pain and anger Then he lost his te to do, as it always is He hit the old can, and away it rolled with Danny Meadow Mouse inside This see after it and hit it again Then he batted it first this way and then that way, growing angrier and angrier And all the tiot a terrible shaking up

Back and forth across the patch of short grass Reddy knocked the old can, and he was in such a rage that he didn't notice where he was knocking it to Finally he sent it spinning into the long grass on the far side of the open patch, close to one of Danny's private little paths Like a flash Danny was out and scurrying along the little path He dodged into another and presently into a third, which brought hile of barbed wire left there by Farmer Brohen he had built a new fence Under this he was safe

[Illustration: _Like a flash, Danny dodged into a tangle of barbed wire_]

”Phew!” exclai very hard ”That was the narrowest escape yet! But I guess I'll get that special grass seed I started out for, after all”

And he did, while to this day Reddy Fox wonders how Danny got out of the old to it

_And so you see what teive it rein; It cheats theain_

Danny has had many more adventures, but there isn't roo is anxious that you should hear about the queer things that have happened to him

They are told in the next book

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_Bedtime Story-Books_

By THORNTON W BURGESS

The Adventures of Reddy Fox The Adventures of Johnny Chuck The Adventures of Peter Cottontail The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum The Adventures of Mr Mocker The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse The Adventures of Grandfather Frog The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel The Adventures of Sammy Jay The Adventures of Buster Bear The Adventures of Old Mr Toad The Adventures of prickly Porky The Adventures of Old Man Coyote The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver The Adventures of Poor Mrs Quack The Adventures of Bobby coon The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk The Adventures of Bob White The Adventures of Ol' Mistah Buzzard