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-By THORNTON \V. BLRGESS. -'
i ne trutn or tms is very clear:
Familiar things ar© never queer.
—Old Mother Nature.
Danny Sees a Queer Fisherman.
Danny Meadow Mouse kept think
s. -- —
lng about the dreadful story of Egret,
the beautiful white cousin of Eong
legs the Heron. It filled him with
such sadness that he began to think
the Sunny South a very dreadful
place. But a day or two later when
he visited the bank of the river In
the hope of seeing Egret again, he
saw Instead a stranger who looked so
funny that he forgot all about Egret
and his sad story.
It happened that where Danny was
was very near to where the river
entered the ocean. As Danny reached
the bank the first thing he saw was
a great bird with very big broad
wings flying in from the ocean. He
was flying low just above the water.
He would flap his great wings a few
times, and then sail. He appeared
to have no neck al nil, but a very
big and queer bill.
Now right in front of Danny, two
or three feet out In the water, was
an old stump. Straight to this came
the stranger and alighted on it. Then
to Danny's surprise he discovered
that the stranger had a long neck.
He had simply had it folded back on
his shoulders, much as Longlegs
folds his back when he is flying. But
the queerest tiling about this stranger
was his bill. It was very long, and
under it was a great hag. As he sat
on the stump he held his bill pointed
down so that the bag rested against
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hls neck. Somehow It made him look
very dignified. His coat was chiefly
brown. The back of hls head and hls
neck were white with touches of faint
yellow. Hls feet were webbed like
the feet of Honker the Goose.
Danny was trying to get courage
enough to speak to the stranger when
the latter spread his wings and sailed
out over the water. Suddenly he
dropped Into the water with a great
splash head first. A second later he
tossed a shining fish Into the air.
"What is that hie bag under his bill
far?" Danny asked.
opened his gjeat hill and the fish
disappeared head first down his
throat.
Danny saw him catch several fish
In this way. plunging Into the water
for each one and making the water
fly In all directions. Finally he re
turned to the old stump and settled
himself as If he Intended to stay there
awhile. Two or three times Danny
opened his mouth to speak, but he
v as too hashful, perhaps if the truth
Were known, he was a wee bit afraid.
The stranger appeared to be taking
a nap when Mocker the Mockingbird
happened along. "Hello!" exclaimed
Mocker. “What are you doing over
here, Danny Meadow Mouse?"
"I'm watching a queer fellow sit
ting on that stump,” replied Danny.
"He has been fishing, and now' he
seems to be tak ng a nap. Never in
all rriy life have 1 seen a queerer
looking fellow Who is he?”
"Oh. that's Grandpa Pelican, the
Blown Peiivan I thoueht everybody
down here knew him.” replied i
Mocker.
"What is that big hag under his
bill for?" Danny asked.
"To catch his fish In of course,"
leplled Mocker. He just scoops them
into that and then he has them."
Copyright. 1#23. ^
The next story: "Danny Has a Sud
den Fright "
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