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Mistress Moon was making the .593;-C0ve2'Cd Green Forest almost ,, i.,-,5: as it would have been had iclly round bright Mr. Sun be-rn .n her place. Playing on the ,,-.;u- just outside the yard of L.;'nL.'uct ihc Deer were two young Mice. They were having I wo:i:vrful time. Watching them ..;L.c two young Deer. Lightfootfl s. This uas their first win-tcr -,,- because of the deep snow they were pl'l50ncl'S in their own yard. 1113! yard had been made by tr.-,mpling down the snow. Out- iide of it the snow was too deep for even folks with such long legs .5 the Deer folk have to get :-

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'llr.o twins didn't like it. Being young they wanted to be roam- In; about visiting new places. see- 'n; new things, having new ad- vri-.iurcs. Young folks are like mi They actually piiied them- selies because they had to stay ,,..-re day alter day in that yard :i-ampled in the snow. They didn't realzze how fortunate they were to have that yard to move about in. and in which there was food ;:h within reach. is night as they watched the

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Suddenly three directions. mm two young Mice playing in'the moonlight they really envied them.

You see the snow was lightly crusted and those Mice could run about on it. as they pleased. 0! course anyone as big as the Ytung Deer would have broken through it. Once the voice or Hooty the Owl. biggest of all the Owl fam- ily. had sounded from rar away. Instantly those pretty little Mice had disappeared. But Hooiy didn't hoot again. and presently the two were playing tag and chasing each other just as if nothing had hap- pened. and there was no such thing as danger in all the Great World.

"Just look at them," said one of the young Deer. "They can run about as they please, they are not prisoners as we are. It isn't fair. Why should they be free .to do what they want to do, to go where they want to go, and we have to stay here all the time?"

"Dontt. ask me." said the other. "Just see what a good time they are having. I guess they like the moonlight.''

Presently 9. third Mouse joined the others. This one also had dainty white feet and a white waistcoat. You see. they were

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Wood Mice. and all Wood Mica have white feet. Sometimes they are called Deer Mice. because their little fur coats remind folks of the coats of the Deer folk.

"Those little fellows are so small they can hide under next to noth-. ing." said one or the young Deer as he watched the three Mice playing hide-and-seek. "I guess they don't have to worry much. They always have a place handy to hide in it there is danger."

The three Mice continued to play about and have a py-..d time. Two or three times they even squeaked aloud from sheer joy in living and playing. The two young Deer continued to watch them and envy them.

Then wiihou: wai'r.lhg. a small moving shadow drifted through the moonlight. making no sound wha-tcver. seemed to drift above the playing Mice. Suddenly the thrrc darted in three directions. They had seen that moving sha- dow. and had known what it was. Two or them reached places of safety. The other was caught in sharp claws. for that seeming shadow was Spooky the Screech Owl. He" flew up in a tree, and there hc swallowed the Mouse he had caught. 5

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on. it was a dreadful thing. Ofll course it was a dreadful thing furl the Mouse. but to Spooky it would have been a dreridfiil thing not to have caught that Mouse. The little Owl was very. very hungry. For two nights he had had poor hunt-' ing. and he was almost starving. Catching tliiil little Mouse had- saved his hip. Yes, sir. that little Mouse had saved Spooky! life. It is just so all over the Great World the point or view is what makes a thing dreadful or not. Spooky had done nothing dread- full in his own eyes. or in the eyes of Old Mother Nnturr. It was in- tended that. he should catch Mice for food. just as it is intended that W.elcomc Robin shall kill and eat worms.

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