Show CHILDRENS C STORY by THORNTON IV BURGESS JERRY AND PETER TALK THINGS OVER OW that ills his house was finished fint shed NOW N jerry muskrat ilus krat felt that lie fie was entitled to lo at 11 little rest lie had worked faithfully now kow he could enjoy the results it certainly was a line fine house peter rabbit said so quite as it if he were a judge of houses you know any old tumbledown tumble down house some one else has given up will do for peter yes said jerry it Is a n pretty good house it Is a better house than my old one I 1 am glad I 1 have hare finished it A house like that means a whole lot of hard work 1 I s should say so III exclaimed peter 1 I work like that for the finest house that ever was jerry muskrat shook his head at peter reprovingly peter said he you never look beyond your own nose do you why of course I 1 do replied peter if Idl I 1 dut how would I 1 ever see anything jerry laughed 1 I mean that just that way he explained 1 I mean you never look ahead and plan for the future now you prepared a single thing filing for the coming winter have you no replied peter promptly each day brings its own troubles and they are plenty thank you I 1 dont see any use at all in worrying about things that may never happen it la Is time I 1 7 why of course I 1 do replied peter enough to worry when the there la some some thing to worry about who is worrying demanded jerry im not worrying it Is just to keep from having to worry that I 1 have been working so hard now you know peter rabbit that just as surely as you are sitting here on this bank you are going to haie hae a hard winter you are going to have hard work to get enough oto to eat cat you are going to have hard work to get around in bad weather and you are going to shiver with the cold ilabe we wont have a bad winter interrupted peter now 1 I 11 continued jerry without heeding the at all am going to be perfectly comfortable no matter what kind of a winter we ire have it wont make any difference to me how cold or how stormy the weather may get it wont make that much difference jerry slapped the ground with his tall tail in that house Is a nice soft comfortable bed of grass those walls are so thick the cold will not get through jack frost will freeze the mud in the walls and roof so hard that none of my enemies can tear them open I 1 can swim about under the ice when ben I 1 please after I 1 have rested a little I 1 shall store up a few supplies of food to in a storehouse I 1 have provided in the bank then jack frost may come as soon as he pleases all AH winter long I 1 shall live in perfect ease and comfort and all because I 1 have looked ahead and prepared for it by a little ittle hard work now Ill kuulii said peter then at a sud den thought he added do you have to lay jay up a store of food oh no replied jerry 1 I d dont ont have to usually I 1 can find enough roots and things in the mud at the bottom of the smiling pool then what do you do it for demanded peter what I 1 call a waste of time not to mention the work nothing of the kind retorted jerry it Is thrift it Is making sure in case I 1 be able to get nil all I 1 need from the bottom of the smiling pool bluh said peter 13 nuh uli I 1 never do any work I 1 dont have to which means that you yet learned how to live laughed jerry muskrat D 1833 1933 by T W burgess bunion w M ser service vice |