Show 4 BEDTIME By THORNTON W BURGESS BOWSER WONDERS WHAT AILS PETER Bow wow wow Here Is where I 1 ISet Set you Thump thump thump 1 I will never let you fF F UNC BILLY POSSUM thought though Peter Rabbit crazy when lie he ran out from time lie safety of the br tangle In the lie Green Forest right an ander der the very nose of Bowser the iou sou may be sure cure that Bow Bowser Bowser ser thought the same sime tiling thing He he had 1 tried his veo best to frighten Peter and Peter ieter hid had merely sit sat there and an laughed at him Then Peter sudden suddenly suddenly ly hopped out right In front of him hinand and Bowser was so surprised that for a minute he quite lost his voice and simply ct ired In the most stu stupid stupid pid way Peter hopped along n a few steps and then thumped the ground a if I 5 4 y f I or ort t I Iss ss rs rss s r A 44 5 Sammy Jay and Blacky the Crow Hustled Over to Watch the Chase Chas which was as his way y of saying Catch me If It you can Of course Ill I'll catch you 1 1 roared Bowser lie He didn dido t really believe he would for he had chased sed Peter often oft often en CD enough to know tint that Peter was ns full of smart tricks but he ant wanted d to scare Peter and then perhaps hr hr- lit III ed to boast bOlst a n little too Pretty soon he began to think tInt that he real really really ly Iy might catch Peter this time lou see usually Peter I 1 1 ept so far ahead of him thai that he only got a glimpsE of him now and then and followed him by keeping tins tillS wonderful nose In Peters Peter's tracks but this time Ieter kept only a little way ay ahead and In plain sight all the time so BO that no Bowser could follow him without de- de depending de depending pending on his nose at all Some Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes times r Pete te would let him get so close that It teemed as If he would surely c him in the lime ne net t t Jump but somehow he lie ne never cr did nO Bowser nOser ser was puzzled There was ns no doubt about that Peter reter wasn w t dOlOg any of the thIngs he usually did lIe He didn t run In 10 a single circle lIe didn t take tabe a single long side jump to break his hIe trail and snake mahe Bowser waste time In hunting for forIt forit forIt It it In fact he didn t play the game at all alt the way wiy he usually did You see nO Bowser nOser ser had bad become so used to hunting Peter and never catching c him that he tie had find come to look 1001 atit at atIt atIt It as ns a gene game and he knew new that Peter looked at It the same way night flight do down don n In his heart Bo didn't want to catch Peter so much muchas muchas muchas as he tried to mike make e himself thin he did You see If It he should catch Peter why that would put an nn end to these games But lint tills time It began to look ns as asif If he lie really might c ditch catch him Peter was as running as If It he were lame Something is time the matter with Ith him thought nO Bowser eer As sure as I I can wag ag my tall something alls ails Peter Rabbit lIe He Isn t running right 1 lint hat under the sun made him come out of that bramble tingle tangle when hen he h knew v that he lie was perfectly cafe eafe there And why didn t t he lie run Into that hollow log we e just Ju t passed Ij I couldn't have hare got ot him there and he h knows s It lIe He mu must t have ve lost his hissen hi sen senses e lIe He must be he crazy 11 ell ellIf ellif If he lie doesn't know v enough to take care of himself It Is no fault of mine It Is e every cry one for himself elf elfIn in the lie Green rore Forest t and Peter can t expect me to let him go after the way he has lias tel teased ed me and nod fooled me and made fun of me In the past pt p t So Bo Bowser Boser ser ran rin herder harder than ever er everand and the Green Forest ran rang with his hi great voice so that everybody e with withIn within In hearing I 1 new ne that there W was S nn an exciting chase going on Sammy day Jav and the Crow hurried over overto 0 er erto to watch It and when they saw siw how close to Peter no Bowser ser was as and that Peter warn wasn t t trying a n single le trick but seemed to be having the hardest work worb to keep out of Bowser's Dowsers reach they too were sure that something was as the matter with Peter lIe lIeb tr trying Ing to reach the Old Brier Patch and lie he hell II net nc never or er get there In the world cried Sammy Samm Jav lies lIe s all nil out of breath now no and he lie t reached the edge of othe the Green Forest yet I I never ne ex eI to see the day when Bowse Bowser the Hound would catch Peter nab flab bit but he lies s going to do It this time or my name Isn ten t Sammy Jay Ja Jl c by S J G Lloyd i Service |