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Show by Thornton W Burgess QjM (THAT HAD BECOME OF PETER RABBIT WHERE the old brush pile had been in the Green Forest sat Buster Bear, laughing so that he had to hold his sides. Up in a tall pine tree close by sat Hooty the Owl. He had been laughing, but he had stopped now. Disappointment Disappoint-ment had taken the place of laughter. laugh-ter. It had been very funny to see Old Man Coyote and Reddy and Granny Fox ducking and dodging and twisting and turning as they tried to get out of the way of the flying sticks as Buster Bear tore the old brush pile to pieces. It had been Pile apart, they harin-t i i Sthaton them to come closer Jlf would be no chance Vt escape. Then he had sticks fly so fast that get out of the way o 1 1 they were sore a d " scratched, and worse knew now that Peter Q somehow been too sraart for when Buster had !ca last bit of brush there J sign of Peter. m From the way Buster wa. ing, they knew now thai', known all the time that Pel' there, and that he had ken them to come closer jJ they would be sure to be hi , flying sticks when he tore brush pile to pieces. Hehai played a juke on them. looks could have done it tin have killed Buster Bear rifr spot They were afraid the first place, and had is corned him to the Greet Now they didn't dare do, but snarl at him and tel they thought of him and he day they would get even all of which made Buster i the more. You see, big as he is, he really is one of i natured fellows in the dearly loves a joke, and laugh just as hard at i himself as on someone 1 is the right way to do. Sc. they threatened the ha- -laughed. Hooty the Owl looked i Buster solemnly and w "Did you know all the e Peter Rabbit wasn't asked. "Of course, I did," rep. ter, when he could get it I "Do you suppose a great like me would have it-enough it-enough to spoil the hidiis a poor little fellow like F bit without giving him r to escape? On my way; met Peter scampering fe; Old Briar Patch as fastis go. Probably he's downs ,: laughing in his sleeve to: i he fooled you all who arts to be so smart, parte; Man Coyote and Roddy uc Fox. v And this is just where ft and what he was doing. T. W. Burgesj.-WlTOSr , Hooty the Owl Looked Down at Buster Bus-ter Solemnly and Suspiciously. all the funnier, because Hooty knew that while they were watching out for flying sticks they couldn't be watching out for Peter Rabbit, who everybody, or nearly everybody, supposed was hiding under the pile of brush, and so he would be almost al-most sure to catch Peter when he should run out. - But now, the last bit of brush had been scattered and there was no Peter Rabbit, and Hooty was too much disgusted and disappointed to laugh any more. Of course, Old Man Coyote and Reddy and Granny Fox didn't see anything to laugh at. Indeed, they were too angry to laugh at anything. Then, too, the joke was on them, and you know it is always very hard to laugh at a joke on yourself. They had watched all dlay to catch Peter Rabbit when he should come out from under that . pile of brush. They knew Peter was there because Reddy had chased him there and the others had seen him do it. So, when just after dark Buster Bear had come along and offered to tear the old brush |