Show I ls I I PETER MOUSES MOUSE'S NEW HOME PART HOME C II 1 At last one day Peter Poter Rouge Mouse became be became he- he came aware that h he was WiS er very thin Ho He could crawl craw under the door of or the playroom with ease case and he had harl not been able to do this before beron because I he ho had tried It one night when he first came to hl hh his new home homo to live Hye Peter ran mn down the tho stairs to tho the hall but hut It was all nil must musty I Just as If the house had hall been heen closed I l a 1 long time He lie ran Ian to the pl nt pantry There was I not nol even ln a crumb to in he be found Then he went to tn the dining room and there to his jO Joy ho he found ol h he ho could I crawl through a very little place at atthe atthe atthe the hack back of oC the sideboard and get et Into a n drawer where he found a a. bag bap of oC nuts My 1 how he ltd did cat eat The hells shells n were soft and It ll did not take Peter I long to have a Rood good meal and back hack to his home In the playroom ho ranI ran with a lI light ht heart and a full stomach I lie He carried one nut with him CorI for Cor I breakfast The rhe next morning he felt felter feltI er very happy happ n as he sat at the table inthe In Inthe Inthe the dinIng room of his house and alethe al ale alethe I the nut Peter Ieter saved 1 all the shells for he hat had learned that foo food 1 will III not last laRt If you ou cat It all and ery e night when he went back hack to tn the dining room downstairs he carefully saved all tho the h shells until h he had hall quite qUill a heap 1 I Peter learned that sleeping kept him from thinking about food so he dept often and lon long the these e days das and It was luring during ono of or these long sleeps I that Peter was Swag wael el very rude rudely awakened encil I lone one morn morning In P Peter ter heard a noise and as ag It had I been en n fOr very still and quiet lel for so long Peter Mouse awoke with a start He lIe Helay lay very ery still In the little bed bod and andI snuggled lell down closer under the bed bedclothes I clothes j Nearer and noise nearer came mho tho and then n It stopped right by his I house hom Oil Oh look how my dollys dolly's bed Is tumbled tl l and I left lett it all smooth and nice nice said a vol vole t And AntI look at tho the floor In the dining room Nut ut shells nil till around Who could have been here litre while we have ha been hen awa away all summer simmer continued the voice Oh all ull the beds bed ha have been tumbled tum tum- bled blet sail said th the voice olce and then Peter felt Celt his little heart stop heating beating for something touched him as the tho bed ht bedclothes bedclothes clothes were pulled off oft the little bed It wa was all nil so ElO mixed up after that that Peter could not think clearly about It afterward but he remember remembered ber bored ll that the voice screamed and that ho he jumped while things flew after him But nut p Peter Mb Mouse us escaped lIeI lie I knew the tho way down the stairs quicker than anyone and soon he lie wa was In the sideboard trembling and anti frightened I almost to death lIe He h had had- ll the the- nut shells to eat so for tor forI a. a few a-few few tew days ho lived JIved there and anti then I someone e opened tho the drawer where he was hiding biding and again h he had to Jump I and run I It It Is a good thing this did not happen when I was so 80 fat tat thought Peter when at last he was safe In Inthe Inthe the tho wall where he had once lived I could never have escaped In those days Hello Uc Peter said all nil his brothers and his father and mother where have you been all summer while tho the family who live 11 in this house homo has hashen I hen a way away oh uh I took a furnished house for forthe forthe fortl I tl the season season- said Peter Mouse and andl j II I l had hall a perfectly splendid time But ButI j l with all ull the begging which the they did Peter would never nc tell them theirs where he heI lived that Bummer summer or why ho moved mo I lout out In such a hurry Copyright 1919 by hy the McClure Newspaper Newspaper News New I paper Syndicate New York CIt City I |