Show STOR STORY III I 1 by W burdgess BURt GESS PETER PETE R RABBIT MEETS LIGHTFOOT PETER RABBIT was wn on hia his way back from rom the pond of faddy vadd the beaver deep to the green forest lie bad juet just can seen mr sir and mrs mm quack and their tea ten young quack quacks start on their lone long terrible JOur journey to the far away South southland landl fare wella wells are aldays rather sad end and this particular farewell bad had left peter with a lump in his throat a queer choky feeling if I 1 were sure that they would return next spring it be no bad he lie muttered its it those terrible gun guns I 1 know what it Is I 1 to have to natch out for them farm er r brown browne boy used to hunt me one of them but he doehn t any more and he lie won t let anybody else near dear the old drier brier patch with one or over here in the green forest hut even when be he did bunt hunt me it gasn I 1 I 1 nai thine like what the quacks have to so go through if it I 1 kept my eyes open I 1 could tell when 0 44 4 4 4 1 I hop hops they will got through all right 1 said he a hunter was coming corning and could hide in a bole if I 1 wanted to I 1 never bad had to worry about nay my meals but with the quacks it la to a aba an laud d times worse they ve cot got to ent cat while making that long journey and they can con eat only when there thero Is in the right kind of food hunter hunters with terrible euna guns know where thoo those places are and bide hide there rnell the duck ducks come and the ducke ducks have no way of knowing whether the hunt erg ern are re there or oot not that bunting I 1 its ts it well what Is it are you talking to yourself about I 1 leter eter rabbit peter looked up with a start to find the oft soft beautiful eye eyes of lightfoot the deer gazing down at him over the top of a little hemlock tree its awful declared peter its worse than unfair it docent giro give alem any chance at alv all 1 I suppose it must he so if you say eo to replied lightfoot kutsup but suppose you tell me what all this aw ie in about peter grinned then he beean began at the beginning and told lightfoot all about mr sir and lira itra quack and the awful dangers they must face on their lone long journey to the far away southland and back again in the spring all fit be because cause of the heartless hunters with terrible guns guna light foot listened and bla his great soft eyes were oiled filled with pity pit for the trou brou bice bles of the quack family 1 I hope they will get through all right eald said be and I 1 hope they will set get back bacs la in the spring it Is bad to be bunted hunted by men at one time thus of the year as am so to one know knows better than I 1 do but to be huntus tn in the pring spring as well as in to the fall t Is more than twice as a bad lien bien are strange creatures I 1 do not un dera degatani tani them at all none of the people of the green forest would think of doing such terri terribly blu I 1 suppose it la is quite right to hurt others in order to get enough to eat though I 1 am thankful to eay say that I 1 I 1 are ave never had to do that thal but to hunt other others just for the fun of hunting bunting Is something I 1 cannot un no der stanI at all and yet that la Is what men rien seem to do it for I 1 guess the trouble Is to they never have been hunted themselves and dont know bow haw it feels sometimes 1 I think hunt one some day to teach him a lesson what are you laugh tough ing at al I 1 eter at the idea of your hunting a man replied peter your heart Is right lightfoot lot you are too timid annl gentle to frighten any nc ne WK big a as you are I 1 I 1 fear you with a eingle single swift bound light foot sprang out in front of peter lie stamped hie his shapely hoofe hoofs low ered erel bis his handsome band gome bead head until the sharp points of hie his horns borne pointed ht at peter lifted the hair along the back of hie his neck and mode made a motion as 01 if it to plunge at peter ills eyes peter had always thought no soft oft and gentle seemed to flash fire oh V cried peter in a very faint frightened sounding voice and leaped to one side before it entered hia his foolish mille head that licht light toot foot waa was juet just pretending lightfoot chuckled did you lay say I 1 could nit frighten anyone anyo nol he de candll inan did 11 II 1 know yon you could look so terribly fierce stammered peter those hogo horna horns look really dangerous when ben you point them that way why why what Is 1 that to tham hare liars yoa you been tearing Korop bodye coat coati light NOV peter peters a eyes were wide with wonder and suspicion ayt W |