Show r v i f f cy sr i il in ray I 1 V atit yim fc I 1 t t I 1 fl I 1 little m g ar J 34 e bo ahorn fun W burgaas PETER FINDS HE IS MISTAKEN THE run SHRIKE was B not the only nelc borcer in the old orchard there war wa another stranger and it did not take peter rabbit long to discover that he was wag looked n with kith suspicion by all the other bis the first time peter saw him tie lie was nas walking on the ground some soine distance off lie ile dian didn t hop but walked and at that distance looked all black the way lie he curried carried himself and his bis move mone its as lie he walled walked made alet patr r think of croaker the grackle in fact peter mistook him for croaker iffat was because he really look at him it if he be had he dould have been at once that the stranger was smaller than croaker presently the stranger flew up in n tree and at once peter saw raw blat ala t his els tall was little more than half as long as that of croaker at once it came over om peter that this was a stranger Bt ranger to him of course his cu was aroused nt at once anything like that Is sure to arouse peters curiosity he have any doubt what whatever eier that this was a member of the blackbird faill which one it could be he be the least edwi jenny jendy wren wil jl kno thought peter and scam d ot to hunt bunt tier her up who Is that new member of the blackbird family who has haa come coma to live in the old orchard peter asked rus as soon boon as he found jenny wren jennys sharp little eyes snapped and she twit twitched ebed her funny little tall as only she can what s that she cried aho IN vho ho la Is that new member of the blackbird family who has come to 4 6 the first time peter saw him he was walking on the ground live in the old orchard repeated peter there any new member of the blackbird family living in n the old orchard retorted jenny wren tartly chere Is too contradicted pe ter 1 I saw him with my own eyes I 1 can see him now iles sitting in that tree oer yonder this very minute iles hes all black so of course he must be a member of the black bird family tut tut tut tut tut scolded jenny wren tut tut tut tut tut full that fellow a member of the blackbird family at all and more he isn t black go over there and take tahe a good look at him and then come bick back and tell me if you still think he Is black I 1 jenny turned her back on peter and went ent on hunting worms being nothing else to do peter hopped over where ho he could get a good look at the stranger the sun was shining full on him and he wasn gasn t black at all for the most patt part he was ery dark green at least that that was nas nhat hat peter thought at first glance then as the stranger moved he seemed to be a rich purple p e in placer place in short he changed color ills feathers were like those of croaker the grackle crackle iridescent at T W Burgs ga service Berv lc |