Show STORY r FOR OR WILDREN CHILDREN by THORNTON W BURGESS PETER RABBIT THINKS THINGS OVER PETER RABBIT sat ant looking over his shoulder mournfully lie he was wan looking at that funny little tall of ills his w since old man blan coyote had pulled a tuft of hair out of the mid dle die 1 of 0 tt it looked funnier than ever you know that tall always has ban worried peter if peter ever to la envious it 1 9 when he bees aces somo some one with a beautiful tall it was bad enough to have nothing but a little white bunch tor for a tall and now to have that torn tom and ragged ot ok dear peter felt so ao badly that thai he ha almost forgot to be thankful that etwas only his tall and not he himself tharold tha that tOld man coyote had got hold of bt but peter the kind to for tai viii very long over things that cannot be helped the hair will grow out vr the ottle stars Stare looked do doveton on him and winked and twinkled again and then my tall such inch as it Is 1 will be as good as ever besides Besl dea wh I 1 m sitting on oil it no one canseco can seo I 1 it V thought he i so he stopped slopped worrying orry ing about his bis tall and began to think over the warning old man coyote had given him ile he says ive got to get him film a tat fat goose to make up for the one I 1 cheated d hl him m out of by waking honker and hla his followers over there in the pond of paddy the Beav beaver eror or else I 1 never will get back to the dear old brier patch thought peter ile he knows very well that I 1 get him a fa fat t goose if I 1 would and that I 1 lt if I 1 could its just lia ble way of tellina me that lie he la Is bound to get even with roe me and that hes made up his hl ml nato catch me probably hes biding some where along arne to the dear dea r old brier patch title this very minute midat 0 now it if it wore reddy fox 1 I mind so much but old man coyote Is so very smart and clever that ill have to use all my wits to keep out of ills his w way y I 1 could roal it ed dy but im not so sure afire old blan coyote lie he knows I 11 cant stay here 4 forever to rever to eat cat in afi this old bramble tangle and he knows too that I 1 will want to get back to mrs mra peter shell be worried most to death peter youve certainly got yourself into a peck of trouble to tills this night it wont be sate sa fe tot for you to poke your nose outside of tills this bram ble tangle tonight sure but youre glad yow you saved those thos geese even if it did get you into a heap of trouble now youve got to think of some way to get out of it so peter made himself as comfortable I 1 as aa bos possible sible and settled down to do some hard thinking the little stars looked down to him and winked and twinkled which was their way of trying to tell him to keep his courage up and so BO the night passed the little stars winked themselves out and disappeared a paea red the black shadows retreated deeper and deeper into the green forest until at last the first jolty jolly little sunbeam came stealing along and crept into theold the old bramble tangle and kissed peter on the nose day had come and still he had thought of no plan to get safely back to the dear old brier patch it was waa time he was there now and little mrs peter would begin to worry perhaps thought peter old man coyote was waa just trying bryin 9 to care me usually he spends the day in his bis house ut in theold pasture dut but you never can tell what hell do I 1 wish I 1 had wings and could fly I 1 wish hello I 1 sammy jay making sucha such a fuss fusa about peter pricked up his ears and listened finally there came to him the harsh voice of sammy jay thief I 1 thief I 1 thief I 1 screamed sammy and his voice came from over near the edge elage of at the green forest peter sighed 1 I guess there Is nothing to do but tc stay right there he muttered sammy has found old man coyote hiding biding over there I 1 know it just as well as if I 1 were there and could see him with my own eyes sammy always screams that way when he sees old man alan coyote I 1 guess he did mean what he said after all by JO lloyd WB arvice |