Show t thornton W burdess Bix e m t tl t L S COME OME folks seems to have been born lucky some seem to have been born unlucky and some are so lucky part of the time and so un lucky the rest of the time that it is sometimes quite hard to say which they are peter rabbit is that kind he is dreadfully unlucky in getting into all kinds of scrapes and then wonderfully lucky in getting out of them again now with most people there isn t any such thing as luck when the winter has been very long and cold and hard and food V why exclaimed peter I 1 it sounds just like the humming of busy bee 11 has been very scarce striped chip munk doesn doean t mind he comes out in the spring as saucy and pert as ever he has had plenty to eat all winter and it always makes him smile when some of his neighbors tell him that he was lucky he knows better etter there was no luck about it he worked hard ever so hard to store away that food and make sure that he had plenty many and many a time the little people of the green meadows have thought that reddy fox would surely be caught by bowser the hound and when reddy has escaped they have said that he was lucky nothing of the kind kindl reddy had just used his wits and fooled bowser the hound so there isn t nearly so much luck in this world as some people think most of what people call good luck is nothing but the result of hard work or smart wits or both and most of what people call bad luck is noth ing but the result of carelessness or laziness or stupidity but some times it seems as if there is such a thing as real luck it was that way with peter rabbit when he tried to follow busy bee to her storehouse in the green forest he saw her start from the sweet clover patch out on the green meadows she went up until she was only a tiny speck and then she started in a straight line for the green forest and peter started after her but he t made three jumps before he found that he must look where he was go ing and he couldn coulden t do that and look up in the sky at the same time anyway said peter to himself she flew in this direction and there is no place for a storehouse until she reaches the green forest so if I 1 keep right on going I 1 may find the place if I 1 keep my eyes open when I 1 reach the green forest so though peter was disappoint ed at losing sight of busy bee so soon he didn dian t let a little thing like that bother him much it isn t peter peters s way it cant can t be helped and s so 0 make the best of it said peter so peter went deeper and deeper into the green forest and he wan dered this way and he wandered that way finally peter stopped at the foot of a big tree to rest he had given up all hope of finding the storehouse of busy bee and he was tired and disappointed he sat there for a long time thinking it all over by and by he became aware of a humming sound at first he didn dian t think much about it but after a while he began to wonder what it was and where it came from then he noticed that when his ear was close to the tree it sounded louder why exclaimed peter with the most surprised look on his face I 1 it sounds just like the humming of busy bee and I 1 believe it comes from inside this very treel he looked up there way up near the top was a little hole and in and out of it were coming and go ing all of busy bee s relatives peter had found busy bee s store house lucky peter rabbit 0 T W burgess service |