Show lm S FOR BEDTIME IE STORY STOR I 1 CLA at met 0 no of theu by THORNTON W BURGESS 1 put into red PETER LEARNS MANY brating beat THINGS soothes end and bantly deemin ft t 0 1 H ARDLY had peter r rabbit abbit left heat that the 1 ment called when he discovered some new A I 1 ou rub trucks in tle the snow and right away me eye s be vinis ill all curiosity I 1 Fp druggists danger now those can these be I 1 won or rub 14 der thought he they ere quite different from the tiny tracks of WhIte fooL la in ut the first place then were 0 o much in a few larger then too they were quite t now rivals far apart iu in little groups of four popularity two little round ones and two quite almost any long onci ones year thil of course said peter to him than 5 1 self the little ones are the prints the cashel v of front feet and the long ones are it says T the of hind feet they aw art ailed states just a hide little like my own prints print ire but the only not to so big I 1 guess III follow rne in aclus clus them and see where they lead to en tropical so peter starter off lippertz lIp perty alp Is attached perty lip for these tracks vi were ere very end of easy to follow he ile bad had followed tree thrives ime est faulted indian TI T va nil A OLD 0 ITH 0 0 flours hours pains 0 7 reddy boxt foff he exclaimed under t his HI breath tion lion them quite a distance dis tonce without ds that marcal covering anybody when he happened to look back at his own tracks then music be he stopped abruptly and sat up first he lie locked ot at his own tracks enough to and then he lie looked at 1 the other tracks and a very foolas fo look crept over his face ue ile bad had noticed what he had quite forgotten and r this U was 88 that in hopping he put his bind lind feet down in front of his fore feet so that anyone who 0 didt t know that would think from yam y and his tracks that he was going in aties es just the opposite direction from what he was tie ile looked a little ducr lr ir closer at the tracks he had been fol at night lowing and now he could see the e heed I 1 marks of boena toc nale is whoever had made those tracks did juet just as be he did put the hind feet down in front of the fo forest reet and here he had been full them in the wrong direction no wonder he dibut t cadeli up with any one lly III bow foolish peter did feel feell I 1 lie looked this tills way and that way to maka ure that no one bd tad seen nhat mint ho he had been doing and then he turned about and started back the nay uny he had bud come ni fast as he could so go 11 hen he reached the place where lie had first begun to follow the tracks he kept right on presently he lie came clime to a place some one bad had dug down through the enow snow beside the little hole was an empty nutshell reter stopped and right livoy he lie lost all Inte interest resL toon I 1 he exclaimed im not solos going to waste MY time following any far ther they were made by happy jack squirrel and he ties s at home in bed now funny I 1 think of him before next time I 1 see his tracks I 1 II 11 know them so perhaps my time been wholly wasted with tills peter once more went looking for tracks track Fi and he hae for to look this tills time they were big round tracks ta in i ii single row peter look one good look at them and that tas enough reddy boxill ha exclaimed un der his breath this Is to no place for me if he Is about there Is one good thing and that Is they head away from where I 1 have hare been I 1 hope he wont take it into his head to come over this war making the longest jumps he knew how peter hurried off to anther part of the graen forest and there presently le forgot all about reddy fox in bis his interest in another set of tracks thesa these were in a double row and it was ery plain to peter that whoever made them was in no real great hurry lie them and presently came to an old stomp with it bole bule under it it the track led straight down into that hole and none came come out peter grinned so thie tills li Is villere jimmy skunk Is pending spending the wl winter inter aid said he 1 I ie ie mon wondered dered u k good many times where jimmye jimmys winter home could be and now I 1 know this tills enow snow Is certainly one floe for drilling out secrets I 1 certainly am learning arnInK Ic things to night now I 1 see tt i hat lint cite else I 1 ell can learn about and kicking his long heel to arted gether for sheer joy ieter peter st on to look for more tracks Z by byj J 0 lloyd merticc 1 |