| Show Tim THE JIo IDI ENDING IJ G G OP OF n R EDIT WORRIES S Dy By Thornton W V Burgess Worry will no trouble mend meneS And trouble alwa always s has an end Peter Poter Peter Rabbit What had become of little tittle Mrs Peter Rabbit She Sho wasn Wasa t In the dear Old Briar Patch The more morehO moreho moreho hO hunted for tor her the more moro sure Peter became that she hadn t been In the dear Old Briar Patch jot for h tso 0 or three do days das s He Be hunted for signs that Reddy Fo Foe Fot or Old Man ManCo Coote oto had hod caught her Ho lie knew that It If they had caught her hr an- an any where am-where where near the Old Briar Patch he find some omo of ot er fur tur on the snow But Dut he didn t find any snow All that day he worried he-worried and wait walt waited waited ed td for dark to com come Just as aa soon as it was is s dal daik k Peter went ent up to toI I I the Old Pasture P Ho Ito had a n feeling that he might find her there It sa in the Old Pasture that she I had lived when ahen she was WIlS young younK He found her father rather Old Jed Thum- Thum Thump Thum-pei Thum p pet 1 but Lut ho he had seen nothing of lit lit- lit little tie tle Mrs Peter It a was do daylight light when Peter got back to the dear Old Briar Patch Once moro more he hopped all through the In little path paths there hop hop- hopIng hoping hop hoping ing to find th that t she ahe h hid had d returned while ho lie was away But she he hadn t It ws as 88 so unlike ke little Mr Mrs Peter to go a away ay from the dear dearOld dearOld dearOld Old Briar Patch that Peter as assure assure sure something dreadful had bad hap hap- happened hap happened Early Carly In the afternoon Peter Farmer Bro n Browns s a Bo Boy come toward I tho dear Old Briar Patch HeM He Ha M MI as I carl Ing something When he got gotI I near enough Peter saw aw that It was wasI I that box trap in which he ho had been caught up In Farmer FarmA arm Browns Brown young orchard Could It be that Brown B s Bov Boy was going to set Bet that trap for him again 1 Could It be that Farmer Bro Bros 0 Boy as aa asso so foolish as to think that he Peter would go Into that trap agaIn Farmer Brown Browns Brown's Boy Doy came on until he ho reached the edge of ot the dear Old Briar Patch Then he set that box trap down on the snow and opened it Peter stared Some Some- Something Something thing moved moed ed that box Then out hopped little Mrs Mra Peter and Into the he dear Old Briar Patch as rut fast a as h r legs logs could take her Farmer Bro Browns Brown's ns n's Boy Eoy laughed aloud There you ou are said sold he I I Imo Peter I la back hel heie hete e and ond I Iguess Iguess Iguess guess from now on sou aou ou two ill 11 keep away from our young or- or orchard or orchard chard hard I III 11 II see to It that you ou ha hae ha e plenty to eat a long as this bad e either ther lasts lats and then you will lit lae la no need ned of eating barks bark's bark k He lIe was as as good as hl hi his word Ho He dearOld left a a lot of good things In the dear Old Briar Pat Patch h and then went oft off Peter rushed to sub rub nose with Ith little Mr Mm Mra Peter theOld I II never never ne neer never er leave rubI the tho I Old Briar Patch ratch again no matter It if I starve to death said gald Mrs I I II I I Ill M never never neer M never leave lease the theOld 01 lId 1 Briar latch Itch again no lint mit- mittel mat tel If I starve o to so death saId Eald Mrs Peler Peter Peter Then she told Peter her hersto sto y When ho had been gone t t O 0 III das s she abe couldn t sUnd it any long long- longer longer longer er She kept thinking of the tho ten ten- tender tendes ten tender der des bark In the old orchard he ho had hod told her about Finally the night before Peter had escaped from Par Far Farmer mer iner Brown s I barn sho she had gone up there thre That box trap had been set again and she ho had been caught just as aa Peter had been caught tt t hy by Farmer Bro n Browns s Boy had hd brought her down don to the dear Old Briar Patch she sho didn t know But lie ho I had and that was enough The Tha reason he ho had was because I Farmer Brown s Boy had guessed that thi thil a was Peters Peter's mate Ho lie h hd d understood that It was hunger that had led those thoe t tto 0 rabbits up Into the young orchard He kne knew kne that had probably m made mido de for the dear Old Briar P Pitch Patch hen ihen tt henho ho hd escaped from the barn and so the next da day he ho had taken tat n little Mr Peter down there Copyright 1924 bv by T W WY Bur Bur- Burgess Burgess gess I 1 The next story stori One Who Vho En- En EnJo En Enjoy jO joy cd Id the tha Winter o |
