Show U E ORlE I TIU THI OLD FX ENTER ENTER- ENTERTAINS I I Br By THORNTON NW W BURGESS The timid bold retirIng proud You'll find tind you find II a crowd Peter Rabbit It Jt was midsummer and rles sere er ripe In the old pasture Nowhere 0 hero else clao did the tho blueberries TOW grow oo so big so 10 blue and so 10 plentiful plentiful plentiful ful And there were the tho raspberries rupber rles ries and nd the tho blackberries b and the So the tho old pasture pa ent many ro ny visitor Lilton At no other time timo In all the tho year did so many people visit the old pasture There Thre re were Ml rul kinds kind of ot people people- people big bic people little people middle middle- sized people people In feathers and people In fur tur and some somo who wore neither feathers nor fur Not all were there after berries No Indeed Some were there ther inthe In Inthe Inthe the hope of ot catching others who were wr there thre after tho the berries Tho rho nesting season for tor most of the birds was WIS wa over and their home duties du- du duties du duties ties wore Here ere ended There was w no reason reon why hy they should not spend as much time timo as they chose clione In theold the theold theold old pasture So Bo those who liked berries spent considerable time there Some Somo of the Green Forest people who wear fur had children I big nouh to follow them thorn out Into the Great World WorM and so o family parties fished ltd the old pasture So day dOlY after day the tho old pasture en- en entertained en entertain Old Jed Jod Thumper the tray gray old who had lived so o long lone In Inthe inthe Inthe the old pasture that he considered that It belonged to him didn t like It There wore were altogether too many people about So Old Jeb Jek Thump Thump- Thumper er kept pretty close clo o to his bull briar castle Reddy Fox and Old Man Coyote oho ho live In different parts of the theold theold old pasture and nd through most of the year do most of their hunting else elee el o now spent much ot of their time timo right there thero In the theold theold old p pasture ure la Each knew all alt about those thole family parties partle p rt n where the ber ber- berries berried rl ried ries grew crew and each was always hoping that ho he would have a chance to catch some Komo of tho the younger younger young young- er r members member of ot those thoss berry parties partle So It was wa that with so o many In Inthe inthe Inthe the old pasture pa turo there were some somo queer ue r tinge met Peter Rabbit saw some omo of these queer meetings ot Of course Peter was up there You Youcan Youcan Youcan can trust Peter to bo be here abere any any- anything any any- anything anything thing Is le goIng on One morning J he happened to b bo be peepIng out ot of ofa ofa tl a bramble bush beside an n old cow path looking up the old towpath he saw W w Old Nan Man Coyote coming down Looking down the old cow cow- path cow path he saw aw Reddy Fox coming up Neither had yet et seen the oth- oth other other oth other er Peter wondered what would happen when they the met and he ho became be- be became be became came quite excited Down the tho old towpath coath trotted Old Man fan Coyote Up the old tow cow towpath path cow path trotted Redd nedd Fox There Thero was a little bend In the path whIch pre presented each from seeing the theother theother theother other Peter Poter fairly hu hugged ged himself with excitement as aj he ho saw aw that the they would could meet right on that bend and anc right In front ot of where he was ws sitting He Ho wondered It if he how would see oeo a fIght I 1 am sorry to say y that he ho rather hoped he ho would Reddy Hoddy fox come came cam around that bond bend from down tho the old towpath and Old Man Coyote came Around the bend from up the tho old towpath coth They met mot face to face Peter held his breath th Both stopped Then Reddy Fox jumped to one side olde Pry Pray pass pasa Neighbor Coote said Reddy In his hi most mo t polite manner Old Mm MILn Coyote trotted on He hardly glanced at Reddy Fox He ted exactly ILS as If It he h thought him him him-helt hell helt lord of the tho old pasture and that every overy one would step aside Ide for tor him Reddy neddy Fox looked after Old Man Coyote and snarled Rut But Buthe Ruthe he took p pains that pid Man Coyote shouldn't hear that snarl marl en rl Only 4 rw l 11 MW I I Prey PrAY PASS neighbor Coyote saId 1 R In his most polite manner Peter Pehr R n t heard It Then Red Red- Reddy Reddy dy Fox trotted on up the old cow cow- path CopyrIght 1924 by T W Bur Bur- BurI Burgees Burge I gees ge The next story Peter Sees An- An Another other Meeting I An-I 00 oo- oo |