Show U t tf f 4 r WHY THE COUSINS ENDED THEIR QUARREL By Thornton W Burgess When common danger doth attend All private quarrels quickly end Peter reter Peter Rabbit The quarreling cousins Billy Mink and Shadow the Weasel had disappeared as If it by magic One In Instant instant instant stant they had bad boen boon snarling at 1 each other and looking as If i at any second they might spring at each I next net Instant others other's throat and the they had disappeared It was ns al alI almost almost almost I most unbelievable Peter began to wonder onder It If he be had been asleep cp ep and 1 dreamed that he ho saw those two 1 cousins quarreling lIe Ho rubbed his I eyes And then happening to look lookup lookup lookup up he ho saw sa Terror the Goshawk just disappearing 0 over er the tree treetops treetops tops The banks of the Laughing I Brook Drook appeared as deserted as it If no no Hi Ih Iring ing things had oven osen been I there It was aas as still hard for Peter Ito to believe that he had seen Billy Mink and Shadow the Weasel quarreling quarreling there thore Then as as they had ed both ap appeared again agam Billy Mink suddenlY popped into view much nearer Pe- Pe Peter Pe Peter Iter ter than he ho had been lIe He seemed to toba ba hasp bae e forgotten all about abo t Shadow the Weasel easel foi COI he be came running along the bank looking Into every little hole holo just as he had been do doIng doing Ing when hen Peter first saw him Looking up the Laughing Brook Drook PEter saw Shadow the Weasel easel go goIng going goIng Ing on his way ay just lust as ns it If nothing had happen happened cd Peter was thankful that Shadow was as going up the Iho Laughing Brook Drook for tor tint that was as tak takIng takIng fog Ing him further Ra away aw R a It was as bad d enough to have Billy Mink so near but it would have been worse orse to hale hae bad had Shadow In Billy Minks Mink's |