Show I 1 j II TIlE TIIE TIN MEI SNOW S ThAT DIDN'T MEl T By Dr THORNTON W BURGESS Some things you ou see may often orten be Quite different from the things thins you lou OU see Old Old Mother Nature Peter Peler Rabbit sat Eat beneath an 01 ni- ni del bush looking up at what looked like a little patch of ot snow fonow lie Ho had Just thought to himself that It wasn't snow because J snow would melt mell when spang A little drop hit him on the end of oC o the nose noe That was Queer Jeer Q Peter was sure that that little drop had fal- fal fallin fall lin n from Crom that thal aider alder and right from that little patch of ot what looked like snow Another drop tell fell and presently another By Dy this time Peters Peter's eyes were open very wide Could that be b i snow after all Ha Ho began to sus- sus suspect suspect suspect that It was Spang An- An Another Another Another other drop hit him on tho the nose Yes sir that must roust be bo snow and It was melting But whoever r had heard of ot snow In the middle of oC summer Certainly P Peter ter never ne had He hitched bitched a 0 step or two forward so as to 10 get right under that branch of alder aider and there ther he sat staring up with his mouth wide Ide open Such a look foolIsh lookIng foolish Ing tell follow ow as Peter was He lie was WIS all curiosity Down fell tell another drop but this drop fell right Into Inlo Peters Peter's open mouth Why exclaimed Peter right aloud Its sweet Yes sir lt It Its It's sweet Now what do you ou know about that Huh that's the funniest snow I eter heard of Ive I've seen a lot ot of snow In my life but Ive I've never ne known i any before that tasted like honey when It was melted I I wonder It if ItI I Imagined It Perhaps another drop will tall fall Another drop did tall and Pe- Pe Peter Pe Peter ter caught In his mouth mout Just like the other drop It was WS sweet It was sweet and sticky Peter backed a anay acay ay a little He lie didn't ant to be all stuck ul UI up It If all that white patch up there was as i going to melt and drop down he didn't want ant to bo be under It From where ho was sitting he could watch atch It Little LIllie drops droll drop continued to tall fail Peter decided that at the tho rate rale those little drops were tail fall tailIng tall tall-Ing log Ing It wouldn't take tako long Ion for tor that little white patch to melt away entirely He decided to stay sIllY un- un until un until til UI It was all gone But Dut It didn't go He st stayed and stayed and drops tell fell and tell fell and so tar far as IlS he could see that white patch was was- just as big bigas bigas as It was in the tho beginning If that that- snow was melting It had a runny tunny way ot of showing It It Yes Yel sir It did so The Tho water dropped but the snow didn't melt melt and ot- ot otter al af alter ter a while Peter began to bus sus suspect that he ho had been right In inthe the tho first place and that that Ill Ill- jt 1 I c- c cA I I I I A By fly thIs Ihl ces eyes ero open cry ery wide vIde tie Ue white while patch wasn't a patch ot of o snow at alt 11 But Dut It It it wasn't snow hai what I could It Il be bc Peter waa was stumped I as the tho saying Is ia That moans means that tha ho lie just couldn't think ot of any ox- ox exI ex I at al all lb He knew now that It couldn't bo be snow anon lb Ho also als I I knew that It couldn't be Le that tha white while stuff called mold found on dead wood because that wood wooi wasn't dead What W at could It be Peter thought and thought and an thought and tho more moro ho thought though the more puzzled ho became lie wanted to ask questions but ho he couldn't think of anyone any one to asIc as questions of Ho He couldn't think of oC o anybody who would bo more mon likely to know any more about It 1 than ho lIe did What made mado those drops Why were they the sweet sweet What made that white patch Did those little Utile drops drop really come como from that white while patch If It they did lid why didn't didn i that white patch grow smaller Over and over In his mind PC Pe ter tel kept turning these Questions question until his head ached And all the tin time lime he ho sat right In la the tho same Kami place and all h he saw In that alder was WIlS that one little o white while patch high above his head It didn't once enter hIs Ills head to loo look for tor other white whito patches He lIe didn't once think that there might be other white patches And all nil the tho time there thero was one not a opt above his head and where ho could have looked at It Il very cas- cas Ca- Ca Caily easily ily lIy had ho found it It What do d you think that white patch was Copyright 1326 1926 by T W Bur Dur- Durgess Bur Bur- Burgers gess gers The next stor story The The Snow That Was Alive |