Show n un I w PADDYS PADDY'S I DI YS Y'S NE XEn YE YE-Ml Uy Dy Thornton W Burgess Slay May nil alt of ot joy and health an and cheer Do De crowded in this thia glad slad New v Year ear Peter na It was New Years Yeara Day Peter Rabbit didn't know It Paddy the th Denver Beaver didn't know It St It None ot of o the tho little people ot of tho the Green Grcen FOI For For- est eat and the tho Green Meadows and the Old Orchard and tho the Laughing Laughin Brook Drook and the Smiling Pool 1001 and the Old Pasture knew it But Dut It you could have talked to Peter that morning he 0 would have told tol you that he was feeling extra fine uc Ho was In high spirits It if you know what that means People do get In high spirits spirita even In these days When ha lIe opened his eyes after a nap early that morning he just tingled nil alt over o with a feeling that It was good to be alive So great was that feeling that Peter ju just t couldn't sit still H Ito scampered per In er to the root roof of the tho home of ot Paddy tho Beaver Deaver and he climbed up on that roof root he e tat eat right on P I root roof In plain sight fight of ot should come com that wa way Yet ho he didn't havo tho the least bit of ot tear fear lie Ho just had a feeling that nothing bad could happen on this day do Now curiously enough down downright right under Peter the very same am feeling had taken possession of PaddY tho Beaver Deaver So tar far a as con con con- conditions were vore concerned this day was like every other day clay since Bince th the tho nn snow e too had a feeling that It was a different day Perhaps that wa was why ho spent an extra long longtime time at his food tood pile picking out an extra nice of wood which h carried back an Into his house to eat oat the Iho bark barIc from Crom lie IIa II shared It with Sirs s Paddy My lIy Iy how good and tasty that bark Lark was My Iy dear said Paddy when lIen the they had finished tho the bal baik k I dont don't know why but this thia seems to tome tome tome me like a very vory special day I feel full of ot good cheer cheet and happl happi- happi flops and as os It if I would like lIk to wish all the tho world orld good cheer and Imp Imp So do I r my dear replied Mrs Irs Padd Paddy There Is l no particular reo reason sou for tor It hut but I feel teel that way a o 0 may not be ba ablo ebb to carry hap hap- hap h p I pinel's out Into tho the Great Grent World but we 0 can wish it What's that thumping That That's was II a n queer over o their heads Paddy grinned Peter Pet r Rabbit Habbit Is up there said lie he Wo We Vo haven't seen leen Peter SInce early In the tall fall but as 03 suro sUre as that bark was good Peter upon Is-upon Is Is- Is up upon upon on top toJ ot of our root roof here and hoIg he heIs Is Ii thumping thum to let us know boss hos thero Move over o my dear flud Ill li thump back with 10 my tall So Mrs Sirs Paddy moved mo over and Paddy brought that great flat tall tallot tallot ot of his bis down with II a 5 thump on his bed ot of splintered wood Peter hoard It Peter didn't hear it very I loud but but he e 1 heard it At once hoI heI ho he I thumped back again on the tho root roof and again paddy replied Now had you rou been there thero to hoar hear Them those thumps wouldn't have I meant II a mi thing thine In tho the world to toI you rou but they meant ment something toI to I Paddy th the thi i Beaver Deaver and to Ieter Rabbit Yes Ye sir ell they did di so Shen Peter thumped on the tho roof I It meant Happy New Year down downIn downIn downin In there When Paddy ladd thumped back l ck with his tall ll it meant Happy Now Year to you YO up there Of Ot course a os as I 1 said bald ald In the be beginning ginning they the didn't know It was Ne Years Year's Day DI so ot of course courso they thoy dl didn't know Imo that they were wish wish- wishIng wishIng wishing ing each other I Happy P P New Year But Hut thoy they were signaling to each other just junt to lot let each other know that they felt friendlY toward one OIK another And after ap al that Is 1 all 1111 that ft II New Year message does Each och knew know that th other was friendly and that ferlina lIns could contain noth- noth li lut hul good KOO I ii s No Now 10 hut hilI Nw ow Years S1 greeting could I there rc be 7 r H LAO CAD Pad Paddy 1 Peter Is II mip there theve bald salil he lie After Afler Peter Peler went away Paddy the Beaver took a n long swim un- un under under un under der the ice lie He swam over to hadam lm h damn and looked It all over to see that there were no leaks leales In It All the time ho was aware of ot a happy feeling Ho Ito knew that thata thata a happy day had been made hap hap- happIer happier pier b by the friendly thumps on his root that morning Peter had thumped him a message of ot good cheer and he had received that message So It was that he had happily begun a now new year Copyright 1 1326 1925 by T W Dur sess The next nest story The Leak In the Dam |