Show I BURGESS I BEDTIME STORIES LEARNS rr MORE MOKE Uy uj Thornton W Burgess Though rh ug you ou work or though you ou pia play play Learn Learn a a little every da day teter Peter Peter Rabbit s Is Ie a useful thing One Olle never realises how useful It ledge 1 until ho he needs it and hasn't t IL it Time rhe more you kno know about all 11 s sorts of things the tho better fitted you are for tor your place In time tho Great World and to do your our part palt pailIn In the work of o time the Great Greal World If you ou allows allow a day dy to pass S with with- without without without out learning something that day dayh dayIe dayIs Ie h a 0 total loss 1088 Peter Petar Rabbit Is tull full tull-ot of curiosity but that curiosity was given Iel Peter r rby by Old Mother Nature In or order ler that lie he might learn learl things It II Is It jt that Peter gains knowl- knowl knowledge d edge d e He Ile had hd just learned from little Mr Ir Garter Snake that mem mem- members members bers hers of the limo Snake family In large gathered fathered to 10 spend pend the winter In a certain place each year r Now ow he wanted to know more Wont you OU show me where the members of your family slept last winter InQ Peter Of little Mr Garter Snake Why should I retorted Mr MG Garter Carter Snake running his thread of a tongue out In the Iho Im- Im Impudent Im Impudent pud nt manner he 1 has Because I ask uk It lt replied Peter with a II grin erin Th Thata ll no rc reason son replied little Mr Ir Garter Snake Im Int not going to show you ou that place ee but bul Ill I'll tell you YO about It St Its It's a 0 a place back hero here near the tho toot foot of the moun DlO mountain ln- ln lain tain where the th earth earlb Is la san sandy ly an and where underneath are arc a 0 great greal many ny rocks It Is la a 0 place where we Snakes can craul cra cra l In n deep enough to be bo comfortable an and 1 dry and warm warm warm You know a Snake cant can't go BO anywhere to pass pas the winter We Wi must find a place we can get ct Into This place where Iou ou saw sa all my friends coming from Is la Just the Ibe kind of n a place e like 1110 So the tho th members of ot my family gather eather there from a long distance e try tall fall There Ther we all sleep But nut where were all the mem- mem members members mem bers of i your our family going Just a little while ago aso when I saw th them m Interrupted Peter GoIng out Into the Great World of course course replied little Mr Garter Snake What a 0 question Peter It II It wasn't stupid replied sharply They were ere all traveling along together In the same direction lion tion just as s If It they were all go- go going go going ing to the th samo same place If It they were pot not how bow should I r know It If They are ar not all headed In the i t-lG t j I Ia fl f a l Well ell saM Said Peter lder looking up U iii nt at Sammy Jay Jar same lon direction now non interrupted Sammy Jay who had been Ing The last I saw aw of them then they were scattering In every very direction Some were headed for tor the Old Pasture some were traveling tra to- to toward toward to toward ward the tho Gre Green Gren n Meadow some were goIng toward lowal the Old Orel Orchard Orchard ard and some were vere were headed for tor forthe forthe the tho Laughing Brook 1300 Of course said little I r Garter Snake What else elso would you expect They'll scatter scalier for tor u a aIon ulong along Ion long way way nay and they wont won't meet agaIn until cool weather comes I next fall tall By Uy the time a way have either of Iou sou OU seen a tat fat earthworm It t Is s a l long ng time lime since Ince luce Ive I've ha had 1 II a afat afat I fat The rho more inore more I 1 think of it the tho more I think I must havo on one right away You dont don't b of you know where there Fe 11 a tat fat earthworm do 10 do you I J you ou dont don't know where there Ibert I here Is a afat fat fal earthworm a a cricket woul would do But Peter reter and nd Sammy SaI Jay t didn't know where where h ro thero was wim me fat cartim oriu or where here a cricket might be found So lit little lie Mr Ir IrGa Ga Garter ter Snake and glided aay away and In a a moment ho bo had disappeared Well Well said ald reter Peter Ieter looking lIP up lIPat at Sammy San Jay Well ell said ald Sam Sam- Sammy Sammy Sammy my looking down at Peter Pater Then both grinned and both bolh admitted d that they ha had 1 learned something they had never had never dream drean dreamed dreamed ed of before belore Copyright 1927 by T W Bur- Bur Burless less gesa Time The next story The Call Cali of the Smiling Pool |