Show I I HELP By fly Vi W Dl We e never tr know when help Is near When hen needed most twill oft oCt ap ap- ap pear Peter Peter Rabbit Many JI Many aIlY a time has Peter Peler Rabbit been In a tight place ready to up In despair when help has come Comb front from some sonic unexpected course cour Little by little lithe through his life liCe lit Peter has learned that It Ii 18 I foolish tooliah ever e to give up lIe Ho Ie has A learned that when things look lo most snout hopeless help may be right at hand So 50 Peter never allo allows himself to give UI up wholly lie Imay may be bc terribly frightened but buth bho h ho wont won't give up Now when Peter darted out or 01 orthe the lie hollow log leaving noddy neddy Fox Fos trying to catch Shadow the We Weel Wea- Wea eel el el peter eter knew that the th quarrel quan would not be bc very long neddy and Shadow He kne knew that Keddy Reddy couldn't possibly catch Shadow and that just as soon as ashe ashe he realized this he ho would turn his attention to the tho hollow log once more moro and would discover was waa no ro one In tn It I Reddy will be after arter me In n a afew few lew minutes minutes thought Peter I roust 1st male make mak the most of ot my lega le while I can So I snow the Utile little gray form of oC Peter Poter Rabbit bobbed lip lip- lip He lie II meant to run just as a tar far taras faras as he h could before taking shelter from Reddy Fox That was so 0 that there here would b be no chance that Shadow the Weasel might come up with him Now In that part ot of the tho Green Forest Foret there were not many sate safe pIDO es for tor Peter Rabbit lIe passed n a couple because lie Ite was afraid that Shadow tho might come By this time R Fox was after acter him Now while Peter can an run fast tast for tor a 11 short dl- dl tance ho Is no match at nt all nit for tor husto hasto Reddy Keddy Fox In a long run He Hc has hus to depend on dodging So It was w that I dangerously dance near ear Oh dear dar ob oh dear thought Peter whatever shall I r do I cant can't keep on run n nning run run- running ning this way much longer and neddy Fox la ii I getting nearer w with every jump It JC only somebody y would help me now no but there tant isn't anybody any Od around here who wh can n Ive I've just got ot to keep on until I cant can't run another step Ahead of ot Peter P was a little clump ot of snow covered hemlocks hemlock It wa was a a a good place to dodge Petel beh decided that when hen lie Jo got 0 he would dodge underneath and out again lip lie he heran io ran but somehow it seemed to him that hIs Jil jump Jumps were w ere r getting getti hortel and shorter borter and the tho jumps Jump Juni of ot Redd noddy Fox Fog ox behind hin him tini getting getti longer and longer Peter reter reached the little litti clump of or covered snow snow cover hemlocks lie He dodged under one ot of the snow covered branches lie He darted out on the other al aide e und and a nd lie he didn't see any ono one In there Yet when noddy Reddy Fox reached rached that clump of oC o young oung hemlock trees an i started to go around It there Will was Willa wasa i a sudden and most moat startling startling- r roar ir of ot stout wings and a lot Jot of oC tine fine 1 now ano was as dashed right In face Yes Ye sir air It was so 0 It was dashed dashed right In bl his eP eyes so 10 that for lor the tho moment he h was blinded b lIe He was so blinded that Joe he h stop stop- stopped ped Now Nol of oC course this gave eave reter Pe a little extra timo and ho he made the most of ot It How those thor legs or of his did go lAnd lip lie he h ran And at th the sam same tim time off ott through the snow covered trees tree Whirred Mr Grouse Yf Tee Ye sir Mr Grouse Groi whirred right off ott through tho thoe It lt was Mr Grouse Grous who i 1 come corn to Peters Peter's aid at Just Ju t the n rIght ht minute He H It hid had been hId hId- hiding ing ing- under those thos snow covered snow cd hemlock boughs though Peter hadn't seen Men him ho h had a seen acen 1 Peter Jeter So 50 he ho waited until he h co I jump almost In nedd Reddy's face faco and athen then up tip h lie Joe whirred Good Rood old Mr 3 GrOuse Orous mut tre l Peter Petr to himself elf ci a he ran rail Good old Mr Groue I hope that sometime I can do something for him Now I I L wonder what will happen next Copyright 19 1917 1 T 1 W i Burgess The Th next nut tory Peter reter Doesn't oder Long LeD Loog- Loog Oh Oh dear ob dear thought I do |