Show I I c I n PETER H l DOESN'T WONDER LONG n fly W it Burgess Seek for trou trouble e and you'll find Inti The thing on Wilch youve you've set sel your our mInd Old Old Mother Nature It is to go looking for forI trouble Trouble I ic al 0 ys looking for you so why go looking for forit It It If you ou do do go looking for or It you ou are sure to find it H Much the better plan I Is to watch out for It L but tt t not look lor or it H itI I think you know what I j mean Sow Now V o Peter labbit was In trou trou- trou- trou ble blo trouble enough a as is It was waif Io was hard bard after r hint him and Peter was where there were no safe hiding places Mr Grouse had just done dono a good od turn by rising suddenly In front o or of Heddy and throwing snow In his 3 face This nad given Riven Peter leler R a chance to gain a little little- hut now neddy was Vas hOld hard after alor him again n anti n l Peter wig Was wondering what happen next In let ra lIfe something Is al- al stays happening lIe JIe att his hie life is one happening n ale after another Tue Tho of or ol Mr Ir Grouse Just Justat at the tho right had been most mo unexpected d A As Peter would have expressed It Mr Jr Grouse just hap hap- happened Petted to be ho o e I he- he heat at tho the right 1 minute So perhaps It Is no won won- der wonder that Peter was so sure that something more mOIe would happen Ho He longSo didn't have hale to wonder long No Ko sir air he be have to wonder long A As he raced lipper Upper erty-Upper- ty Up over the Iho snow he be was directions watching all al althe the time In all lions as best he could Reddy Fo Fox was behind Itala but th there thero re was no knowing who might be In front of oC 1 hut him It was Wl well elt that tha Peter was vae keeping his cn yes s wide open e sir air It was well that ho was waa keep keep- keepIng lug Ing his eyes cye wide Other Other- Otherwise Otherwise wise this would be the last stor alor story about him On the top of oC a 0 tall stump the the stub of ot an od o l dead tree Peter S saw or thought he be saw II just the least bit of ot movement ement He lIe looked at It suspiciously not stopping runnIng because that have done at all There wa was no movement on the top of that list ohl stump now non II was n a gray the Ira Bra gray of oC o old wood nil all but the top The top lop was waa white Peter noticed It it That queer said ald Peter to himself That That certainly is Why ebe should the Hie top tOl of oC that tr e bo be white anti anti- the he 1 rest eat of ot It gray I think Ill I'll away awny front from them thee That doesn't look jUt just right to tome Ime tile me The ThA tot tor of ot that tree has no business to be white I 1 If- If it But Dut Peter lever cr did say any just what he wondered The white top toof of oC that old stump suddenly spread a pair pl ot of o t gR-at wings and cant flOating out out- rei PC hapu hap floating Isn't Just junt the right wort for there Yes was d In those great wings 11 a exclaimed Peter leter and an dodged under some low growing low hemlocks Perhaps you ou have o hav guessed who Ito it was that list was Waif after Peter Peter knew Ho Ito the tha very second that t Iho he top or of 0 that slump stump canto caino to life lire It was Whitey the I Snowy Owl who had como come down from Crom the Far North as S lIe lio so 50 ofte often docs does In III the winter Peter hadn't known that he was anywhere abot abott lIe He hadn't h heard 11 even cven a II rUm rumor rumar r that Whitey had hac come como down But he had suspect suspect- suspected ed who It might bo Ito the tho moment he discovered that hat tho the top of that old stump wa white whito Instead or of gray Now I am In tor for It thought Peter Whar Wh t with Red Red- dy Reddy Fox and Whitey both after acter me Z I i rime rile hite top or ol tits that 01 1 ft 1 imir uh of oC ct I In 5 Ings mill floating onto what h s It a poor little rabbit got ot I just knew something was going to 10 happen Yes sir air I knew It I t-it t It In my bonea bOlles Phi havo av to Ite keep p ll under der these a hemlocks as I muchas much as I can n Oi 0 dear Reddy car can ge get gee me undo under under I Idear the tI tle hemlock hem and Whitey can cai S get me rue It if I come orne out I wish I I had stayed at home hone In tho the dear dea I Oll patch Bi-ar-patch Br patch ar-patch All the tl time thae Peter was run run- running running run ning You die ate e Reddy was still sill after hint Mm So Peter was as running and dancing underneath those snow covered hemlocks hemlock And when he ran from CroM one such hiding place to r his lils heart art was In hi his mouth or seemed to be You Yo see then It was MIS that Whitey the Snowy Owl had a chance to swoop at at him hint i Copyright 1327 1321 by T W W Burgess The next n story tory A Red n d and ani White up Mix |