Show J Jl e l PETERS PETER'S IAnS TELL hIM I HIS JUS j J EYES DIDN'T m- m TOX THORNTON w I I With ears to hear hOar and tyes yes to see I Yet both deaf and blind can can be e O Old Old Mother lter Nature I I It was wag no use Peter I lee ate anything that looked to him the tho least bit like a spring sign No Nosir I sir ho Iso couldn't see ace eo a II tiling thing Yet his cou lri Jumper the th Hare litre who I had bad led him over to that lonely place In the Green Forest Insist Insisted ed eo that there thero was ivas a spring there It was waa most moat provoking You kno know It Is 15 very difficult to see seea seea a lIstIng when you OU dont don't know what the th thing thine Is that you ou are supposed o ed to see sec CC What that spring sign sia-n mIght ml ht be Peter leler didn't ha have havethe havethe ve the least l Idea I doht dont believe there is III any sign of spring around here eal said he If It thero Is what Is a it and where Is la It I wonder Vonder saM salt aid Jumper rather softly It if your our ears tar are ar any better than your our eyes ees eye Cousin leter Peter What hat do you OU mean by that demanded Peter Nothing but Just jut what hat I said replied Jumper L Lets ts t's sit lt here her for tor fora ora a 1 while under these thue the o hemlock blanches nut out ot of sIght tl ht and listen or what we can hear Peter leter was quite quit willing to do thIs Ho ito was tired and a IL good rest relt ouI would would 1 suit him tint first rat rate So he and his hi cousin Jumper the Hare squatted under the th overhang overhang- InK hemlock boughs boughs Peter reter almost forgot that lie he was to listen rhey had hao been Leen there thelo some Romo when his COUll cousin In Jumper whispered Did you hear that Now No Peter had been hll halt asleep and ho Ito hadn't beard a single UI thing I II Hi Ito said al I so o Listen said laid Jumper A moment later Peter Peler heard a Queer sound It wa a 11 snapping sound Bound Very Yen likely you ou wouldn't base ha understood that sound But Peter understood It perfectly A little hh r to tn chise other little shiver r t nil 11 the th nay ay n from the tip of ot his lila tall to the top of his Ms head bead That the th was as snap snap- snapping snap snap-pini- ping of or th the bill of the Great Greal Horned Owl Peter reler look looked d dat at Jumper Jumper made mad a sign sl nto to keep still atilt In a moment Peter Peler heard a 1 YO voice ice More tore little shivers ran up his hi backbone It 8 1 the olce ot of It was wu a low Voice but It was voIce just the same time Peter Pter peeked out from under the th hemlock bough boughan an and almost ll at once he h saw Hoot 1 was aa sitting in the top ot of a atall atall tall tail tree a little way y off oft In the tho very next tree was WI an old nest neat It was as a nest that Dlack Blacky the th Crow I had at one on time tim built there Peter P ter had noticed that nest when hen he had been looking around for a sprIng I I Ir r letor 11 out ut from from roni tinder tile Ille arid and at ono once ho Iso saw laW w al sign n but he bad had given It no more than thai a IL mere mero glance fiance for or h he knew It W was Blacky old nest neat My ty clear 1301 said th tho voice olee vole of oC Hoot Int l nt It almost tints tinse tim for ortho those thORO a eggs batch UCh It It wont won't be bo l ng now no replied voice vole from omo on Peter couldn't sea aeo eo at all You know wo we were a little late lale lal this year starting housekeeping liou ek You should have bave seen cen the th look on Peters Peter's face ace At first ho couldn't IMn think 11 re that second voice lee cam earns front from S Suddenly he ho under under- stood It came CAma cam front from that old eld neat n t a up there It was U the th voice Of o Mrs Hoot and she Bhe was is-as wa up there In that nut nest ne t Ito He H was WAIl It He Ito willed twisted and ane turned and looked After Atter a bit he made mad out two tufts I of oC feathers feathera e th r He knew what hat they ore They were Ire w r the tho two tufts of feathers that n gIt-n thi Ihl this hiS big Owl the pame ot of Horned Owl 01 He lie could see se Sf them above abOle the th edge of oC th ofha oCth ha neet ne t Peter looked at Jumper Jumper was grinning How about that spring sign whispered Jumper Peter Peler nodded His Its ears eMS had told hIm what his hia eyes had hael failed to teU tell him and Mrs tr Vera housekeeping They had eggs ggs up In that nut neat nc t despite tho the fact that snow now and ant Ice ice Ie wore were every cry where everywhere What hat better better sign that spring was wt coming Coining could anyone any one Uk ask than this Bur Copyright U it b by y T Vi W flur Dur- te gess as The Th next nel ator story lory Tho Little Bails Dalls at of Fur |