Show 4 11 w PITI PETER TEH H RABBIT umiT n AB lT o HS SO SOME SOIE ML TALK TALI BJ- BJ Thornton 11 BUrge Burgas 3 g. g Bo Be careful when and how you I speak YOUr lour secrets then will never leak Peter Peter Rabbit Peter P ter Rabbit was wall sitting his favorite favora bramble bush in ih th the dear Old Briar Patch preparing to take a nap after having been out Iut all night He lie was Just dozing off oft when he heard voices that mad made his eyes ejes fly wide tide open and his long cars ears stand up straight Ice lh knew know tho those e voices lie He knew them the tery er in instant tant he heard them even though he was half asleep They were the voices if of Reddy Heddy I Fox ox and Mrs HeddY I Peter peeked pecked out Reddy Heddy and ami Mrs Irs Redd Reddy Heddy were sitting back to I him Just outside the edge dge of oC the dear Old Briar Patch and they were ere looking over toward the Old Pasture it It looks as If It he means to stay sta said Mrs Irs Hedd 1 Reddy Hedd nodded It It does dols loop look that way said he I 1 don dont don't I know what hat the Old Pasture is 19 coming to It was bad enough to have o Old Man Ian Coyote mako make his home there With Wilh this fellow digging around the Old Pasture Is simply going to be spoiled The rhe hunting will bo ho spoiled there Well ell thank goodness we 3 moved our home from there be be- before b before fore tore this happened replied Mrs Mra Hedd Reddy Heddy I I dont don't t mind some peo plO pie plo for neighbors but I dont don't don dont t twant want that thrower sand living too to I near me You should have seen Peters Peter's s sears ears go up at this throw Sand er or he muttered to himself Sl I wonder if they could be talking about bout Digger gor the I Badger I would like to asK them but they wouldn't tell me If I lrI I wonder it if it tt could be that Digger has hall moved up to the theOld I theOld he I Old Pasture That Is one p p pace co cC where here I haven't looked I nM n never p I feel real over there ther thereon I IFo on account n of Old Man Mad Coyote CO t i Fo However I think ln Ill I'll go over there tho the very verj cr first enhance chance I ge get I Then Peter once more moro strained his lis ears to overhear what Redd Reddy and Mrs Reddy Heddy were saying That fellow ought to be sent back w where here ho he came from grumbled Reddy- Reddy Just as If tt wo we didn didn't t have trouble enough in get get- getting getting ting enough to eat without hav hav- having having ing somebody who doesn't t belong hero here at all settle in the tho neighbor neighbor- neighborhood hood I 1 would like to know how hew ho got here They The tell me that tint he really belongs out where Old Man oan Coyote came camo from Peter hugged himself Ho lit hadn't hadn t a doubt now It must t be bo Digger about whom they were we-j i I It t r 11 I t I j I t If they to could aid bo be lJ t talk talk- ins In ng bout about n a Digger DIer the Badger BotI tr talking It couldn couldn't t be any any one else Digger was alive after aCler all 1111 and antI ho he was living in n the Old Pas Pas- Pasture ture Peter was as sure of ot it as al asif asif if Digger had been mentioned t by br byname J name It used to be easy enough to get tet all the Meadow Mice lIce and andWood Wood Mice a I. I fellow tellow wanted waited before Old Man Ian Coyote Coote and Digger the tho Badger came Now there arc are not enough h Mice to go round grumbled Reddy Hedd Sometimes I feel like moving way off some some- somewhere somewhere where That would bo a silly thing to todo tollo todo do llo do declared Mrs Reddy Heddy If If wo we weare are not smart enough to get our share we deserve to go without I wonder what Digger left the th Green Meadow Meador a for tor anyway I thought he ho was settled down there for tor life liCe I never did like him and I never will I think ho he hohas has a mean disposition People who live by themselves are aro apt to have mean dispositions dispositions lions declared Redd Reddy Heddy I 1 dont don't t like Uke him I never did like him and I never I will like ilke him but butI I dont don't t know what I can do about It That fellow tellow has sharp shari teeth tech tee h hand and stout Jaws jas and claws to ra ga gawith o with his mean mt-an disposition Till The less I see of oC him the tho better it will suit me Inc me Copyright right 1925 b by T T. TV W V Bur Bur- Burgess gess gees The next story Peter Discovers c ers 3 Digger |