Show Bur f Stories By THORNTON THORN W BURGESS MRS PETER LEAVES THE I DEAR OLD PATCH BRIAR BRIAR PATCH I True Truo love loye will put aside all fear To teach reach the one that it holds dear Mrs Mrs Peter Rabbit Do you OU like big words Coincidence Coincidence dence deuce Is a big bl word But nut big bis words sometimes have ha very ver aim sim simple pIe meanings When two t 0 things happen at the he same time lime It ft may maybe maybe I be a coincidence So it was a I coincidence that little Mrs Peter Rabbit took it into her pretty little head to go up to the Old Pasture on the very ery night that I Peter took it il into his head to visit I the Old Briar patch Now if It Peter had gone In a straight line from the Old Pasture to the clear dear dearOld Old it Is quite likely that he would have met little Mrs Peter But he He went by a roundabout way So he h didn't meet little Mrs Peter TV who ho ho went just as straight hc as she could from the clear dear Old patch Briar patch to the Old Pasture You see Mrs Peter was in a hurry to get set there Now as you ou know little Irs Mrs Peter was very anxious She real really really ly was doing a very brave thing Sho She is such a timid small person that for her to make up her lief mind to go ort oft by herself up to the Old Pasture required a great deal of or bravery bra Yes sir it did so Her heart beart was In her mouth as the saying Is every cry jump of the way How H w she did did hurry across the Green Meadows lippel lip It seemed to her that she never would reach the shelter sheller of the bushes in the Old Pasture She just knew that the was after her He wasn't for Cor he was over In the Green For For- Forest Forest est She was sure that Reddy Fox or Mrs frs Reddy would spring out of the grass and catch her before she got to that drat Old Pas Pas- Pasture I I ture But nothing of the kind kindI happened When at last she slipped in among the bushes she was quite out of breath and shaking all all allover over with fright She crept at once under a pile of brush Not until she was clear under It did she feel Ceel safe sare I l do hope I shall find rind Peter Peler soon said she to herself I 1 do hope I shall not have to Jook look very Yer tar far I ought not to have sent him away that way tIa I didn't really rea II mean it when I told him that he lie needn't come back It would be dreadful If It I cant can't find him Im I'm scared half to death I always am scared when I am outside the dear Old Briar patch But I cant can't help It Ive I've got to find rind Peter P ter So after little Mrs Peter had rested and quite had Irad her breath e I shall have to rest thought she back again she started out through the Old Pasture My said she how the Old Pasture has changed It isn't the lice same place at all all' that It was as when I Iwas Iwas Iwas was young I dont don't recognize any auy anything thing Even the tangles bramble have changed There used to tl be one big tangle bramble that my father Old Jed Thumper called his castle castle- cas tiEl I 1 thin thinE Ill I'll go 10 right there and see It If he is at home Now going right to that bram bram- bramble ble tangle ble tangle wasn't any n such simple matter as little Mrs Peter imag imagIned imagIned Ined it would o ld b be The fhe fact Is i she didn't recognize that bramble I tangle when she say saw it It It did didn't nt appear appe r to be nearly as big as she recalled U- U UIt t. t It Ir wasn't Part of or it had been cleared away since she had bad seen it It and Old Jed Thumper no longer lived there So Little Mrs Peter Peler looked In vain for tor Old Jed Thumpers Thumper's castle By this time she also sh was get get- getting getling ting ling footsore and discouraged I Ishall 1 1 shall have ha to rest res thought she sheI I 1 must find lind a safe place ant and have ha a good rest Oh dear I feel teel so scared Just when little Mrs Peter had hada a happy thought Perhaps Peter may find me if I rest thought though she and right away aay began bean to feel fee almost sure that he would wO I 1 just wont won't worry Everything will wil come out all right But oh dear I should be so much more com comfortable Portable if I were at home in in- inthe the dear Old Briar I dont don't like being out In the Great World I dont don't like it and I 1 dont don't care who knows it so there Copyright 1027 T. T W. W Burgess Buress The next nest story Mrs Peter Sees Old Jed Thumper |