Show Burgess Bedtime Stories By THORNTON W. W BURGESS PETER AND MRS PETER MAKE A CALL How much a few words can explain How swiftly In wipe out doubt and pain Mrs Peter Rabbit Never had Peter been more ly happy than be was now now that he had found bits h- h Peter When at last he could beep leeI still long enough to ask questions he be wanted to know What abe he Was doing doln up in inthe inthe the Old Pasture I came up here to hunt for tor you m my dear replied Mrs Mra Peter PeterI I stood it just as long as I could down there in the dear Old Briar patch Then I came up hero to be benear benear near you I wanted to tell you ou that I 1 didn't really mean it when I said that if you left the dear Old Briar patch you needn't come back Did you go over to the Green Forest asked Peter remembering h haw w sure he had been that little Mrs 1 Peter had been over there therewith with v the stranger Mrs Peter shook her head No she said I came straight up here hereto to the Old Pasture and Ive I've been here ever since Some ot of Peters Peter's old jealous feel feel- feeling Ing began to stir sUr within him What r 1 F CADT So together theY went the bramble were you doing with that good looking strange rabbit demanded Peter I I saw you touch noses with him I saw you up to In that bram bram- bramble tangle ble-tangle ble tangle with him Little Mrs Irs Peter actually chuck chuck- chuckled led Dont you know who that was as Peter she cried Cant you ou gU guess s Xo No replied Peter rather gruff gruft b Why cried Mrs Peter that was Little Pete That was as who demanded Pe- Pe Peter ter looking very nry much puzzled I cant can't say that he looked little to me He certainly Is as big as I Iam am am Just the same that is Little Pete cried Mrs Peter Why Pe Pe- Peter ter Rabbit Im I'm ashamed of you not to remember who Little Pete is Dont Don't you OU know your own children when you see them He Is the Image of what you ou used to be my dear When I 1 first saw him It seemed as tt if It must be you when you were younger Huh said Peter Who Is that with him 1 Why h cant can't t you u guess asked little Mrs Peter Cant you ou guess who that is That is Mrs Pete and 2nd they have come up here to tha Old Pasture to live They have what han cried Peter They have come up here to the Oi pasture to live They are go- go goIng going Ing to make their home here re- re replied replied plied little Mrs Irs Peter that wonderful l news hews I wonder onder what your father Old Jed Thumper says to that said Peter I dont don't know but I 1 guess it wont won't on t. t make any very great differ nce ence what he does say saTo replied Mrs Peter They have made up their minds that they are going to live Uve here and I 1 guess that settles it I 1 wish you would do something for me Peter Will you What Is it demanded Peter suspiciously suspiciously- Go with me tomake to make a call c-aU on Little Pete and Mrs Pete replied little Mrs Peter Peter pretended not to want to togo togo go but he was full of curiosity So at last he consented So to- to together together gether they went up to the bramble bramble- tangle where the two stranger rab- rab rabbits bits had made themselves hu at h home me And there Peter met Little Pete and Mrs Urs Pete Peter couldn't help thinking all the time how he had expected to fight when hen hea he should meet that Strange rabbit and now nowhere nowhere here he was making call and that strange rabbit wasn't a stranger at all all but his own son son who ho had been out ill in the Great World so 50 long that Peter had al most forgotten him Copyright 1927 by T. T W. W Burgess The nut next story Home Once More I I |