Show I Burgess Bt Berl Bedtime Stories II A SAD D D MATTER MADE I. M DC WORSE NORSE Dy Cy Thornton W. W Burgess Mountains fountains out of or mole lolls hills grow When neighbors tattle what they thc know Peter Peter Rabbit Now Peter Rabbit and little Mrs I Peter thought no one knew of or their quarrel You see they had been so busy quarreling over o there In the dear dearOld dearOld dearOld I Old patch Briar that they hadn't hadn t no- no any anyone one about But Dut that thit quarrel or part of It had been overheard you'll ou 11 find that almost alwa always s it Is only part of or a quarrel that is over over- heard hard Somehow people who are Us- Us listening In never tr seem to get the whole thing So it was vas that Sammy Jay ar ar- arrived arrived ar- ar arrived rived Just in Its time to overhear the last part of or that quarrel He Ito heard little Mrs Peter tell toll Peter Rabbit that if It I ic left the dear Old patch Briar he t I need never come bad back again That was all that Sammy hammy heard bard although I he ic sat around for some time lime afterward aft hoping to morr more When Sic ile 1 finally flew new away ay Peter Pet Rabbit was a stall cull in the thC dear Old Briar patch so SJ s u 7 y r. r r I II I I I II I I I I Isn t shat h 1 loo bad asked Tommy eb ik I Tit lit the Chickadee I Sammy said nothing noticing of at what hat he had I heard i But Dut the next day when some on told I Sammy a l v that I they I had ha seen Petel I Rabbit early that morning up In the theOld theOld theOld Old Pasture Past me Sammy remembered the quarrel He lie red how hO sharply little Mrs Peter had talked bIked Isn t it too bad said Sammy Isn't what ht too bad b d asked Tommy Tit the Chickadee who was 83 the one who had seen scan sc n Peter In the Old Pas Pas- tuu ture That Peter should hue have been driven driven en away up to the Old Pasture said Sammy Who says sas he was driven away up to the Old Pasture demanded Tom Tom- Tommy Tommy Tommy my TIt Til He lie has been up to the Old Pasture lots los of times and ho Us h wasn't driven Cn then ther either cither Well Wel of course cour he may mav not hav hue have hueben e been ben driven up to the Old Pasture but buthe buthe buthe he went there because h he was wa driven I out of the th dear Old patch Briar sad ad u d Sammy I Nonsense Tommy Tit Who drove him out oat of or the tile dear Old i patch Briar Little Mr Mrs Peter Pater replied Sammy amm She told him hint he could go and he need come back I 11 dont don't believe It Said Tommy Who r told you jou ou any such story os liS that Nobody retorted sammy Jay Jav I happened to be over o In n the th Old Briar Briar- patch h and I T heard Just what v.-h v. t little Mrs Mr Peter said She said It as If she meant ment mc nt It too Its ICs a 0 great pity isn't It Sammy tried to make mike his voice olee sound as If it he really felt bad over o It ItI itI I 11 wouldn't advise you to lo tell that story tory around much replied Tommy Tit I know Peter and I 1 know little I Mrs airs Peter and I know that thit If It she sile I tod told Peter that he needn't come back back- I there Is 13 something more behind It I all My Iy guess Is 10 that Peter went of his own o o. o n accord He lie went because he I wanted to go Im I'm going over to sec see little mile Mrs Peter and find out about it So Tommy Tit headed ded straight for forthe forthe the Ih dear clear Old patch Briar-patch while Sam Sam- Sammy Sammy Sammy my Jay started to spread the news through h the Old Orchard and through h the Green Forest Soon SOOT all the feath froth feathered creel ered people were gossiping about Peter Rabbit Mrs Peter ter and their troubles With Wit h every elry telling t the story tory grew as I such stories have a way of growing To hear some of those little people peone I Ital talk tal you jou OU would have thought that Petr Rabbit was ras the most abused parson p In II all the Great World By Bv the th Urns time the story reached Jump Jump- Jumper er the Hare over In the Green GrCen Forest Fote t I It it t had it that little Mrs Peter had I driven Peter out against his will rill and ond had turned the deaf dear ear to lib his plea I to be allowed to stay It was vas a regu regular lar tar scandal was wao that story by tile the time It reached Jumper the the- Hare lIarI You see iee each one who repeated repealed it added a n little something to It t without meaning to That is the tilt trouble with gossip and gossipy go neighbors Th ThO next story Tommy Tit Is Satisfied I |