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Show THE CHI CKS SI UPRISE PfcTKR RABBIT By Thornton W. Burgess You'll often find from being sad Tls but a step to being glad Peter Rabbit. Peter Rabbit had happened to bo sitting near the edgo of the dear Old Briar-patrh looking out across tho Ore.m Meadows when Rcddy Kox decided de-cided to try to ili out 'he Chuck fam- i j iy fcier s m an aeemea io come right up In his throat as ho watched Rcddy I make the sand fiv- "M goodness'" exclaimed Peter. "My go uim-ss gracious' I do b. Rcddy Fox really means to dig out Johnny and Polly Chuck and their , babies This Is dreadful! I don't sec ; how they can possibly get away Johnny John-ny Is a good fighter, and with Polly i to help hirn perhaps they can drive Roddy back, but 1 doubt It. Oh, I dear1 Oh, dear' Never has anything SO dreadful h.Tpp-ne,i n the door Old Briar-patch, but I am afraid some- thing very dreadful Is going to happen now. There isn't a thing I can do1 about It, either, I won't tell Mrs1 Peter, because it would frighten lor hAlf f,- Hr.nlh Will IV,.-.,-.. II I l - v..... .. iiiuou live UJDieS to look after she has worries enough as it Is." So Peter sat right where he was and watched He wrv Ileddy db.-i;,;,.-.,!- Inside Johnny Chuck's house and then for a long time nothing happni I It seemed very, very long to Peter and all the time his heart ached and he was filled with a great sadness "How I shall miss Johnny and Polly Chuck," thought Peter. "Without them things will never be tho saum 1 Peter had quite forgotten how Indignant Indig-nant he had been when ho had discovered dis-covered that Johnny and J'olly Chu. k had made their homo on the edge of the dear Old Briar-patch. At last he saw tho big, bushy tall of Rcddy Fox at the. entrance t,, Johnny Chuck's house nnd ho kne'w 'hat Reddy -.v. is hie..:rf: ,,ut u ,t second or two, Redd; was wholly out, Perhaps you can gueafl how Pet r watched to soe If Rcddy would drug out Johnny or Polly Chuck or one of the babies. But he didn't He didn't drag out anything. Ho shook himself and then Peter could see that he bad nothing In his mouth and that on his face was BUCh a look of disappointment disappoint-ment and anger. Peter's heart leaped with Joy. "He didn't get them! Ho didn't got I them' Ho didn't gt them!" Peter kept I saying over and oer to himself "I wonder why he didn't get them." H saw Rcddy start for his home in l 'Ti '12 :.: "Well, well, well!" exclaimed Potcr, "what arc you folks doing in here?" the Old Tasture and watched him until I he was out of sight Then Peter turn-led turn-led and hurierf Into tho heart of the dear Old Briar-patch to hunt up Mr-. Peter and tell her what had happened. Just imagln.- his surprise when ho almost al-most bumped Into Johnny Chu V Never before had he seen Johnnv Chuck inside the dear Old Briar-patch. Before he could find his tongue to ask questions ho sp'ed Polly Chuck ; and then the four little Chucks, i "Well, well, well'" exclaimed I'edr "What are you folks doing In here.' My. I am glad to see you! I certainly thought Peddy Fox would get you this time- You see, I b4W him digging his way into your home and 1 couldn't see any way for you to escape. I thought he had you trapped. By the way. how did you escape?" It had suddenly come over Peter that It was a very strange thing that Johnny and Polly Chuck and the little lit-tle Chucks should be there In the middle of the dear Old Briar-pat. h when he know that they hnd gone down into their home jut h, .. . Reddy Fox had begun to dig It open. (Copyright. 1922. by T.' W Burgess.) Tho next story: "The Hidden Back Door." |