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Show PEACE fcXlJ HAPPINESS IN Till OLD HRI n-PTCH By ThOrntOn Y . Burgos Misunderstandings cleared away i Bring peace and happ.ness ., slay. PETER RABBIT Johnny Chuck worked Polly Chuck worked. Neither one wasted a moment. They may seem lazy folks when you seo them sluing around doing nothing, but when they have something to do the do it without ; waste of time. They were In s hurry to get that old house in the I heart of the dear ( ld Briar-patch In rden The heap of yellow sand n hlCh WOUld be t he doorstep lr. the , middle of the Briar-patch giew sur-I sur-I prislngly fast. Peter Rabbit sat around looking on and secretly glad Hint he didn't have I to work like that. There was Just one 'thing that worried Peter. It was the ( fear that Johnny Chuck would cut 1 such i r.ig path through the brambles , to h!s dodrstep thut Rcddy Kox might get in the old Briar-patch in that ' way But Peter need not have wor-i wor-i ried. Neither- Johnny nor Polly huck hud any idea of doing such a, th ug as that. Polly Was digging a long hall out , to the edge of the Old Briar-patch She w.uked hard and fast. Just in-Bide in-Bide tho edge of the Briar-patch and I behind a little bubh she opened the entrance to that hull She made It i Just big enough for Johnny and herself her-self to puss through comfortably There was no yellow sand around It ! to show where It was All the sand was pushed back .;nd out of the en-' mkc In Ihe heart of the uhl Briar-patch. Briar-patch. The other entrance would be likely to be seen only by the sharpest eyes. Y'ct this was to be the main entrance. At last the work was all done No more -;and was thrown out at the entrance in the middle of the Briar-' patch. Johnny Chuck disappeared in- dc and though Peter sat around for, i lone lime he sme n.i r.t Johnny. I "T he Chuck family must be taking la res: down lns.de" muttered Pete, to himself. " should th'nk thev would want o My I wouldn't work j Hi.- way they work for anything In I the world' You know Peter Isn't 1 t all fond of work. By and by he grew tired of sitting around and hopped over through one of his private little paths lo the edge of the Old Briar-patch to get some sweet clover on the Green Meadov..- hen h poked his head outside he blinked his eyes very fast several times Then he hopped out and sat up to stare at Johnny Chuck and Polly I'hu-k and tho four little 'hurkr. eating sweet clover out there .Ts fast ns they could. Peter was as sure that they were down in'lde that house that he had the hardest kind " r K i.. u-....ke I, !;,,-,.; i . , . : i , . , . lnat real '.aw- what he did see You si 1 h" know nothing about that new ; doorway- At last Peter found his tongue HI. Johnny I'hjtk"' he cried How did you get out there?" ' .lust inside the ihIkc f tlie Briar ' patch and behind a little hush she Opened the entrance to thai hall Johnny looked up an grinned It a a secret." was all he said. Peter at once made up his mind that he would find nut that secret So he sat around and watched, buv by and by his stomach would no longer give him any peace and he decided that he might as well fill his stomach while he wetched Now that clover was very sweet and after Peter had eaten a few leaves he forgot everything else. He ale and ate as fast as lie could, and forgot all about keeping watch. Presently he looked ii r The Chucks had disappeared Peter looked everywhere for them but he couldn't find them. Finally he gave up and slowly hopped back nto the dear Old Briar-pat' h He w ent at once to the entrant e to that old house which the chucks had taken. There on the doorstep -a' .ii.Mimiy cum k onci; more reitr wa. i sadly puzzled. At last Johnny Chuck took pity on , Peter and told him that they had n secret doorway near the edge Of lie old Briar-patch, but would not tell him Just where. Of course Peter ; went to hunt for it. After a long search he found it Then he under- i stood At once he hurried to ten little Mrs. Peter "Tho Chucks have a secret doorway door-way at the edge of the Old Briar- ! patch." explained Peter. 'And I think they Hi-e going lo use lhat al- '.ogether. I don't believe they will .bother us In the Old Briar-patch. ' i And In this Peter was rlgnt So It was that pcaco and happiness came to the ij'.d Briar-patch. (Copyright. 1922, bv T W Burgess)' Next story 1 Whltefoot, the Wood Mouse is t'nhappy " |