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Show r -re ; ; : PETS R KXBJUT BSSjPS TT Tni CHUCK FAMILY. Help another wrhrn you may, 1 on may uecd help yourself some day. Poter Rabbit. Johnny Chuck and Polly Chuck and the four lit tlo Chu ks were homeless That Is, thev had no home in which they dared stay. You see Redely Fox had dug open their house on the edge of the dear Old Briar-patch and they, simply didn't daro to go back to It. I They had escaped Into the heart of! the dear Old Briar-patch by means of a secret backdoor which not even Peter Rabbit had known about. When Peter asked Johnny Chuck what be would do now Johnny had , gravely replied that he didn t know. "1 suppose." said he, "we will have to! jdlg a new home. There Is nothing else ' we can do." ' "Yes tbi re is," said Peter. "What?" demanded Johnny Chuck ' "You can live In on old house that I know of where Poddy Fox can not Kct at you and where the babies will I SB ii' oi '.iiy soir. Johnny looked nt Peter as If he wore not quite certain whether or not I Peter meant just what he said. Then he sat up and looked all around through the dear Old Briar-patch. He couldn't see far because the bushes jand the brambles were too thick. "Where Is thnt old house0" eh demanded. de-manded. "follow me and T'll show you." replied Peter, and off he started along one of his private little paths. Johnny f'huek started after him. but Johnny was stout and he didn't find It at all easy to follow Peter. That private little path through the bram-hles bram-hles was just big enough for Peter, and not quite wide enough for Johnnv. But he managed to get through after a while and found Peter wailing for him In a little epen space in the very middle of the dear Old Briar-patch, j "There:" said Peter. I Johnny looked where Peter was I pointing and there sure enough was the entrance to an old house It was a sorry looking old house. The doorway, was half choked up with leaves an! rubbish. It didn't look as if anyone, had used It for ever and ever so long ' "Isn't that a splendid house?" cried Peter- Johnny Chuck pretended not to I hear him. Johnny was too honest to say It was when It wasn't, and he was too polite to hurt Peter's feelings. So Johnny pretended not to hear Peter's question and asked a question himself. ' Did you make this house, Peter?," he Inquired Peter shook his head "No " said he. "Digging a house like this one would be too much work. This one' was here when I first came to live ln tho deur Old Briar-patch. Mrs Peter and I use p once in a while ln bnel weather It Is readly a very good SEP" C HAw I suppose," snld he. we will have to dig a nen home" bt because it was dug by one of your H r, 1SL...1. 1 1. - j u-iu roise.i and doubtful. "May be It was. H Peter- May be it was." said he. "but B 1 ah't imagine a member of my H j family making a home ln the middle H I of a big briar-patch " "But there wasn't any Briar-patch H I " declared Peter. "I've been told H that this house was dug by your J great-great-grandfather, and the H iX-patch prw up around It after 1 he left. You and Polly and the babies B are welcome to this old house for as loir.: as you need it. it son of belong- HBVJ in your fami'y you see " HHa "Thank you." replied Johnny Chr,c, I and then he whistled for Polly Chuck 1 to come over there. HHl (Copyright, 1022, by T W. Burgcas) I The next story "Johnny and Polly 1 Chuck Oo to Work." HjaH 00 ! r'f)A -ra ii'ABjjwJ j Plans have been completed for the lecriflcatiou of the railways of Java. |