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Show BY THORNTON W BURGESS. j Good nd lce is always needed I But, alas! Is seldom heeded. Peter. Rabbit 1 "Il'ive vou ever spent a winter in the north before. Welcome Robin '" , asked Peter Rabbit. I Welcome looked sadly out over the rpdar swamp In which Peter Rabbit j had found him and shook his head. "Of course not." said he. "1 have I told you why I am staying this year, j Had It not been for that accident I wouldn't have thought of such a thing." "Did -lid Mrs. Robin stay With I you7" ventured Peter. I "I should hope not!" replied We!- corno. "Do you suppose 1 would allow al-low her to stay up hero In the cold i Just because I must? She did stay j until I made her go. She was with I the last of our relatives to start for I the Sunny South " j Peter became very thoughtful. sat scratching a lone ear with a Ion' I hlndfoot. He scratched and scratched und scratched and scratched. "Is there something the matter with that ear of yours?" Welcome at last asked. Peter chuckled. "No. Welcono ," Haul he. "That ear is unite ull ri!:" I am thinking, that's all." "I hae heard of such n thing, but until now I didn't know how it was done." retorted Welcome. Then both I laughed. "Yes." said Peter. "1 wa-s thinking. I was thinking of you." "How nice!" chirped Welcome I Ropln. Peter paid no attention to the ln- tcrruptlon. He went rlpht on as If I Welcome Robin h.idn't spoken. 'I "Did lii Mr- Robin -t. with on I " i-utiirii Peter was thinking." said he. "that as you have never spent tho winter up here I you may not Know some things you j ought to know I am going t give I you some advice. Of course, you can I do aa you please about actinic on it, md of course you will What you do isn't any business of mine, and 1 ' don't want vou to think. Welcome ! Robin, that 1 think It is. You see. it lis just this way: If anything dreadful . should happen to you because of I something which you didn't know about which I might have told you 1 never would be ablo.lo forgive myself." my-self." Welcome Robin flew down a lltt'o nearer to Peter. "Peter." said ho. "I will be very grateful for any advice, jrou can clve me." ! Peter looked pleased. "In tho first place, said he. I advise you to keep I out of sight as much as possible and I stick closely to this old swamp it ; will In easy for you to keep hidden here and you will find it the warmest I place around. Also, when the fierce winter storms come you will bo better protoctod here than anywhere else, j Foil know how to wxtch out for your enemies in summer, but in winter It 1 Is a very different matter. Any time DOW Terror the dosha wk may appear, und ho Is a terror, and no mistake. Whan tho weather gts very had up In the Par North Whitoy the Snowy Owl Is likely to come down this way and ho hunts by day as well as bv Dlght Then his big cousin. Hooty the Horned Owl. Is more to be f,r I In winter than In summer, for food Is scarce and ho Is sure to be hungry all the time. If yxn should go out on the edge, of the Green Meadows I Uoughleff the Hawk. who has e'-ready e'-ready come down from the Far North, might eatoh you. So far as possible j 'keep II .i secret that you aro here In the cedar swamp. I guc6S that's all " "Thank you," replied Welcomu I Robin. "I'll remember." (Copyright. IPC'.', hy T W. B : . m The noxt story: "The Happiest i N-w Year." |