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Show PETER RABBIT HAS A SHOCK By TBTORNTOX V. BURGESS Who In his work his pleasure finds, the drudgery of It nev.r minds Taddy the Beaver. Paddy the Beaver, an.l Mrs. Paddy wasted no time. Bcforo iliir pond should freeze over they must hav-enough hav-enough food In their food pile to I isi them until Spring .To they took onlv time enough foi need. 0 eieep '! .-. . irked hoth nisrht and dv Th' rut only the smaller trees. In the first piacr the.-..' ere easier to cut, and In the socond place there was no waste to them. The hark of the trunks was tender and fjood eating, whlr-h was more than could be- said of the barn Of the big trees. It made Peter actually tired to watch such steady labor How any one could work and work and work as thoso BeaVerfl did was more than Pet r could understand it wns stm harder to understand how Paddy and Mrs Paddy could get any pleasure from such hard work as they seemed to. You see Peter quite overlooked the fact that all winter long they would have nothing to do but rest, eat and sleep, whereas ho wou:d liae to spend much of his time In hunting for food and worrying for fear he would not get enough. Peter had spent much time watching watch-ing the Heavers cut down the trees and trim off the branches. It was I ry Interesting to watcli them drag the branches and logs over I he new dam, and down into the Laughing Brook cm the other side, and there swim awaj with them. One moonlight night Peter Pe-ter had watched Paddy drag a log o r that dam and disappear flown the Laughing Brook with it Mrs. Paddy was busy cutting another tree. Peter sat down In the Black Shadow just back of the dam to wait for ':ild to come back. He knew it would t ike Paddy some time to take that log down to the food pile In the old pond and return so he made himself comfortable com-fortable and Idly looked about him. Across on the other side of the Laughing Laugh-ing Bro6k was a big patch of moo;.-light. moo;.-light. Peter happened to look over av It. In tlx- middle of It lav what looked look-ed like a short, rather thick log. "That's funny.' muttered Peter to WQl Hf0', " That's funny," muttered Peter to lilni-clf. himself. "Yes, sir," that's funny I don't remember ocelng that logr over there before Of course. It must have been there and I ju.t didn't 3 e it. It Is queer how a fellovw will look at a thing and not ace It 1 suppose I must have been thinking of other things and Jur.t didn't notice it " Then Peter turned his head so that he could look down the Laughing brook to watch for the return of Paddy. When he glanced over at the moonlit place on the omer side apratn his heart stavo n little jump. It seemed to him that that Iok wasn't where m had last seen It. It seemed to him thaht It was a little nearer the Laughing Laugh-ing llrook than it had been before. "Of course it can't be," thought Peter "It Is just my Imagination. Just the same 1 can't get over the feci-lng feci-lng that that old log is nearer than it was when I last looked at It" Peter sat and stared and stared at that lop. For the time being h- quite forgot Paddy tho Beaver, Suddenly Peter received a shock. Yes, sir. he received a shock! That lop moved! lie was sure of H It moved forward just S ve bit. Peter's eyes almost popped pop-ped out of his head, and it seemed as If his heart was right up In his throat. (Copyright, 192J by T. W. liurgess) The next story: "Peter Thumps and Takes to His lb - Is." |