Show BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN by THORNTON W BURGESS PETER RABBIT NEARLY FALLS INTO THE PIT F COURSE peter rabbit had no 0 OP business in farmer browns garden ile he knew it he knew that the delicious plants growing groning there were not meant for him for a long long time after he lind had been made so eo III by gating cabbage leaves on which poison had bad been put to kill bugs he had kept away from that tempting garden in tact fact for some time he wanted to go near it but time changes ones feelings just as it changes everything else it was so with peter it wits was so ton ions since he had been so III that he had halt half forgotten how ter bibly he be had felt so sometimes when he passed that garden on his way to the old orchard he would pause and stare at it longingly ne be would sit up ans and work his little nose and the delicious odors which tickled it would make his mouth water so that sometimes he would hae to run its ills very hardest to keep from yielding to the temptation to visit that garden and try some of those plants growing there As time went on he got in the habit of sitting a little longer each night to stare through the fence into the garden and to sniff the delicious smells each night it was a little harder to go on the longer he be looked and the more he smelled the less danger there seemed until tie he had eaten that hat poison which been meant for him at all no harm had ever come to him in that garden 1 ir I know enough now thought peter not to eat pol poisoned leaves it Is safe perfectly safe for ma me to go there I 1 eat a thing I 1 lust just want to see what it Is like over there and if things have changed much since I 1 was there fie peter alel be whispered a small voice inside you know very well that you are safer outside that garden you know you resist stuffing yourself with the things growing there 1 I could tool protested peter 1 I could go all through that garden and not taste a single thing you do anything of the kind you know you better keep out of temptation it if I 1 were you I 1 I 1 woul int ever come so near the garden whispered the small voice peter seoN scowled led lie he like ille that small voice it was forever telling him not to do things that he be very much vi wanted ranted to do im going over there just once so therell there declared peter it if you go once and nothing hap pens go every night and then something may happen keep away warned the little voice but peter tried not to hear bear that small voice lie hopped a few steps nearer the fence on the edge of the garden he looked and listened it was very very quiet over in there peter hopped a few steps near nearer 1 er ill just stick my head inside and see how it looks said lie he to bim himself then ill go on to the old orchard so peter poked his head through an opening in the fence my how good it did smell in therel there 1 peters little nose babbled faster than ever cabbages Cubbage si 1 muttered peter and beets I 1 turnips as I 1 livel live I 1 oh my goodness I 1 certainly smell carrots carrot sl 1 peter really know just ft hen bed his body did follow his head through that opening in the fence but it did for here he was right in the middle of farmer browns garden sly my how things had grown since he had been there ile he lio hopped aped this xay nay and he hopped that w way n y he it took a 8 ril nip p here and a bite there the little voice in n side ade was utis still now it had given up so presently peter came to the far corner where farmer browns boy had dug that deep pit peter stared atthe great pile arid on one side he did see the greathel gr great eathol j hole all lie he S saw aw was the pile of sand inow now what can that be tor for thought peter and went a little nearer at firstie firs the was suspicious of it aft after er a little he made anade up his mind that it was vias perfectly harmless it was nothing but a pile of sand he would climb up to the top it would be a splenda place fron from which to look all over the garden up peter scrambled and sat down on the very top then for the first time thue lie he saw the black pit below him he stared down into lt it wondering won derng what wha it could be for Sudden suddenly lythe the sand un der him began to slide hastily peter turned to get hack back the sand slid faster and peter felt elt himself slipping down down toward that black pit with all his might he scrambled up for he was right on the very edge of that pit it was a narrow escape a very ivery narrow escape 0 1333 1933 by T W burkma burgess service |