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BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN by THORNTON W BURGESS PETER RABBIT GROWS IMPATIENT eclezr VERY evening that the way seemed clear and safe peter rabbit scum across from the dear old brier ratch to the smiling pool to see no now jerry SIus krat was getting on oil witt with the building of his bis new house bouse peters curiosity vas as impatient Impat lent curiosity Is apt to be impatient lie ile wanted to tee see the walls of that new house rise out of the water but night arter after night he ha was disappointed there a thing abbie water to show that jerry was vias building a house there there was just the muddy water and occasionally the head of jerry as he ao A alt r lie A lot you know about it peter said he came ame up for a breath of fresh air to show that something was going on there after a few nights of this sort of thing peter began to be doubtful ue began to doubt it if jerry was really building a house at all lie ile said as much to grandfather frog it seems to me said he that there ought to become sl signs ns of that house it if there Is ever going to be one im beginning to think that it was all a bluff on oil jerry ilus Alus krats part I 1 dont believe tie he Is building a house at all lie ile has been working long enough to have built two houses it teems seems to me yet there a thing to show for it grandfather frog rolled his great eyes up at peter ieter sitting on the bank and stretched his big mouth in the broadest of grins perhaps said lie softly you think you could build that house better and faster than U jerry can peter looked a wee bit foolish just a wee bit foolish ile he never had built a house in his life and lie he knew that grandfather frog knew it just the tame same I 1 think lie Is terribly slow about jt lie he protested it if it takes him as long as all this just to get the foundations laid it will take him the rest of the year to finish the job and cold weather vien ther will come before then grandfather frog chuckled A lot you know about it peter said he A lot you know about it I 1 suppose you think that the biggest part of till nil the work on that house la Is what will have to be done abone water let me tell you something peter the part of that house which you will pee nee when it Is finished Is the easiest part jerry has to do you ought to learn to dive die beier and then you would see and learn a lot you dont know now and neer hlll know peter looked wistfully ana longingly down into the smiling pool 1 I nish I 1 could said he 1 I certainly wish I 1 could when lie noted how muddy the water was lie he suddenly changed chan ed his mind 1 I guess im just as well it satisfied as not said he ill take your word for it that there are interesting things town down there under water I 1 know this and if 1 I 1 could dhe I 1 never in the world would open my eyes in any such muddy water as that grandfather frog laughed you know he mind muddy water at all in fact when he be goes to the bottom of the shining pool he goes right down into the mud itself itsek it seemed funny to him that anyone should mind muddy water ile he rather liked it himself because in it he be could disappear so easily peter looked over to where the mud was being stirred up by jerry SIus krat at work down below just the same said peter 1 I think jerry Is a long iong time building hla his house 0 1933 by T W burgess service lc |
