Show BEDTIME STORY FOR R CHILDREN by THORNTON W 13 BURGESS PETER DISCOVERS LINNET TT T take peter rabbit long to find the sweet singer whose happy trills brills had caught his attention ile he spied him sitting on the tiptop tip top of a fir tree in farmer browns yard peter dare go over there for already it was broad daylight but he have to for the sweet singer flew over in the old orchard and alighted just over peters head hello peter Is he be cried hello Iello I Lin linnet neti 1 cried peter 1 I was wondering who it could be who was singing like that I 1 ought to have 0 A 3 11 hello linnet cried peter known but you see it Is so long iong since ive heard you sing that I 1 remember your song im so glad you came here for im just dying to talk to somebody linnet the purple finch for this Is who it was laughed right out 1 I see youre still the same old peter said he 1 I suppose joure just as full of curiosity as ever and just as full of questions well here I 1 am so what bat shall we talk about you replied peter promptly lately ive found out so many surprising things about my feathered friends that I 1 want to know more im trying to get it straight in my head who Is related to who and ive found out some things which have begun to make me feel that I 1 know very little about my feathered neighbors its getting so that I 1 dont even dare guess who a persons relatives are if you please linnet what list family do you belong to linnet flew down a little nearer to peter look me over reter peter said he with twinkling eyes look me over and soe see it if you cant tell for yourself peter stared solemnly at linnet ne ile saw a bird of sparrow size whose entire body was a rose red brightest on the head darkest on the back and palest on the breast underneath he was whitish ills wings rings and tall were brownish the outer parts of the feathers edged with rose red ills bill was short and stout be before fore peter could reply mrs linnet appeared there so much as a touch of that beautiful rose red about her iier her grayish brown back was wag streaked with black her white breast and sides were spotted with streaks of brown had she not been with linnet peter certainly would have taken her for or a sparrow she looked so much like one that he ventured to say 1 I guess you belong to the sparrow family pretty close peter pretty close declared linnet we belong to the finch branch of the family which makes the sparrows own cousins but they never can mistake me there Is nobody else my size with a rose red coat like mine hello I 1 here comes cousin Ch leoree cl 0 T W B bunau ur sessi service secie sating nd and nd say the sign painter connected n the whole thing like this and you wanted him to paint it over so it would be right you would say to him paint this sign over and be sure to leave a space between silks and and and and and satins gatins sa tins dear sir mr wynn I 1 have just arrived in A america rica from my home in ireland I 1 a always M heard this was the land ot of opportunity in fact since childhood I 1 have heard you can pick gold up in the streets in this country when I 1 got off the boat yes ye berday I 1 saw something shining on the ground I 1 picked it up and sura auto enough it was a five dollar gold piece I 1 was going to put it in ray my pocket when I 1 noticed a man holding his hat bat in his hand and a sign on him read please help the blind so I 1 dropped the five fire dollar gold piece in his hat bal did I 1 do right truly yours 11 ME E GRANT answer you did the right thing giving the gold piece to the blind man because you can see to pick them up dear mr wynn I 1 live in the country and am twelve years of age sly my boy chum of the tha past four years play with me any more we had a fight ile he says say that my father went over to hla his fathers home and stole the gate from in front of his fathers house it if this Is true why his father say something to my father for taking his fathers gate truly yours IGO BAREFOOT answer the reason his father say anything to your father for taking his fathers gate la Is that ills his father Is afraid that your father might take offense a fence 0 the th associated ne service |