Show CHILDRENS H I 1 L D R E N is C by STORY THORNTON W 13 BURGESS JUMPING FOR LIFE W A HAT a person can do well he almost always enjoys doing nim ble heels beels own cousin to danny meadow mouse la Is the very best jumper on the green meadows so it Is quite fla natural tural that he should e enjoy jumping lie he jumped and he jumped and he be jumped tor far peter rabbits benefit peter stole out from the dear old brier patch and sat up in the moonlight that he might watch nimble heels beels better such jumping peter had neer seen before and both he be and Nimble heels became so interested that they quite forgot that it Is neer safe to play on the green meadows unless za a sharp watch to Is kept tor for danger suddenly a shadow swept over peter there a sound keen as are peters long ears he heard nothing luckily for him he was sitting absolutely still at the time had he moed the least tiny bit the end of peter would have been right then and there for that shadow was booty the ova Nimble heels wa so intent on his jumping that he be see that shad kv wa A it fal 1 fill 4 1 aie 11 mv booty struck with his great curved claws but he M was as too slow ow low at all until ile he shot up into the air above the tops of the grasses almost under booty it Is a question which was the most surprised nim ble heels or holly swiftly but without a sound hoot turned in the air and Nimble beels had no more than disappeared in the grass than booty was hovering right over it his bis great eyes piercing donn fiercely for a glimpse of tile the little mouse he be knew must be hiding among the grass stems steins right beneath him peter sat quite still with horror which was perhaps just as well for peter could it be that the little friend with whom he had become so well acquainted was going to be snatched away la in the cruel claws of 0 booty right before his very eyes could it bea be suddenly screamed and at the sound out from the grass shot Nimble beels in the longest jump peter had yet seen him blin make booty struck with his great curved claws but he gifts as too slow As before hardly had Nimble heels landed in the grass than froony booty was vas hovering right over the i cry spot Nimble heels did not wait for him to scream but was in the air in another long jump almost as soon as he reached the ground this time he jumped to the side instead of in the direction be had jumped before probably Iro bably it was this that saved his life booty was not ready for him in that direction and so he missed him again then began the most exciting game peter had ever seen at least it seemed like a game it of course because both Nimble heels and booty were very much in earnest the pretty little cousin of danny meadow mouse to save his life and booty to get a good dinner such jump jumping ingi it made peter rabbit ashamed to think that he ever had bragged about his own jumping this way that way the other way by darted Nimble heels over the tops of the grasses and wheeling and turning on noiseless wings booty the owl followed always just a wee second too late as he struck savagely with his great cruel looking claws peter wanted to shout to nimble heels 1 and tell him to make for or the dear old brier patch but even if lie he could have he have dared for he knew only too well that booty think twice of a little jumping mouse it if he had a chance for a rabbit dinner liner so there was nothing for peter to do but to sit there and hope and hope with all his might that Nimble heels would escape and that booty would get far enough away to give him peter a chance to bolt tor for the safety of his home it seemed to peter that Nimble heels was making shorter jumps was lie he getting too fired to jump it if so the end would come soon peter ieter held his big breath 6 T W burgam Burg eaf service |