Show BOT anat AN jt halt r N dahll 1441 i 7 h i by nW ae he B burgess u rg V 0 s s att lt 1 1 r t THE NEWS REACHES PETER RABBIT ai ba often that peter rabbit rabb it IN lt joernt know what is going on in 22 2 green fore forest st and on the green IM idols but once in a great while k happens that was the case latime Lf time that everybody was look ifor for the storehouse of busy be bee e 4 as to make a friend of buster d skir mr who is very fond of honey that peter had been stay oil avery close to the dear old briar L ten in the daytime visiting the L ien en forest only at night now course no one looked for the 9 of busy bee at night and cad lpeter know anything about d 1 kyfor for some time when he did I 1 r about it he was very much of e ia talt 0 OX 6 bit I 1 awas filled with a great wish 11 hat at he be too might blight hunt tor for the 4 oney ey out because he had not known own ut t it before peter is one of Is ise e people who want to be the ill to know what is going on razo w peter was quite as much slid W d of buster bear as were any friis friends in fact it was be ase eliise of buster that he had given I 1 t going to the green forest as ich as he used to or would have tad M to so when he heard that Ll lie was looking for honey for ter ster bear he was filled with a at wish that he too might hunt I 1 the honey he might he just ht find it and if he did why r ind and I 1 buster bear would be friends ah A ong long as they lived and that would perfectly splendid the more he ight u lit about it as he sat in the eying old briar patch the more splendid it seemed and lie he began to wish that he could climb trees like chatterer the red squirrel and happy jack the gray squirrel or else that he could fly he thought flying would be even better but he do either and so quite see how he had the least chance in the world to find the honey which would make buster bear his friend he sat in the dear old briar patch and thought and thought jimmy skunk came along and noticed that peter was studying over something dellol Hel lol he exclaimed got something on your mind peter rabbit now peter like to admit that he wished he could fin find d the honey of busy bee so he pretended not to hear jimmys question hello jimmy skunk he exclaimed as if he had just discovered jimmys presence how are you im fine replied jimmy im glad to see that you gone crazy like everybody else what do you mean asked peter why everybody in the green forest is running around with their heads tipped back until they look as if they certainly would break their necks all looking for honey and to see them you would think that they expected it was going to drop right down on their noses I 1 never did see such foolishness and all just to try to please buster bear some day one of them will vill walk right into his clutches for you cant look up and watch where you are going at the same time if I 1 wanted to find that honey I 1 go about breaking my neck to do it no sir not much what would you do asked peter so eagerly that jimmy looked at him sharply id ask some one who knows or else id watch busy bee and find out where she goes to replied jimmy peter say anything more but he did a great deal of thinking and he did wish that jimmy skunk would hurry away you see he had thought of a plan he had thought of some one a friend of his who ought to know au all about busy bee and her honey and he was anxious anxious to go hunt him up so for once peter want to talk and after a little jimmy skunk went on his way to hunt for fat beetles Q T W burgess service |