Show little lories 0 L JL EK 9 q ft A e 1 thorndon Thorn fon W 35 MuT gess PETER RABBIT HUNTS FOR A FRIEND bumble bumble bumble bee somebody is seeking thee not lor for honey nor for or money but blit to have a word with the handsome mr bumble bee 1 ahat somebody was peter rabbit THAT I you see it was this way when jimmy skunk had said that if he wanted to find the storehouse of busy bee he waste his time and break his neck by looking for it but would ask some one who knew where it was to tell him he put an idea into peter rabbits head peter wanted to find t that hat storehouse of busy bee what for why to tell buster bear for buster had said that he wanted some honey two or three bright faced flowers whispered that bumble had been there and had just gone and peter like all the other little people who were afraid of buster wanted to find it for him so that he would bs be a friend jimmy skunk who afraid of buster and so care anything about finding that storehouse of busy bees had made fun of all those who were looking for it but he had given peter just the idea he wanted and he be could hardly wait for jimmy to go on about his business he was so anxious to try it of course said peter to himself if any one knows where busy bees storehouse is it will be her cousin bumble bee bumble is a pretty good friend of mine and perhaps he will tell me of course cours e I 1 wont teu tell him why I 1 want to know because if he knew that buster bear wanted to steal the honey he might not tell me ill just let him think that it is my natural curiosity so as soon as jimmy had gone on about his business peter started out to hunt for bumble ill be sure to find him where the brightest flowers are thought peter so away he went across the beautiful green meadows looking for the brightest flowers but there were so many of them it was hard work to tell which were the brightest peter sighed it looked as if it would be more of a task to find bumble than he thought it would be but it would be worth a whole lot of trouble to find out where that storehouse of honey was and so win buster bear for a friend and so peter hurried lippertz lippertz lip from one bright group of flowers to another it would have been hard enough if he had nothing to do but watch out for reddy and ghanny fox he had to watch out for old man coyote he had to wa watch tell out for members of the hawk family who were very fond of dining on rabbit so whenever peter had to cross an open place to get from one group of flowers to another he first had to sit up and look all over the green meadows to see that no danger was near and then all around in the sky to see that no danger was likely to come from there then when he had scampered across the open place he had to do it all over again before he dared look for bumble two or three times bright faced flowers whispered that bumble had been there and had just gone then peter hurried on more hopefully than ever but always he was just too late at last he grew discouraged cou raged and sat down to rest bumble is always around when he wanted and never around when he is wanted he grumbled a T W burgess Bur gesa service |