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Show : BEDTIME ST1W , Sg THORNTON W. BURGESS houses, it seems to me, yet there isn't a thing, that I can see, to show for it." Grandfather Frog rolled his great goggly eyes up at Peter sitting on the bank and stretched his big mouth in v the broadest of grins. "Perhaps," said he, softly, "you could build that house better and faster than Jerry can." Peter looked a wee bit foolish, just a wee bit foolish. He never had built a house in his life, and I ER RABBIT GROWS ., IMPATIENT f' fj evening tbat the way sitd clear and safe Peter tampered across from the a Brier Hatch to the Smil-, Smil-, (!to see how Jerry Muskrat J -.lag on with the building of ' bouse. Peter's curiosity was P ei furiosity is api to v iSenl Be wanted to see the if that new house rise out of K i:ef, but night after night he appointed. There wasn't a (Sort water to show that tokrat was building ' house Here was Just the muddy ( ,iJ occasionally the head of he knew that Grandfather Frog knew it "Just the same, I thipk he is terribly slow about it" he protested. pro-tested. "If It takes him as long as all this just to get the foundations laiJ it will take him the rest of the year to finish the job, and cold weather will be here long before f en." Grandfather Frog chuckled. "A lot you know about it Peter," said he. "A lot you know bout it 1 suppose you think that the biggest part of all the work on tbat house is what will have to be done above water. Let me tell you something Peter. The part of tbat house which you will see when it Is finished fin-ished is the easiest part Jerry has to do. ?ou ought to learn to dive, Peter, and then you would see and learn a lot you don't know now, and never will know." Peter looked wistfully and longingly long-ingly down into the Smiling Pool. "1 wish I could," said he. "I certainly ' you Know About It, Peter," Said He. 8 he came up for a breath of ; ill to show that something was I there. 1 "tew nights of this sort of ': Pete' began to be doubtful. ? to doubt if Jerry was j. taking a house at alL He i 1 much to Grandfather Frog. I wis to me," said he, "that f t "Slit to be some signs of that j; 11 there Is ever going to be one. lng to think that It was v "t on Jerry Muskrat's part t . , 11 believe he is building a 11 a'L He has been work-'! work-'! enough to have built two to'' ' wish I could." When he noted how muddy the water was he suddenly changed his mind. "I guess I'm just as well satisfied as not," said he. "I'll take your word for it that there are interesting things down there under water. I know this, that if I could dive 1 never in the world would open my eyes in any such muddy water as that." Grandfather Frog laughed. You know be doesn't mind muddy water wa-ter at all. In fact, when he goes to the bottom of the Smiling Pool he goes right down into the mud itself. It seemed funny to him that anyone any-one should mind muddy water. He rather liked it himself, because in it he could disappear so easily. Pete Pe-te looked over to where the mud was being stirred up by Jerry Musk-; Musk-; at at work down below. "Just the same," said Peter, "I think Jerry is a long time building his house." . 1933. by T. W. BurKess.-WNU Service. I " |