Show thornton bur burgess ess U 1 1 f f hj s i PETER AND WINSOME BLUEBIRD GOSSIP 0 GOSSIP is to talk about other T TO people and what they are doing or what they have done or what they are going to do peter rabbit and winsome bluebird were gossiping in the dear old brier patch winsome sat in a little cherry tree and right under him sat peter winsome had just arrived from way down south to spread the glad news that mistress spring was on her way and would soon reach the green meadows the green forest and the smiling pool you see winsome is the herald of mistress spring and keeps just a little way ahead of her when the little meadow and forest people first see his beautiful blue coat or hear his soft sweet whistle they know that mistress spring is surely on the way and not very far behind and then ra M to t 0 46 C 14 I 1 so he sat and rested and while ile he rested he gossiped with peter rabbit great joy fills their hearts first comes gentle sister south wind to prepare the way then winsome bluebird and after him beautiful mistress spring peter rabbit was brimful of curiosity just as he always is you see it was a long time since he had last seen winsome bluebird and all the other birds who had gone to the faraway south when the leaves began to drop in the fall and of course he wanted to know all about his old friends and neighbors how they were what they had been doing and when they were coming back and winsome wanted to know au all about how pe peter ter and reddy fox and all the other little people who gone to the beautiful south had spent the winter so there was a great deal to talk about yes indeed there was a great deal to talk about winsome felt that he ought to be flying about ove over r the green meadows and the green forest where other little people could see him and hear him and so know that he had arrived but he had traveled a very very great distance and he was tired and so he sat and rested and while he rested he gossiped with peter rabbit Is ol 01 01 mintah buzzard on his way here asked peter eagerly not yet replied winsome he wont start until after he is is sure that mistress spring has got here peter looked a little disappointed tor for there is nothing that he enjoys more than to watch mintah buzzard sail around and around way way up in the blue blue sky he is rather fond of 01 mintah buzzard is peter rabbit for big as he is mis tah buzzard never offers to hurt any of the very little people not even little danny meadow mouse why he starting right away he asked well you see replied winsome mintah buzzard like the cold but it cold bowl now interrupted peter why this cold at all you ought to have been here when it really was cold when the smiling pool and the laughing brook were covered with ice ice and the green meadows and the green forest were all white with snow and poor mrs grouse was a prisoner e r under the hard icy crust then it was colda why this cold at all winsome bluebird ruffled up his feathers just a little it was almost like a shiver this is cold enough for me said he tell me about poor mrs grouse peter did she get out you tell me about 01 mintah buzzard first and how he spends the winter and then ill tell you about poor mrs grouse replied peter all right said winsome ethere there a great deal to tell but ill do the best I 1 can E T W burgess service |