Show af little stories lk n JL ries or bedtime Z ya thorndon Thorn fon W v t peter rabbit every day tries some kindly word to say GOOD WORD FOR GLUTTON THAT T Is where peter rabbit Is not only nice but smart as well und kind words always make friends and never make enemies and tile the wore friends one has the better gut but it with mth any such selfish purpose that peter does it peter says kind things because he thinks kind things ti lings now as he be sat on the edge of tile the pond of paddy the beaver deep in the green forest and listened to the news from the great woods j 4 Y buster turned and stared at peter very hard in the far north as told by honker the goose who had just stopped over for the night peter lashear was hearing a for the first time of glutton the wolverine buster bear and prickly porky and paddy the beaver and honker the goose knew him well and they knew no good of him buster had said that everybody hated glutton that he was so selfish that when ile be found more food than he be could eat he spoiled what was left so that no one else should have any that lie he was waa so smart in a bad way that no one could hide anything from him and that lie he was so strong and savage that most of the people who lived in the great woods were afraid of him in fact buster had said that there was no good in him then maker the goose had told how he be had watched glutton follow a trapper and find and pull up all the traps no matter how flow cunningly they were hidden so that no DO one would be caught in them at the same time stealing all the food which the trapper had put out as bait to lead little fur coated people into the traps lie he told how glutton had broken into the little log house of the tripper trapper while the latter was away and had stolen or ruined all his supplies so that the tripper trapper had been forced to go away to got get more of course while ile he was away the little people in fur had nothing to fear from traps peter had listened with ears ear wide open when bonker had bad finished peter spoke did I 1 understand you to say that glutton is all bid bad and that every one e hates h him nut lie he asked you certainly did growled bus ter bear in his deep grumbly rum bly voice olce lie ile a friend in the lie world thais tunny funny replied peter pulling his whiskers thoughtfully the hie matter with the peo pie of tile the great woods nothings the matter with us grow groiN led buster the matter mailer Is all with glutton oil oh I 1 dont know returned peter it may be you dont owe glutton anything buster busier but it seems to me that some others up there in the great woods owe him a great deal buster turned and stared at peter very hard peter said he slowly you are the first one I 1 e ever r knew who could find a good w word r to say for that ugly robber of honest bonest folks perhaps no one has ever tried to find a good tiling thing to say retorted peter 1 I never have found anyone jet who do some good tor for others once in a while even reddy fox now who are you people who live in the great woods most afraid oh of hunters and trappers replied buster promptly then it seems to me that anyone who can and does get the best of them and actually drives one of them away is doing something good very good indeed for tile rest or of you glutton may be a robber and may kill the smaller people when lie he can catch them but when he pulls up all the traps so well bidden that no one else can find them and leaves them in plain sight so that no one will get caught it seems to me that lie he has done a splendid thing for his bis neighbors neighbor r S and that they have no right to say that he Is all bad just think of how many lives might have been lost in those dreadful traps but for him so grumbled buster bear chang liis his head thoughtfully lit 1 I never dever thought of khz that Z E by J 0 lloyal sort Sorl ice ce |