Show al 9 by thornton nW W burgess THE NEWS REACHES PETER RABBIT TT T often that peter rabbit know ow what hat is going on in the green forest and on the green meadows but once in a great while it happens that was the case the time that everybody was looking for the storehouse of busy bee so as to make a friend ot of buster bear who is very fond of honey it happens that peter had been staying very close to the dear old briar patch in the daytime visiting the green forest only at night now ot of course no one looked tor for the storehouse of busy bee at night and so peter know anything about it for some time when he did hear about it he was very much j 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 he was filled with a great wish that ile he too might light hunt for the honey put out because he had not known about it before peter is one of those people who want to be the first to know what is going on now peter was quite as much afraid of buster bear as were any of his friends in tact fact it was because of buster that he had given up going to the green forest as much as he used to or would have liked to so when he heard that everyone was looking tor for honey for buster bear he was filled with a great wish that he too might hunt tor for the honey ile he might he just might find it and if he did why he and buster bear would be friends as long as they lived and that would be perfectly splendid the more he thought about it as he be sat in the dear old briar patch the more splendid it seemed and he belgan 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 cither and so quite see how he had the least chance in the world to find the honey which would make buster bear his friend ile he sat in the dear old briar patch and thought and thought jimmy skunk came along and noticed that peter was studying over something hello he exclaimed got something on your mind peter rabbit now peter like to admit that he wished he be could find the honey of busy bee so he pretended not to hear jimmys question hello jimmy skunk he exclaimed as it he had just discovered jimmys presence how are you 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 it 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 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 all about busy bee and her honey and he was anxious to go hunt him up so tor for once peter want to talk and after a little jimmy skunk went on his way to hunt tor for fat beetles T W sen ice |