The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-12-19
|. Little Stories for Bedtime
By THORNTON ". HURGEsA
(Copyright 1917. by ]. q. Iloyd.)
Peter Rabbit Listens to the Wrong
Voice.

Peter Rabbit didn't play fair. No.
sir. Peter didn't play fair. People
who have too much curiosity about
other peoples affairs seldom do play
fair. He didn't mean to. be unfair.
S 81 ,n ny; no! Peter d'dn,t mean to
Red squirrel sitting on the old stone.
wall on the edge Of Farmer Browns
Old Orchard he intended to 60
straight home to the dear Old Bfjar
Patch: He was 2 little disappointed.
was Peter. that Chatterer hadn't told
Not that It really naattered: he Just
wanted to know. that was all. With
every jump away from the old. stone.
wall that desire to know just where
Chatterer's new house was seemed to
grow. Peter stopped ana looked back.
He couldn't Peg chettersr now be-
souldn't sea chAtterer,. Why of course
Chatterer couldn't $50 him.
Peter sat down and began to pull
his whiskers in = way he has when no
Is trying to decide something. It
seemed 40 Il two little voices were
Quarreling inside him. Go aloue
home like the good fellow you are,
INC mind your own business" said
watch chattsrer and so ind out Just
where his new house is; he'll never
know anything about It. and thereIl
be no harm DONE" said the other little
voice. 1t was louder than the first
voice and Peter liked the sound Of it.
II believe I WILL" said he. and
without waiting to hear what the first
little. voice would say to that he turn
ed about and very carefully and soft
" tiptoed back to the old stoneWall.
Right near 1t was a thick little bush.
1t seemed to Peter that 1t must have
grown there Just to give him a hiding
place. He crawled under 1t and lay
stonewall in both directions. Chat.
left him. He was looking in the d.
rection that Peter had gone when he
mad said good.by. Peter chuckled to
himself. He's waiting to make sure
! have gone before he goes to that
You ought to be ashamed Of your
self, Peter Rabbits: this is none OF
your business. said that little small
voice down inside.
you're not doing q bit of harm.
Chatterer has no business to try to
Keep EEL his new house q secret anyway"
said the other little voice inside. And
because Of his dreadful curiosity Peter
liked the sound OF that little voice
best and listened to It, and after a
while the first little voice grew dis
couraged and stopped.
Chatterer sat right where he was
for what seemed to Peter q very long
time. But by, and by he gave a, sud-
ran swiftly along the old wall a little
way. Then with a hasty look around
he disappeared in a hole. A minute
later he popped his head out for a
nasty look around and then disap-
peared again. He did this two or
three times as IL he was anxious.
Peter chuckled to himself. That's
his new house right there" said he
to himself, and now that I know
where 1t is I think I'll hurry along
He was Just gettins ready to start
when Chatterer popped out Of his
hole and sat upon a big stone. He
was talking out loud and Peter lis
tened. Then his long ears began to
ourI, for this is what he heard:
I'm glad that Peters not a spy,
For spies are hateful a. can be.
It's dreadful how ON people try
Affairs Of other folks to see."
Chatterer whisked out Of sight and
Peter hurried to get away His ears
suit burned and. somehow he. didn't
reel so ttckled over the thought that
ne had discovered C~hatterer's secret
as ne had thought he would. And over
IN the mole In the old stonewall Chat
terer .tne.sRed SQUIRREL was laughing
as II mere was some great joke. There
6:t. You see. he hadn't discovered
Chatterer's new house at all,
Next Story: How Chatterer Had
Fooled Peter Rabbit.