Evening star., 1915-09-18


HAD KNOCKED THE TOP OFF OF
ONE OF THOSE BOXES AND WAS
| WHINING AND GRUNTING."
can move so silently is more than can
understand. l didn't hear sound. and
| then all of a sudden there he was sit
| ting up right in front of me. He sat
there until the last light had winked
out in Farmer Browns house and then
| he went from tree to tree SHINING anu
shifting at each. 1 knew what he was
after He had got it into his head that
| Busy Bee and her sisters had stored
| their honey somewhere in the Old
Orchard, and he was looking for it. You
| know, my dear. that there is nothing
Buster likes so we'll as honey.
Il followed him. taking care that he
shouldn't know it. He didn't find any
| thing in the Old Orchard, and when he
reached the edge of 1t nearest Farmer
Browns house he stopped and studied
1t a while. 1 guess he never had been
so near it before. 1t was as still as
still could be up there, so by and BY
he went across into Farmer Browns
door yard to some queer boxes standing
on the far side Then I heard him give
happy sounding little srunt, and the
first thing I knew he had knocked the
top off of one of those boxes and was
| whining and grunting and gobbling up
something as fast as he could. and at
the same time slapping and clawing at
his head and nose. 1 couldn't guess
what it all meant, but later l found
out that Busy Bee and her sisters had
stored their honey in those boxes. and
of course he was slappins at them be-
cause they were singing him.
"All of a sudden Bowser the Hound
rushed out of the house with roar
of his great voice. ! guess he didn't
know who it was out there, and he had
almost reached Buster Bear before he
found out. Then he stopped SO short
that he almost turned SomerSault. put
his tail between his legs and started
back for the house twice as fast as he
had come out the most scared dog you
ever saw. He knocked over Farmer
Browns Boy in the doorway. l guess
he had come to see what was gong on.
Farmer Browns Boy yelled. and at
that yell you just ought 10 have seen
Buster Bear. He was just as badly
scared as Bowser the Hound. and he
was in such "a hurry to get away that
he didn't look to see where he was go.
ing He Knocked over three more OF
those boxes and bumped into a tree so
hard that it shook down lot of pears.
Some of them hit him. and this scared
him still more. He tried to run through
a wire fence. Guess he didn 'see ii at
all 1t made him squeal when he hit
it. and he broke off one of the posts.
Then he got headed in the right direc-
ton, and the last l saw of him he was
running through the Old Orchard for the
Green Forest as if he never meant to
stop running. / guess he's running yet.
And the funny part is there was moth
ing to run from. Oh, deary me, Oh.
deary me. Twas just funny could
be, / wouldn't have missed it for any
thing"
Perhaps it was said Mrs Peter.
but the place for you, Peter Rabbit.
is at home in the dear Old Brer Patch.
Some time you'll get into trouble if you
go poking about where you have no
business For my part I'm glad that
a
Bowser the Hound got such a scare. and
that Farmer Browns Boy was upset.
and I wish that you had had such
fright that you never again would leave
the dear Old Brer Patch
But I didn't" replied Peter with
chuckle