The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-03-25
nv THORNTON w. BURGESS.

IL often happens when we know
The troubles that our friends pas
lour own seem very small indeed;
Youth always and that this - true
MY. you must have felt glad wheI
you reached your winter home." ex
claimed Peter Rabbit when Mrs
| Quack finished the account OF hei
long, terrible journey from her sum
mer home in the far Northlsnd &c
her winter home in the far South
land.
Il did" replied Mrs. Quack. "but
all the time | couidnt forget those
10 whom terrible things had happen
ed on the way down, and then. too.
kept dresding the long Journey
back"
Il don't see why you didn't stay
right there. would have" said
Peter. nodding mis- head with an air
CT great wisdom.
Not il You were me. retorted
AIRS. Quack I'm the nrst place il
isn't a proper place in which TO bring
I'D young ducks and make them
strong and healthy In the second
place there are more dangers down
there for young ducks than up IN
the far NoIthland. in the third place
there isn't rOom for ali the ducks TO
nest properly And lastly. there Is
great lnlcins for ON real home
which cd Mother Nature has put
in our hearts. and which just makes
We 60 'Ne couldn't be happy II We
d.unt."
lis thc journey hack as bad - tee
jocrrey CCwn!" asker Peter
"Wcrsc very much worse. re-
piled Nj. CRACK. sadly You can
see TO- yourself just bcw bal u Is,
for here am all a.one. To p fhed
Mrs. Quack's eyes. 1T is almost TOO
terrible to talk about" she continued
after a minute you see for one
thing food isn't az plentiful a. II u
in the fall. anG we just nave 10 go
wherever IL Is Those tvo-legged
creatures called men know where
those feeling grounds are Just as
well as we do. and they hide there
with their terrible guns just as they
did when We were coming south.
But Il IL much worse now. very
much worse. You see when We were
going the other way il We found
fthem At one place We would 20 on
| TO another, but when We are gong
north we cannot always do that
We cannot 20 any faster than Jacs
Frost does. Sometimes we are driv'
en- out of a place by the bang. bang
OF the terrible guns and go on only
Ito find that We have caught UP with
lack Frost and that the ponds and
the rivers are still covered with ice
Then there is nothing TO DO but to
turn back 10 where those terrible
guns are waiting for us. We just
have 10 do 1t.
MIR. Quock stopped and snudder
ed. 1T seems TO me ! have heare
nothing but the bang, bang OF thos'
terrible guns ever since We star'
ed" said she. Il haven't had
good square meal for days and days
nor a good rest. That is VIVA
makes me so dreadfully nervous
Sometimes when we had been driy
en- from place 10 place until w
had caught up with Jack Frost there
would be nothing but ice, exceptln'
| small places In a river wnere tn'
| water runs too swiftly TO freeze
| We would just have to drop into on4
| of these 10 rest a little because We
had flown so far that our wings
| ached so that IL seemed as II the!
| would drop on. Then just ar vs.
| would think We were safe Tor
| little while there would come tnt
bang OF a terrible gun. and ther
/ We would have 10 NY again as Ions
as we could and then come bach
to the same place because there was
no other place where We could go
Then We would have to do II al
over again until night came. some
times think that those men viii
terrible guns must hate us and wan
TO kill everyone OF US. IL they
didn't they would have a little bi