Arizona republican., 1921-04-23
Little Stories For Bedtime
 THORNTON w BURGESS
PETER RABBIT
BY THORNTON W. sURcES

get even with you, Peter Rab-
 Il get even with you!" Sam
 Jay fairly hoped up and down on
 branch of the big pine. he was so lsry- Peter just thrust his tongue 70 one cheek in the sauciest way "a tnen laughed at Sammy Jay. You
 Peter had overheard Sammy Jay
 ring himself, and had called him -L ana worse than that-a thief.
 ". course 1t is true. as every one tue Green Forest and on the Green sRoows knows, that Sammy Jay is tnaef But no one likes to be told @i he is thief, even if he is. ihiny Jay least of all. Like a great
 ny other people who do wrong.
 ihS Jay likes to pretend that he
 very Tine gentleman and he ants other people to think so. too.
 ne takes great care of his hand ne hlue coat and struts around a cal deal when he thinks other folks looking at him. So Sammy Jay 1cied and studied how he could get en with Peter Rabbit He called ter names whenever he saw him. 70 Peter didn't mind that in the sSt- Tor he could call names back am Besides, names never hurt. 1d it is very foolish to call them. sammy Jay studied and studied " he could get even with Peter 4eolt in some other way. Then one " as he sat in the big pine tree Aoying. sammy heard a voice that we him an idea It was the voice
 Rectail the Hawk, who, you know, own cousin to old Whitehall and to 9aghleg- Now. Sammy Jay can rearn so exactly like Redtail the HNk that 411l soices apart. When he heard that rean sammy Jay chuckled out loud. thought of a plan to get even ith Peter Rabbit.
 Every day after that Sammy Jay 2 ant peeking and prying through the neen Forest and around the edge of e Green Meadows without making sound. just watching for Peter Rab- c The snow was almost all gone d that is how it happened that Adtatl had come back from the nth. where he had spent the winter ammy Jay felt quite sure that Peter 1nt know that Redtail was back L He hoped he didn't. anyway.
 Early one morning Sammy Jay sat dden on the edge of the Green ,rest. watching the old brier patch here Peter Rabbit lives. He saw ter come out of one of his private tr1~-AS oAA4 Sll up very L. TT long time Peter sat looking i> way and looking that way over Green Meadows. Whe he was re that Reddy and Granny Fox ere nowhere about and that Rough and Whitehall were nowhere in ght Peter kicked up his heels and ampered out on to the Green Mead @vs. away from the Dear Old Brier satch- to see if there were any sings spring. sammy waited until Peter had ached the big hickory tree over by Ae Shilling Pool then very silently lmmy Jay flew over to the big nick Fsy tree Peter was so busy looking Jerry Muskrat that he didn't see rmy Jay at all. Suddenly, right Ser Peters head sounded a fierce Till scream. Peter knew that voice least he thought he did. He didn't Eep to look. He had learned long z Q that it is best to run first and .ok afterward. So now he started ' the Dear Old Brier Patch as fast . his long legs would take him, his |. art in his mouth.
 A Again that fierce scream sounded Int over him. Peter ran faster than CT. and as he ran he lodged this ir and lodged that way Every !. 'ond he expected to feel the sharp TVS Of Redtail the Hawk. My. such . npS as Peter did take, It seemed . him that he never would reach the . ar old Brier Patch. But he did
 just as soon as he was safely side he turned around osee what S become of Redtail And what do