The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-10
BURGESS BED-
 TIME STORY
oLD MR. TRounLE L1Es IN wAIr
By THORNTON W. BURGEss

OLD MIR. TROUBLE LIES IN WAIT For every person, soon or late.
 Old Mir. Trouble lies in wait.
 Peter Rabbit.
 Peter Rabbit had forgotten all his good intentions Yes. sir he had for gotten them completely. You know that he hadn't intended to more than look at Farmer Browns garden. Then Old Mir. Temptation had proved too much for him and Peter had tasted cabbage leaf After that he had thought of nothing but filling that hig stomach. of his.
 Now he was in the lettuce bed and that lettuce tasted just as good ss the young cabbage plants. Peter just ate and ate and ate. By the time he i had filled his big stomach he had done lot of damage. As he sat resting he noticed for the fiSst time what a lot of harm he had done.
 T don't care,' said Peter to~him- self. 'I don't care. There Is plenty left in this garden for Farmer Brown and Farmer Browns Boy. l don't see why haven't just as much right to these things as they have. Anyway, they won't know who took them. I'll rest bit and then go back to the dear Old Briar- patch. Nobody but ASCOAhNA Nnp ANi6i NAhA fhho" that l have been here, and Boomer won't tell"
 So Peter rested for while and then began to explore the rest of the garden to find out what other good green things were growing there. He hopped this way and that way, nib- bling leaf here and leaf there. It was so quiet and peaceful in that garden that presently Peter grew careless. He did now and then sit up to look and listen, but that was all. He was needless of his steps. He felt so safe that he went whore he pleased without looking out for trouble, You know it was night and so Peter had no fear of being dls- covered by Farmer Brown or Farmer Browns Boy.
 Now Old MT. Trouble. the twin brother of Old MT. Temptation. WAS lying in wait. Wherever you find Old Mir Temptation you are sure to find Old MT. Trouble somewhere near. Peter should have known that. He would have. had he stopped to think The trouble was he didn't think. People who listen to Old Mir. Tempta- ton seldom do think.
 By and by Peter came to a straw berry bed. That bed had been covered with an old fishnet to keep birds from stealing the berries. Of course Peter knew nothing about this net. In the darkness he didn't see it. He wasn't interested in that strawberry bed. but he did want to get across 1t. He wasn't looking for old MT Trouble there. In fact he wasn't looking at all. He started to hop across that bed. At the first hop he felt some thing queer clinging about his feet Thaf ri uh nd ha a long jump. which took him right Into the middle of that strawberry bed.
 Old Mir. Trouble had Peter now. Yes, sir, Old MT. Trouble certainly did lave Peter. You see Peters feet slipped through the holes in the@let and became entangled. Of course Peter at once began to kick and struggle, and the more he kicked and struggled the more entangled he be- came, and the more entangled he be came the more frightened he became and the more he kicked and strug gle.d.
 Now. net Is the worst thing in the world to kick and struggle in. Pres ently Peter was all wound up In that net. It was wound around him so that after awhile he couldn't kick. He could do nothing but lie there. Peter thought he had had bad frights in his life before, but never had he been so frightened as now. You see, he couldn't understand what had him. He thought 1t was a new and very terrible enemy. The very strange ness of this thing which had caught him added to his fright
 Old Mir. Trouble certainly did have Peter Rabbit, and 1t was all because Peter had listened to Old MT. Temp tation.
 Copyright, 1922. by T. ". Burgess). The next storys "An old Frieni Comes Along"