The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-29
BURGESS BED-
 TIME STORY
By THORNTON W. BURGESS Peter Rabbit Helps Out the Chuck
 Family


 Family
 Help another when you may;
 You may need help yourself some day.
 Peter Rabbit
 Johnny Chuch and Polly Chuc.l and the four little Chucks were homeless That is, they had no nome In which they dared stay. You see, Reddy Fox had dug open their house on the edge of the dear Old Briar- patch and they simply didn'to dare to go back to 1t. They had escaped into the heart of the dear Old Briar patch by means of secret backdoor which not even Peter Rabbit had known about.
 When Peter asked Johnny Chuck what he would do now Johnny had gravely replied that he didn't know. T suppose" said he, i've will have to dig new home. There Is nothing else we can do."
 Yes, there is," snid Peter.
 'What?' demanded Johnny Chuck.
 "You can live in an old house that know of where Reddy Fox cannot get at you and where the babies will De perfectly Sate.
 Johnny looked at Peter as if he were not quite certain whether or not Peter meant just what he said. Then he sat up and looked all around through the dear old Briar-patch. He couldn't see far, because the bushes and the brambles were too thick.
 Where is that old house?" he de- manded.
 Follow me and I'll show you," re- piled Peter, and off he started along one of his private little paths. Johnny Chuck started after him, but Johnny was stout and he didn't find it at all easy to follow Peter. That private little path through the bram- bles was just wide enough for Peter, and not quite enough for Johnny But he managed to get through after 8 while and found Peter waiting for him in a little open space in the very middle of the dear Old Briar-patch.
 "There!' said Peter.
 Johnny looked where Peter was nointing and there. sure enough, was the entrance to an old house. It was a sorry looking old house. The door way was half checked up with leaves and rubbish. It dien't look as if anyone had used 1t for ever and ever so long.
 Isn't that a splendid house?" cried Peter.
 Johnny Chuck pretended not to hear him. Johnny was too honest to say 1t was when it wasn't. and he was too polite to hurt Peter's feel ings. So Johnny pretended not to hear Peters question and asked a fr,e sDfd t,na Ira fhf q house, Peter?" he inquired.
 Peter shook his head. No" said he. Digging house like this -ene would be too much work. This one was here when I first came to live in the dear old Briar-patch. Mrs, Peter and use it once in while in bad weather. It Is really very good house down inside. Of course. 1t would be. because 1t was dug by one of your family"
 Johnny Chuck looked both sur prised and doubtful. May be 1t was, Peter. Maybe it was" said he, but can't imagine member of my fam fly making home in the middle of a big briar-patch."
 But there wasn't any Briar-patch here" declared Peter. I've been told that this house was dug by your t-great- grandfather. and the Briar-patch grew up around 1t after he left. You and Polly and the ba- bies are welcome to this old house for as long as you need 1t. It sort of belongs in your family, you see"
 Thank you" replied Johnny Chuck, and then he whistled for Polly Chuck to come over there. Copyright, 1e022, by T. W. Burgess.) 
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