The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-08


 Who lets his stomach. rule his mind
 Himself in trouble soon will find.
 Peter Rabbit.
 My, how good tender young cab bage leaves arel By the time he had eaten two Peter Rabbit had for gotten all his good resolutions. Any way, if he hadn't forgotten them he managed to keep them out of his mind. Two of those young cabbage leaves were only enough to make him feel that he simply must have more. He just couldn't stop with two.
 It was so quiet and still there in Farmer Browns garden that Peter was no longer nervous. It seemed to him that he grew hungrier with every bite. He could think of noth- ing but his Stomach He forgot everything else. He settled right down to eating. He no longer thought of taking just one leaf at time. Some plants he ate right down to the root.
 Now Peter Rabbits stomach is big. 1t takes great deal to fill it. When he has anything he enjoys he is greedy. Yes, sir. Peter Rabbit is greedy. He was greedy now. He hop ped from plant to plant and ate and ate and ate. He had forgotten all about Old MT. Toad He did occasion ally sit up very straight to look and listen, for not even when he is filling his stomach with the things he likes best does Peter forget that danger often comes when least expected. Looking and listening had become habit with Peter. Sometimes he would pull off leaf and eat 1t while he was sitting up and looking and listen ing.
 Peter was sure that no one knew he was in that gardwen. But Peter was mistaken. Boomer, the Nighthawk, had been catching his dinner on fly ing Insects high in the air above Farmer Browns garden. Looking down, he could See all that was going on. He had seen Peter before he en- tered that garden. He had seen Peter poke his head under the fence and there hesitate. He had seen Peter nibble the first cabbage leaf. Then he had seen Peter settle down to fill ing his big stomach.
 Peter Rabbit is fixing to get him. self into trouble" thought Boomer Its no business of mine. Of course noti Just the same l think I'll give him little scare"
 Boomer flew high in the air until he was just above Peter, Then he closed his wings and shot down. Just as he was almost to the ground close to Peter he suddenly checked himself Boom! Such a noise close to Peters head! It was so sudden and unexpected that 1t frightened Peter half out of his wits. With a piece of cabbage leaf still hanging from his mouth Peter made long leap. and away he went across that garden, lipperty- -lipperty-lip. Half way across he recovered his wits. He knew then what had frightened him. He stopped short and looked up angrily. High against the sky he could see swiftly moving form. It was Boomer the Nighthawk. Peter had often heard him make that boom ing sound beSore.
 He knew that undoubtedly Boomer was chuckling to himself because of his success in Frightening him. It made him very angry. but what could he do about it? Nothing. Just nothing at all. So Peter swallowed his anger and once more thought of his stomach. He was over by the lettuce bed now and he decided to try that lettuce. Inside of two min utes he was as busy in that bed of lettuce as he had been among the cabbages. And all the time Old MT. Temptation was chucl1ling, and wondering when his twin brother.