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FEBRUARY 29. 1952

By Thornton W. Burgess

PETER. iagnarr IS WABNED The warning that is sadly needed 1; useless unless it in heeded.

-Old Mother Nature.

A useless warning is wasted math, and all warnings are use- mg when those to whom they H9 given do not heed them. It takes two to make a warning of use. one to give it. and one to heed it.

The news had spread all through the Green Forest that Hooty the Great Horned Owl. one of the tier- cest hunters in all the Green For- ,,g, and Mrs. Hooty had already hggun housekeeping, although Jack Frost was around every night. and mug): Brother Northwindm breath was at times as icy as ever. You see. it was still winter.

"No Birds with any sense would begin nesting as early as ms," declared Yank Yank the Nzitiiaich in Tommy Tit the Chick- adee. as they ate their breakfast at the feeding shelf at one of Farnwr Brown's kitchen windows.

Most of the other feathered foil: agreed with Yank Yank. 'They ro::ldn't see how it was possible to. bring up babies as early in the year as Hooty and Mrs. Hooty would be bringing theirs up. They would be the first Bird babies of the 3831'. but they w?nildn't be the tirst babies. Alreadv Mother Bear had babies in month old. born in the very middle of the winter. But few know of this, for those small cubs had not as yet so much as poked their little noses outside the den. In fact. they had had their eyes open for only a few days.

or course Peter Rabbit over in the dear old Brier-patch heard the news. Those long ears of his pick up most of the news sooner or later. or course right away Peter was curious. He began to wonder if it really was true. or just a rumor. You know, a rumor is a statement which is passed from

one to another, round and round so

Most of the feathered foil: agreed with Yank Yank.

that it grows. yet nobody knows whether or not it is so, and nobody knows how it started.

Now no one knows better than Peter Rabbit that Hooty the Owl and Mrs. Hooty are among the most dangerous of all his enemies. Many a night when Peter has been over in the Green Forest. he has shivered at. the sound of Hooty's hunting call. He knows that there is no one among all the smaller folk of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows whom 1-iooty and Mrs. I-footy would rather catch than a Rabbit. No one has ever given him worse scares. not even Reddy Fox, and Raddy has given him many. So the Green Forest, especially that part or it where Hooty make their home. is no place for Peter to be roaming around.

"Of course it may not be true that Hooty and Mrs. Hooty have begun housekeeping." said Peter to Mrs. Peter. "I just can't believe that anyone would be so foolish as to lay eggs at this time of year."

Mrs. Peter looked at him sharply. "You stay at home." said she.

"01 course. my dear. I didn't say

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I was going anywhere."

But as soon as the Black Sha- dows from the Purple Hills had crept over the Green Meadows that

night Peter slipped out oi: the dear Old Brier-patch when Mrs. Peter wasn't near and away he went, lipperty. lipperty lip. across the Green Meadows. his white tail bob- bing up and down in the dusk, straight to the Green Forest. Cur- iosity was greater than Petcr's con- mon sense. It is that way with a lot of people. And it is this which makes much of the trouble in the Great World.

Peter hunted up big cousin, Jumper the Hare, who lives in the Green Forest. ”Is it true that I-Iooty and Mrs. Hooty are already nesting?" asked Peter.

"I don't know, and I'm not go- ing over there to find out," said Jumper. "What. is more. Cousin Peter, I advise you not to go over there either. It you know when you are well ofl. you will go back to the Old Brier-patch and stay there. If those Owls have eggs now they will soon have babies, ahd I don't know of any worse news for some or us folks than that will be. If there is any one place I am go- ing to keep away from. it is that part. of the Green Forest where those Owls are living. It you've got any sense at all you'll do the same thing." Peter said nothing.

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