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Title: The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Author: Beatrix Potter

Release Date: Jan thirty, 2005 [eBook #14838]
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THE TALE OF
PETER RABBIT

BY

BEATRIX POTTER

FREDERICK WARNE

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FREDERICK WARNE

Beginning published 1902

Frederick Warne & Co., 1902

Printed and jump in Swell Britain by William Clowes Limited, Beccles and London

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One time upon a time there were four piffling Rabbits, and their names were—

Flopsy,
Mopsy,
Cotton-tail,
and Peter.

They lived with their Female parent in a sand-bank, underneath the root of a very large fir-tree.

'Now my dears,' said one-time Mrs. Rabbit one morning, 'yous may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an blow in that location; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.'

'Now run along, and don't get into mischief. I am going out.'

Then sometime Mrs. Rabbit took a handbasket and her umbrella, and went through the wood to the bakery's. She bought a loaf of chocolate-brown bread and 5 currant buns.

Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail, who were good little bunnies, went down the lane to gather blackberries:

Just Peter, who was very naughty, ran straight away to Mr. McGregor's garden, and squeezed under the gate!

First he ate some lettuces and some French beans; and then he ate some radishes;

And so, feeling rather ill, he went to expect for some parsley.

Merely round the end of a cucumber frame, whom should he run across but Mr. McGregor!

Mr. McGregor was on his easily and knees planting out young cabbages, merely he jumped up and ran afterwards Peter, waving a rake and calling out, 'Terminate thief!'

Peter was near dreadfully frightened; he rushed all over the garden, for he had forgotten the way back to the gate.

He lost one of his shoes amidst the cabbages, and the other shoe among the potatoes.

After losing them, he ran on 4 legs and went faster, so that I think he might have got away altogether if he had not unfortunately run into a gooseberry cyberspace, and got defenseless past the large buttons on his jacket. It was a blueish jacket with brass buttons, quite new.

Peter gave himself upwardly for lost, and shed big tears; but his sobs were overheard past some friendly sparrows, who flew to him in great excitement, and implored him to exert himself.

Mr. McGregor came up with a sieve, which he intended to pop upon the acme of Peter; but Peter wriggled out merely in fourth dimension, leaving his jacket backside him.

And rushed into the tool-shed, and jumped into a can. Information technology would have been a cute thing to hibernate in, if it had not had so much h2o in it.

Mr. McGregor was quite sure that Peter was somewhere in the tool-shed, perhaps hidden underneath a flower-pot. He began to turn them over carefully, looking under each.

Presently Peter sneezed—'Kertyschoo!' Mr. McGregor was after him in no time.

And tried to put his human foot upon Peter, who jumped out of a window, upsetting 3 plants. The window was too small for Mr. McGregor, and he was tired of running subsequently Peter. He went back to his work.

Peter sabbatum down to rest; he was out of breath and trembling with fright, and he had non the least idea which way to get. Also he was very damp with sitting in that tin.

After a fourth dimension he began to wander nigh, going lippity—lippity—not very fast, and looking all circular.

He plant a door in a wall; but it was locked, and there was no room for a fat little rabbit to squeeze underneath.

An old mouse was running in and out over the stone doorstep, carrying peas and beans to her family in the wood. Peter asked her the way to the gate, merely she had such a large pea in her oral fissure that she could not answer. She simply shook her head at him. Peter began to cry.

Then he tried to discover his fashion directly across the garden, simply he became more and more than puzzled. Presently, he came to a pond where Mr. McGregor filled his h2o-cans. A white true cat was staring at some gilded-fish, she sabbatum very, very nevertheless, merely at present and then the tip of her tail twitched as if it were alive. Peter thought it best to get abroad without speaking to her; he had heard about cats from his cousin, little Benjamin Bunny.

He went back towards the tool-shed, only suddenly, quite close to him, he heard the noise of a hoe—scr-r-ritch, scratch, scratch, scritch. Peter scuttered underneath the bushes. Just presently, equally nothing happened, he came out, and climbed upon a wheelbarrow and peeped over. The first thing he saw was Mr. McGregor hoeing onions. His back was turned towards Peter, and beyond him was the gate!

Peter got downwardly very quietly off the wheelbarrow; and started running as fast as he could go, along a direct walk behind some blackness-currant bushes.

Mr. McGregor caught sight of him at the corner, merely Peter did not care. He slipped underneath the gate, and was rubber at last in the wood outside the garden.

Mr. McGregor hung up the piffling jacket and the shoes for a scare-crow to frighten the blackbirds.

Peter never stopped running or looked backside him till he got dwelling house to the big fir-tree.

He was so tired that he flopped down upon the overnice soft sand on the floor of the rabbit-pigsty and close his eyes. His female parent was busy cooking; she wondered what he had done with his apparel. It was the second picayune jacket and pair of shoes that Peter had lost in a fortnight!

I am lamentable to say that Peter was not very well during the evening.

His mother put him to bed, and fabricated some camomile tea; and she gave a dose of it to Peter!

'One table-spoonful to be taken at bed-time.'

But Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail had breadstuff and milk and blackberries for supper.

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