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hello welcome to storyline online
brought to you by the sag AFTRA
Foundation I'm Rose Byrne and today I'm
going to be reading The Tale of Peter
Rabbit written and illustrated by
Beatrix Potter once upon a time there
were four little rabbits and their names
were Flopsy Mopsy Cottontail and Peter
they lived with their mother in a
sandbank underneath the root of a very
big fir-tree now my dears said the old
mrs. rabbit one morning you may go into
the fields or down the lane but don't go
into mr. McGregor's garden your father
had an accident there he was put in a
pie by mrs. McGregor now run along and
don't get into mischief I am going out
then old mrs. rabbit took a basket and
her umbrella and went through the wood
to the Baker's
she brought a nurse with brown bread and
five currant buns Flopsy Mopsy and
Cottontail who were good little bunnies
went down the lane to gather
blackberries but Peter who was very
naughty ran straight away to mr.
McGregor's garden and squeezed under the
gate first he ate some lettuces and then
some French beans and then he ate some
radishes and then feeling rather sick he
went to look for some parsley but round
the end of the cucumber frame
who should he meet but mr. McGregor mr.
McGregor was on his hands and knees
planting out young cabbages but he
jumped up and ran after Peter waving a
rake and calling out stop thief Peter
was most dreadfully frightened he rushed
all over the garden for he had forgotten
away back to the gate he lost one of his
shoes amongst the cabbages and that
other shoe amongst the potatoes after
losing them he ran on four legs and went
faster so I think he might have got away
all together if he had not unfortunately
run into a gooseberry net and got caught
by the large buttons on his jacket it
was a blue jacket with brass buttons
it was quite new Peter gave himself up
for lost and shed big tears but his sobs
were overheard by 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 up on the top of Peter
but Peter wriggled out just in time
leaving his jacket behind him and rushed
into the toolshed and jumped into a
cannon it would have been a beautiful
thing to hide him if it had not had so
much water in it mr. McGregor was quite
sure that Peter was somewhere in the
toolshed perhaps hidden underneath a
flowerpot he began to turn them over
carefully looking under each
presently he sneezed sure mr. McGregor
was after him in no time and tried to
put his foot upon Peter who jumped out
the window upsetting three plants the
window was too small for mr. McGregor
and he was tired of running after Peter
he went back to his work Peter sat down
to rest he was out of breath trembling
with fright and he had not the least
idea which way to go also he was very
damp with sitting in that can after a
time he began to wonder about going
Liberty Liberty not very fast and
looking all around
he found a door in a wall but it was
locked and there was no room for a fat
little rabbit to squeeze underneath and
old mouse was running in and out over
the stone doorstep carrying killings and
beans to her family in the wood Peter
asked her the way to the gate but she
had such a large pea in her mouth that
she could not answer she only shook her
head at him Peter began to cry
then he tried to find his way straight
across the garden but he became more and
more puzzled presently he came to a pond
where mr. mcgregor filled his water cans
a white cat was staring at some goldfish
she sat very very still but now and then
the tip of her tail twitched as if it
were alive Peter thought it best to go
away without speaking to her he had
heard about cats from his cousin little
Benjamin bunny he went back to Liz the
tall ship but suddenly quite close to
him he heard the noise of the hoe
scratch scritch scritch Peter scuttered
underneath the bushes but presently as
nothing happened he came out and climbed
upon a wheelbarrow and
heaped over the first thing he saw was
mr. McGregor hoeing onions his back was
turned toward Peter and beyond him was
the gate Peter got down very quietly off
the wheelbarrow and started running as
fast as he could go on a straight walk
behind some blackcurrant bushes mr.
McGregor caught sight of him in the
corner but Peter did not care he slipped
underneath the gate and was safe at last
in the wood outside the garden mr.
McGregor hung up the little jacket and
the shoes for a scarecrow to frighten
blackbirds
Peter never stopped running all looked
behind until he got home to the big
fir-tree he was so tired that he flopped
down upon the nice soft sand on the
floor of the rabbit-hole and shut his
eyes his mother was busy cooking she
wondered what he had done with his
clothes
it was the second little jacket a pair
of shoes that Peter had lost in a
fortnight I am sorry to say that Peter
was not very well during the evening his
mother put him to bed and made some
chamomile tea and she gave a dose of it
to Peter one tablespoonful to be taken
at bedtime but Flopsy Mopsy and
Cottontail had bread and milk
faint blackberries for supper
the end
thank you so much for joining me in
reading Peter rubber it's one of my
favorite books growing up as a child did
you know that this book is over a
hundred years old and I chose it because
my mother used to read it to me and if
you can't find a book that you really
love keep looking because there are so
many out there and I promise you you'll
find one that you love
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