Peter Learns Something He Hadn*t Guessed 



from the tiptop of a tall tree, he had known that 

 Mistress Spring really had arrived. 



Peter loves Winsome Bluebird and Welcome 

 Robin, just as everybody else does, and he had 

 known them so long and so well that he thought 

 he knew all there was to know about them. He 

 would have been very indignant had anybody 

 told him he didn't. 



" Those cousins don't look much alike, do 

 they?" remarked Jenny Wren, as she poked her 

 head out of her house to gossip with Peter. 



"What cousins ?" demanded Peter, staring very 

 hard in the direction in which Jenny Wren was 

 looking. 



"Those two sitting on the fence over there. 

 Where are your eyes, Peter?" replied Jenny 

 rather sharply. 



Peter stared harder than ever. On one post 

 sat Winsome Bluebird, and on another post sat 

 Welcome Robin. "I don't see anybody but 

 Winsome and Welcome, and they are not even 

 related," replied Peter with a little puzzled frown. 



"Tut, tut, tut, tut, tut, Peter!" exclaimed 

 Jenny Wren. "Tut, tut, tut, tut, tut! Who 

 told you any such nonsense as that? Of course 

 they are related. They are cousins. I thought 

 everybody knew that. They belong to the same 

 family that Melody the Thrush and all the other 

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