CHAPTER XI 



DRUMMERS AND CARPENTERS 



PETER RABBIT was so full of questions that he 

 hardly knew which one to ask first. But Yellow 

 Wing the Flicker didn't give him a chance to ask 

 any. From the edge of the Green Forest there 

 came a clear, loud call of, "Pe-ok! Pe-ok ! 

 Pe-ok!" 



"Excuse me, Peter, there's Mrs. Yellow Wing 

 calling me," exclaimed Yellow Wing, and away 

 he went. Peter noticed that as he flew he went 

 up and down. It seemed very much as if he 

 bounded through the air just as Peter bounds over 

 the ground. "I would know him by the way he 

 flies just as far as I could see him," thought Peter, 

 as he started for home in the dear Old Briar- 

 patch. "Somehow he doesn't seem like a Wood- 

 pecker because he is on the ground so much. I 

 must ask Jenny Wren about him." 



It was two or three days before Peter had a 

 chance for a bit of gossip with Jenny Wren. 

 When he did the first thing he asked was if Yellow 

 Wing is a true Woodpecker. 

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