CHAPTER XXII 



SOME FEATHERED DIGGERS 



PETER RABBIT scampered along down one bank 

 of the Laughing Brook, eagerly watching for a 

 high, gravelly bank such as Grandfather Frog had 

 said that Rattles the Kingfisher likes to make his 

 home in. If Peter had stopped to do a little 

 thinking, he would have known that he was simply 

 wasting time. You see, the Laughing Brook was 

 flowing through the Green Meadows, so of course 

 there would be no high, gravelly bank, because 

 the Green Meadows are low. But Peter Rabbit, 

 in his usual heedless way, did no thinking. He 

 had seen Rattles fly down the Laughing Brook, 

 and so he had just taken it for granted that the 

 home of Rattles must be somewhere down there. 



At last Peter reached the place where the 

 Laughing Brook entered the Big River. Of course 

 he hadn't found the home of Rattles. But now 

 he did find something that for the time being made 

 him quite forget Rattles and his home. Just 

 before it reached the Big River the Laughing 

 Brook wound through a swamp in which were 

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