CHAPTER XXVI 



PETER GETS A LAME NECK 



FOR several days it seemed to Peter Rabbit that 

 everywhere he went he found members of the 

 Warbler family. Being anxious to know all of 

 them he did his best to remember how each one 

 looked, but there were so many and some of them 

 were dressed so nearly alike that after a while 

 Peter became so mixed that he gave it up as a 

 bad job. Then, as suddenly as they had appeared, 

 the Warblers disappeared. That is to say, most 

 of them disappeared. You see they had only 

 stopped for a visit, being on their way farther 

 north. 



In his interest in the affairs of others of his 

 feathered friends, Peter had quite forgotten the 

 Warblers. Then one day when he was in the 

 Green Forest where the spruce-trees grow, he 

 stopped to rest. This particular part of the Green 

 Forest was low and damp, and on many of the 

 trees gray moss grew, hanging down from the 

 branches and making the trees look much older 

 than they really were. Peter was staring at a 

 hanging bunch of this moss without thinking 

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