CHAPTER XXXII 



PETER SAVES A FRIEND AND LEARNS SOMETHING 



PETER RABBIT sat in a thicket of young trees 

 on the edge of the Green Forest. It was warm and 

 Peter was feeling lazy. He had nothing in particu- 

 lar to do, and as he knew of no cooler place he had 

 squatted there to doze a bit and dream a bit. So 

 far as he knew, Peter was all alone. He hadn't 

 seen anybody when he entered that little thicket, 

 and though he had listened he hadn't heard a 

 sound to indicate that he didn't have that thicket 

 quite to himself. It was very quiet there, and 

 though when he first entered he hadn't the least in- 

 tention in the world of going to sleep, it wasn't 

 long before he was dozing. 



Now Peter is a light sleeper, as all little people 

 who never know when they may have to run for 

 their lives must be. By and by he awoke with 

 a start, and he was very wide awake indeed. Some- 

 thing had wakened him, though just what it was he 

 couldn't say. His long ears stood straight up as he 

 listened with all his might for some little sound 

 which might mean danger. His wobbly little nose 

 wobbled very fast indeed as it tested the air for the 

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