CHAPTER XXXV 



r A BUTCHER AND A HUMMER 



NOT far from the Old Orchard grew a thorn-tree 

 which Peter Rabbit often passed. He never had 

 paid particular attention to it. One morning 

 he stopped to rest under it. Happening to look 

 up, he saw a most astonishing thing. Fastened on 

 the sharp thorns of one of the branches were three 

 big grasshoppers, a big moth, two big caterpillars, 

 a lizard, a small mouse and a young English 

 Sparrow. Do you wonder that Peter thought he 

 must be dreaming? He couldn't imagine how 

 those creatures could have become fastened on 

 those long sharp thorns. Somehow it gave him an 

 uncomfortable feeling and he hurried on to the Old 

 Orchard, bubbling over with desire to tell some one 

 of the strange and dreadful thing he had seen in the 

 thorn-tree. 



As he enterd the Old Orchard in the far corner 

 he saw Johnny Chuck sitting on his doorstep and 

 hurried over to tell him the strange news. Johnny 

 listened until Peter was through, then told him 

 quite frankly that never had he heard of such a 

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