CHAPTER XXXIX 



PETER DISCOVERS TWO OLD FRIENDS 



ROUGH Brother North Wind and Jack Frost 

 were not far behind Honker the Goose. In a night 

 Peter Rabbit's world was transformed. It had 

 become a new world, a world of pure white. The 

 last laggard among Peter's feathered friends who 

 spend the winter in the far-away South had hurried 

 away. Still Peter was not lonely. Tommy Tit's 

 cheery voice greeted Peter the very first thing that 

 morning after the storm. Tommy seemed to be in 

 just as good spirits as ever he had been in summer. 



Now Peter rather likes the snow. He likes to 

 run about in it, and so he followed Tommy Tit up 

 to the Old Orchard. He felt sure that he would 

 find company there besides Tommy Tit, and he was 

 not disappointed. Downy and Hairy the Wood- 

 peckers were getting their breakfast from a piece 

 of suet Farmer Brown's boy had thoughtfully 

 fastened in one of the apple-trees for them. 

 Sammy Jay was there also, and his blue coat never 

 had looked better than it did against the pure white 

 of the snow. 



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