Some Merry Seed-Eaters 



very straight and looked this way and looked 

 that way. At first he saw nothing suspicious. 

 Then, crouching flat among the weeds, he got a 

 glimpse of Black Pussy, the cat from Farmer 

 Brown's house. She had been creeping up in the 

 hope of catching one of those happy little seed- 

 eaters. Peter stamped angrily. Then with long 

 jumps he started for the dear Old Briar-patch, 

 lipperty-lipperty-lip, for truth to tell, big as he was, 

 he was a little afraid of Black Pussy. 



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